Comfort has won, and most formality is gone. But the freedom of informality comes at a cost. Formality is the bulwark against some of the nastiest human impulses, and acts as a vaccine against our most dangerous tendency: forming in-groups and out-groups.
From We need highly formal rituals in order to make life more democratic– Aeon
✍️ Blogs, Articles, Resources and News
- Is there a magic number for community viability? – Chris Pattison
- How Covid-19 is Changing the Nature of Access in Virtual Gatherings – Priya Parker / New York Time Events
- Building Remote Relationships – Open Source Capital
- Why Every Organization Should Adopt a Community Strategy – Eric J. Montijo
- I’m not weird – Home Game Comic
- The 6 builders who will thrive in the new world – Brianne Kimmel
- Surviving This Pandemic Isn’t Enough – The Atlantic
- Popcorn Q&A: Mia Quagliarello of Flipboard, the Burning Man Project, and "Get Together" podcast – Get Together
🎙️ Podcasts
- Jennifer Erzen on the (Not So) Secret Powers of Community – Conversations with Community Managers
- Bitesize: Angela Brown of The Linux Foundation discusses what contributes to the energy of events – Jono Bacon
- Rethinking Big Ideas: Priya Parker on Gathering Apart – The Next Big Idea
- EP55: Completely Rethinking Community w/ Bunker Labs – The C2C Podcast
- Engagement That Scales – Podcast Episode #7: Harold Jarche on Working Smarter – The Community Roundtable
- 4: Somebody’s going to eat your lunch – In Before The Lock
- How HER Puts Its LGBTQ+ Community’s Safety First – Community Signal
- Bitesize: Jeff Atwood, Co-Founder of Discourse and StackOverflow, on platform responsibility. – Jono Bacon
🗓️ Events
Upcoming events, let me know if I’ve missed any…
- Vanilla Conversations Spring 2020 – Vanilla Forums
- CommChat Virtual Summit – Comm.Chat
🐦 Tweets
As a community builder for @IndieHackers I'm always asking myself:
— Rosie Sherry (@rosiesherry) May 18, 2020
How can I help #indiehackers thrive?
One way I have been experimenting with this is through Tweets that promote their hard work (products).
Virtually every tweet gets us a thank you and much ❤️ thrown our way. pic.twitter.com/ZkzTVuH0Ag
I like how the placeholder text on @IndieHackers reminds you to be a nice person 😊 pic.twitter.com/X3074WAL1f
— Davis Baer (@mynameis_davis) May 14, 2020
