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Week 5 - Collaborative Connections

 What is the purpose of a collaborative connection?


The purpose of a collaborative connection is to meet people with similar goals and/or interests in order to create bonds to help each other achieve their goals. Collaborative connections, as I interpret it, a community of like-minded people reaching out to others just like themselves on social media and creating bonds and sub-communities. People connecting online and supporting each other in a positive way and thus working together to achieve a common goal. For example, a group of cancer survivors or friends and families of cancer patients can form a sub-community online to connect with each other. Consoling and comforting those in times of great hard-ships, and maybe organizing events to help raise awareness or money for families in dire need.


If you decided to make a collaborate connection online what would happen?


Ideally, what I would want to happen would be to maybe create a connection online, I would want people to of course be helpful and mindful to the community. For example, continuing with the cancer community example, ideally, I would want the community to be compassionate and understanding. When a family is struggling financially I would then see if people would want to help in arranging a fundraiser in order to help the family in distress. When a family is grieving over the death of a family member due to cancer, I would want to set up a group event in order to help console the family and to give them a second family to lean on.


The purpose of the assignment is to understand about collaborative connections and try to explain why they are important in today's world.


The key question at the heart of the assignment is if you could start your own collaborative connection community, what would your cause be?

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  1. AnonymousSeptember 30, 2021 at 7:49 PM

    Your statement had relevance when you said, "Collaborative connections, as I interpret it, a community of like-minded people reaching out to others just like themselves on social media and creating bonds and sub-communities," because that's what I notice when I get on social media. I see a lot of different communities and people creating a community or joining a community that they share common interests in.

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