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The Holy Grail of Building Communities: Developing a Strong Sense of Community
Richard Millingtonmoz.com
Mark Schaefer - Belonging to The Brand
youtube.comDon’t work in community. Seriously. I never meant to become a community manager. Most of us didn’t. We fell into it sideways, like walking through the wrong door at a party and suddenly finding ourselves responsible for babysitting someone’s forgotten & drunk cousin.The job is a messy tapestry of contradictions. You'll build fences designed to be... See more
Paul Venuto • feed updates
Stop trying to make social networks succeed, stop dreaming of a universal network. Instead, invest in your own communities. Help them make long-term, custom and sustainable solutions. Try to achieve small and local successes instead of pursuing an imaginary universal one. It will make you happier.
It will make all of us happier.
It will make all of us happier.
Stop Trying to Make Social Networks Succeed
Groupvibe | Make Friends & Meet New People
groupvibe.com
I say you have to learn how to be with and a part of something in order to know how to be alone. I think it is only out of a deep anchoring in community that one can ever be free to explore the solitary.
Cole Arthur Riley • This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories That Make Us
Craft Forward
craft-forward.com
The dilemma of chasing spectacle versus achieving lasting impact by starting small and cultivating deep, sustainable engagement.
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It's interesting to think about if you're playing the game of spectacle, there's only sort of one path forward, which is more or bigger. Yeah. And mischief trapped ourselves in that own game. Like we've, we built the game, we designed a game. We want it because we're a player of one. And then we essentially are trapped by the game unless we
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“I think you can only really get staying power if you focus on a relationship with a small group for as long as you can possibly hold on and then a little bit more, and then maybe, maybe you have a chance of something with like really significant staying power.”
Audience: consumes, collates, collects
Community: contributes, cooperates, connects
There’s a big difference.
Milly’s building: generalist.worldtwitter.com