Community Engagement
how to engage a community
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Community Engagement
The Business of Belonging: How to Make Community your Competitive Advantage
David Spinks • 15 highlights
amazon.com
Why we stopped trying to engage passive community members—the 3 circles model.
Fabian Pfortmüllermedium.com
In the 25 years I’ve been studying communities, the most depressing part is that people still start communities (social apps, sites, any company that lets people talk to each other) without thinking through who, exactly, is going to manage the community and how. But it would be ridiculous to start a bar without a bartender.
A community isn’t a garden, it’s a bar.
Maybe it’s time we grow out of the idealism of the first 30 years of the web and start looking at what we’re really doing online with each other. It’s not always healthy, but we do it anyway. It’s something that adults do because we have a deep need to gather and talk, but we can’t include everyone all the time. And maybe sometimes it gets too... See more