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### 10. Community building is in the small things: rituals are important
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-It's funny how so many of these
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## A few runner ups (that didn't make the list)
- What you share is as important as how you share
- Openness alone isn't enough (what about translation and accessibility?)
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I love connecting with people whose work and perspectives complement (or conversely, challenge) my own.
-(Feel free to schedule a chat using my calendly. You should receive a generated link for jitsi, an open video conferencing platform).
+Feel free to schedule a chat using my calendly. You should receive a generated link for jitsi, an open video conferencing platform.
-- Are.na: [Anne Lee Steele](https://www.are.na/anne-lee-steele)
-- Bluesky: [@aleesteele.bsky.social](https://bsky.app/profile/aleesteele.bsky.social)
-- Instagram: [@anneleesteele](https://www.instagram.com/anneleesteele/)
-- Linkedin: [Anne Lee Steele](https://www.linkedin.com/in/anneleesteele/)
-- Mastodon: [@aleesteele@post.lurk.org](https://post.lurk.org/@aleesteele)
-- Threads: [anneleesteele](https://www.threads.com/@anneleesteele)
-- X/Twitter: [@aleesteele](twitter.com/aleesteele)
-- YouTube: [@aleesteele](https://www.youtube.com/@aleesteele)
+If you're interested in following my work at other speeds, I can also be found on various platforms. Some profiles I update reluctantly or rarely (if at all) and others, I am more active on.
-Otherwise, send me an email at [aleesteele@gmail.com](mailto:aleesteele@gmail.com).
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+🌱 Are.na: [Anne Lee Steele](https://www.are.na/anne-lee-steele)
+🌱 Bluesky: [@aleesteele.bsky.social](https://bsky.app/profile/aleesteele.bsky.social)
+🌱 Instagram: [@anneleesteele](https://www.instagram.com/anneleesteele/)
+🌱 Linkedin: [Anne Lee Steele](https://www.linkedin.com/in/anneleesteele/)
+🌱 Mastodon: [@aleesteele@post.lurk.org](https://post.lurk.org/@aleesteele)
+🌱 Threads: [anneleesteele](https://www.threads.com/@anneleesteele)
+🌱 X/Twitter: [@aleesteele](twitter.com/aleesteele)
+🌱 YouTube: [@aleesteele](https://www.youtube.com/@aleesteele)
+
+Otherwise, please send me an email at [aleesteele@gmail.com](mailto:aleesteele@gmail.com).
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I approach most things as an ethnographer first and a community-builder second. In recent years, I’ve turned to media art to reimagine new forms of public engagement, though I remain a writer at heart.
-In 2025, I founded STUDIO SANSHIN as the home for my work in public interest technology, culture and research, which you can [explore here](https://www.aleesteele.com/services).
+In 2025, I founded STUDIO SANSHIN as the home for my work in public interest technology, culture and research, which you can [explore here](https://www.aleesteele.com/services). You're also welcome to join me on an [internet infrastructure walk](https://luma.com/internet-intra-walks) or read my writing on [the poetic web](https://www.aleesteele.com/writing).
-Over a little less than a decade, I’ve contributed to a variety of initiatives spanning open infrastructures, responsible technology, and cultural engagement – through roles, fellowships, collaborations, and more at the Alan Turing Institute, British Red Cross, Dracopoulos iDeas Lab, Internet Society, Missing Maps, Open Knowledge Foundation, Open Seeds, School of Commons, Software Sustainability Institute, Transparency Lab, Transmediale, The Turing Way, and Wikimedia Deutschland’s Unlock Accelerator. My previous research on digital humanitarism on OpenStreetMap can be found here. I remain an organiser of the FOSDEM Open Research Devroom, the largest open source conference in Europe.
+Over a little less than a decade, I’ve contributed to a variety of initiatives spanning open infrastructures, responsible technology, and cultural engagement – through roles, fellowships, collaborations, and more at the Alan Turing Institute, British Red Cross, Dracopoulos iDeas Lab, Internet Society, Missing Maps, Open Knowledge Foundation, Open Seeds, School of Commons, Software Sustainability Institute, Transparency Lab, Transmediale, The Turing Way, and Wikimedia Deutschland’s Unlock Accelerator. My previous research on digital humanitarism on OpenStreetMap can be found here. I remain an organiser of the FOSDEM Open Research Devroom, the largest open source conference in Europe.
I hold an MA from the Graduate Institute, Geneva and a BA from Columbia University. When I’m not online, I’m usually outside.
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-
+
-I recently started a newsletter called **"Field Notes from the Internet"** – a more structured space for sharing upcoming events, workshops, interviews, and news from the poetic web.
+I recently started **"Field Notes from my Desktop"** as a more structured space for sharing upcoming events, workshops, interviews, and news from the poetic web.
-In many ways, it gathers the best and most relevant parts of my blog and other platforms. I'm still getting the hang of the right rhythm and frequency, but aim for once a quarter.
+For years, I wrote long emails to friends and family. While I don’t do that much anymore, I still try to write in public as a slower alternative (or companion) to the stream-of-consciousness of social media, or the informality of a blog.
-You're welcome to subscribe here:
+From 2021 to 2022, I maintained a digital garden (now archived). These days, most of my real-time notes and inspiration live on [Are.na](https://www.are.na/anne-lee-steele) and Instagram. As I've written [here](https://twitter.com/aleesteele/status/1687410000329678851) and [here](https://post.lurk.org/@aleesteele/110830839366429110), I use these more social spaces as places for for thinking out loud and gathering ideas.
+While I'm still getting the hang of the right rhythm and frequency for this newsletter (which I also archive below), I aim for once a quarter. All data is managed through Buttondown.