"There were certain things that I did intentionally to help influence a certain behavior; Advocacy. As some of the criticism was documented, a small percentage of "nodes" in the network became activated and advocated on our behalf. Advocacy was the desired behavior. The desired outcome included things like Twitter being pressured to shut down an account which was impersonating me. That was a favorable outcome. Behaviors lead to outcomes—don't forget that."
The first post for this new version of this blog spoke about obstacles placed before people that keep them from participating in their government, be it local, regional or national. The truth is that we can also do it to ourselves, whether as professionals that the community depends upon or as members of that community.