The Community Clock
By Ian Vanagas
Communities, at their core, have a series of events that keep them moving. These events can be news, rituals, actions, announcements, and more. They create a community clock (imagine the numbers replaced by these events), and keep the community ticking. Without them, the community dies.
100 Days of Community Notion Resource
Over at Orbit, where I work, we launched a Notion resource based on curated Tweets from a Twitter hashtag. Part of this is about focusing in on creating value. Another part is a bit of an exploration on how hashtags can be used to build community.
🌤 Rosieland
- CGC (Community Generated Content) is the new UGC (User Generated Content)
- Creativity in Community [Pro]
- Complex Movements [Pro]
✍️ Articles
- How to build a Decentralized Social Network? — Super Connected
- The Community Clock — Ian Vanagas
- Audience engagement is not community engagement. We need more of the latter. — Zocalo Public Square
- Building Classroom Community, Even When We’re All Alone — Marta Bashovski
- Familiarity and Belonging — Simon Sarris
- Notion, a community tool for everyone? — Jephtah Abu
- A Labor Movement for the Platform Economy — Li Jin
- Aligning before learning — Harold Jarche
- The Real Social Dilemma — Luke Burgis
🎙 Podcasts
- Humanizing Your Community with Seth Godin — Masters of Community
- The Unique Potential of Online Summits — a Roundtable feat. Rob Gelb — Community Experience
🗞 News
🐦 Tweets
“It seems valuable to build a few more platforms for networked software that are open, not-owned. Preferably, as many as possible.”
— Andrew Claremont (@andymci) October 2, 2021
Diggin’ this concept of building something adjacent to the current web, versus trying to replace it: https://t.co/kqeq9jnRsb
Grateful to interview @KatVellos for the Community Experience Podcast today! Her new 2022 Better Conversations Calendar is amazing:https://t.co/2UU2eeyNDY #tweet100 pic.twitter.com/3Z8CoqWkeP
— Tony Bacigalupo (@tonybgoode) September 30, 2021
Community for web3 is broken.
— Diana Morgan 🪐 (@grassrootscmgr) September 29, 2021
The toxicity, biased decisions, & mismanaged expectations lead non-crypto natives down terrible paths.
All roads lead back to poor people management & brands trying to force interaction instead of communal sharing.
Here is what I'd like to change:
Do you really own your NFT?
— Bill Johnston (@billjohnston) September 29, 2021
Net: Prolly nothttps://t.co/8nhnijHVy6
The more freedom you give your community, the more creativity & passion you get. This can also bring chaos & misalignment.
— Evan Hamilton (@evanhamilton) September 28, 2021
The more you restrict & gain control, the more you lose that creativity & passion.
There's no perfect equation, but you need to make intentional choices.
It’s so hard to sustain a strong community, especially at scale, for many years.
— Ryan Hoover (@rrhoover) September 23, 2021
People inevitably “age out” as their priorities or interests change. Early adopters move on to new “shiny objects”.
Concept: what if your community newspaper was re-centered around a community dashboard?
— Balaji Srinivasan (@balajis) September 28, 2021
It addresses the ADD aspect of news judgment. Rather than random stories every day, your community would instead track metrics over time, like $ saved or time working out. And improve them.
As they say, a great community has value and values
— David ☕ (@cupazhou) September 27, 2021
The good news: I'm hearing people start to realize that existing platforms (Facebook, Slack, Discord) are not the most ideal places to host business communities.
— Evan Hamilton (@evanhamilton) September 26, 2021
The bad news: I'm hearing some confusion about whether a platform like Vanilla or Circle have the same downsides.
