Feb 12, 11:57 pm: Do you have a beginner's mind?

Because it’s the most important thing in your social web toolbox.

I do a lot of talking about this — how to assemble the tools and build the skills to get involved in the social web and I’ve tried to frame it in a couple of different ways (1, 2, 3). But really it comes down to the beginner’s mind.

Open and questioning.

A conversation implies that you don’t know everything and that you have to learn. And you learn that in a back and forth.  Otherwise, it’s instruction or lecturing or a message I’m trying to get out of my mouth before you hang up on me. 

But to really participate in the social web you have to want to exchange. This shows up as fun — movie comparisons on Facebook — but it is a attitude that extends to really making a wiki work for a group.

How do you explain this?  How do engage in this when you talk to people?  How does this attitude get built?

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