A Circle of Gifts
An oldie but a goodie. By Charles Eisensten.
Community is woven from gifts. Unlike today's market system, whose built-in scarcity compels competition in which more for me is less for you, in a gift economy the opposite holds. Because people in gift culture pass on their surplus rather than accumulating it, your good fortune is my good fortune: more for you is more for me. Wealth circulates, gravitating toward the greatest need. In a gift community, people know that their gifts will eventually come back to them, albeit often in a new form. Such a community might be called a "circle of the gift."
What’s the deal with Audience Engagement?
Erin Mikail
No one seems to really know what this means exactly, and it often just lumps into all of these things.
Issue #22: Belonging and Mutualism
From the Future of Belonging
We are all in this community, society, country, and planet together. For any one of us to be free, we needs to endeavor continuously to work for us all to be free. Our separateness is a bit of an illusion as this pandemic continues to show us how mutualism can carve a path to freedom through rather than in spite of our connectedness. Designing for belonging is a way to reinforce this connectedness and move toward resilience.
One Word Spared Norway From COVID-19 Disaster
Dugnad (pronounced doog-nahd); a Norwegian cultural tradition where community members work together towards a common goal, for the greater good for all.
Chartered Waters
From SuperFeed
We stress, these are assumptions based on personal observation and experience.
Why do you think this community has died?
From Designer News.
Always interesting to see people discuss why a community has died within said community. 🤷🏽♀️
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- Healing Societal Division Through Community and Technology with Lisa Conn - Create Community 🎧
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- Community Cultivation – A Field Guide - Educopia
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- CMX Summit speaker applications are open - CMX
- Three Metrics Every Community Manager Should Track - Noele Flowers
- Why You Need A Community Manager (and what happens if you don’t replace one) - Richard Millington
- Diversity & Inclusion with Emma Irwin - CHAOSS 🎧
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- What makes a Facebook groups “off the charts” active 👩🏻💻 Lindsay Russell, Facebook - GetTogether 🎧
- The Internet of Beefs - Ribbon Farm 🐄
Diving into some research on all things #community this weekend:
— gaby.eth (@gaby_goldberg) July 31, 2020
- Can brands create their own communities?
- How can you curate an online community?
- Can you scale intimacy?
Let's create a thread! Let me know your thoughts and tag your favorite brand communities below: ⬇️
Community health is rarely "how many members we have in the community"
— Erin Mikail Staples (@erinmikail) July 31, 2020
Community health is closer tied to:
- are members connected to one another
- is your community tied to a purpose they can believe in?
- do members feel valued to be there?
Large communities = not always monetizable
— GREG ISENBERG (@gregisenberg) July 31, 2020
Loyal communities = highly monetizable
When you get to minimum loyal community (MLC), very sustainable businesses are created
🙏 We need community now, more than ever...
— phlywheel (@phlywheel) July 30, 2020
"Understanding what a marketing community might look like was hard. (What do communities even talk about during a crisis?) But the goals were so clear that I was able to grow my community management skills." https://t.co/ilGR8qdZFT
Good community management advice in here. https://t.co/mtGIwhPe9A
— Derek Powazek (@fraying) July 30, 2020
"Community is an intentional act. That's not something you just fall into" @NifMuhammad
— Bailey Richardson (@baileyelaine) July 27, 2020
Talking about communities as people who share a belief, affiliation, association... but no common actions we lose the power of specificity & offer no clarity abt what it takes to join one. https://t.co/wYlD4BUuTy
