Streams, campfires, and gardens are helpful analogies for how different digital spaces can encourage behaviors. All three are needed to foster a healthy, happy, and collaborative environment. The unkept brush can be helpful as well, so long as it's not relied upon too heavily for organization and structure - **Streams**: *Fast-paced information and communication in chronological order.* - Best used for project-specific: quick updates, questions, answers, and consensus building. - Good for fast dispersement of info, but lacks permanence. - Chatrooms - Messaging apps - Slack - MS Teams - Discord - Email\* - Content feeds - Social media - LinkedIn - Facebook - RSS readers - **Campfires**: *Communal spaces where we share and receive ideas, build relationships, and teach internal knowledge.* - Best used for objective-specific: announcements, high level updates, ethos building, team introductions, goals and expectations. - Campfires leave behind a footprint. Char. - Mediums: - Video conference - Teams - Zoom - Blogs - Company blog - Founder blog - Using email as a blog - Newsletters - Email\* - Text and Messaging - Shared documents & folders - Google Docs - Office 365 - Calendar apps - Comments - Forums - **Gardens**: *Inter-connected and ever-evolving spaces used to plant, grow, and prune information— internal knowledge, resources, and governing principles* - Best used for resource development and discovery. - Topography molded through deliberate curation. - Mediums: - Company wikis - Notion - Intranets - Sharepoint - Websites - **Unkept Brush**: *Massive unorganized spaces used as a ground for knowledge, resources, and assets. - Best used sparingly and as an archive: The unkept brush is often the last line of defense against knowledge and resource loss. - Mediums: - File folders - Bookmarks - Flagged emails - Website bookmarks - Desktop folders - Email attachments - Emailing yourself - Documents - Word doc with passwords - Excel sheet with asset info \*Used occasionally and incorrectly.