Co-creation is crucial. But most communities still fall and rise with the leadership of a few.
Fabian Pfortmüllermedium.com
Co-creation is crucial. But most communities still fall and rise with the leadership of a few.
Amateurs try to manage a community, but great leaders create more leaders. Nearly every challenge of building a community can be met by asking yourself, “How do I achieve this by working with my people, not doing it for them?” In other words, approach community-building as progressive acts of collaboration—doing more with others every step of the w... See more
Kevin Huynh • Get Together Book | How to Build a Community With Your People
Growing a community isn’t about management. It’s about developing leaders. With their help, your community will affect more people and sustain itself longer than you could have managed on your own.
Kai Elmer Sotto • Get Together: How to build a community with your people
The work of building a great community goes much farther beyond simply moderating a Slack group. A great community needs regular events and meetups. They need ways for leaders to step up and invent their own traditions, create their own events, and run their own sub-groups. Leading a community requires making it easy for members to become advocates... See more
Linus Lee • The future of community: a future for communities | thesephist.com
Although communities feel magical, they won’t come together by magic. In this early stage, there’s no substitute for a courageous leader (like you!) who takes the first step.
Kai Elmer Sotto • Get Together: How to build a community with your people
Alongside technical tools, we need ways of defining and explaining social norms and expectations about contribution and value sharing. We need collective mechanisms for decision-making about shared assets, that make people feel heard while recognising the limitations, constraints and realities of their maintenance. We need people and organisations ... See more