What Is Community?
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What Is Community?
Precipitated by declining participation in civic organizations and increased distrust of institutions, community is increasingly something we choose. And, with the entire [digital] world at our fingertips, place is no longer a limiting factor. As a result, online communities are thriving.
Fitt Insider • Issue No. 103: What is Community Anyway?
To create something that others want to join and support, we have to remember a core tenet: communities function best and are most durable when they’re helping members to be more successful in some way in a connected and dynamic world.
Charles Vogl • The Art of Community: Seven Principles for Belonging
The Community Community
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andrea and added
For much of history, if you asked someone to define “community,” they’d give you an answer that involved a physical location — a school, synagogue, church. Today, the word community invokes something more intimate: identity. It’s not something we’re born into, but something we choose.
Sari Azout • #58 friends > communities
What is community?
handbook.community-weaving.org
Sam Liebeskind and added
Before a community can begin to self-govern, it needs to see itself as a community—through participants telling stories about themselves and having shared experiences.
Nathan Schneider • Governable Spaces: Democratic Design for Online Life
Sarah Wong added
communities function best and are most durable when they’re helping members to be more successful in some way in a connected and dynamic world.
Charles Vogl • The Art of Community: Seven Principles for Belonging
Lael Johnson and added
communities are simply groups of people who keep coming together over what they care about. The most vibrant communities offer members a chance to act on their passions with one another.