Imitation as Taste
Ana Andjelic
In addition to being a great mechanism in learning how to orient, belong, and present oneself in the world, imitation is responsible for social cohesion. Social media platform TikTok is both a great metaphor and an actual example of this: its Challenges establish a sense of community, in the same way that streaming of the same music or entertainment creates a temporary bond among strangers.
#110 Jim Collins: Relationships vs. Transactions
Farnam St
"Bill believed that people break into two buckets. There are those that come at life with a series of transactions. And there are people come at life with building relationships. Bill believed the only way to have a really great life, you can have a successful life doing transactions, but the only way to have a really great life is on the relationship side."
More in this week of community...
- Gravity is the key to community growth — Rosie Sherry / Orbit
- How Framer started with community from day one — Build With Users
- Lessons from 11 years of community at Metafilter — Jeff Atwood
- Changing the Language Around Community — Marjorie Anderson
- How to quit Facebook without quitting Facebook — Kaitlyn Tiffany, Vox
- Routines vs Rituals — Tatiana Figueiredo
- Creating joyful moments in communities. Uncommunity #21 — Uncommunity
- Social Media Safety Index — Glaad
🗞 News
- New rules adopted for quick and smooth removal of terrorist content online — European Parlament
- Announcing the Discord Moderator Academy Exam — Discord
- Clubhouse comes to Android after more than a year of iOS exclusivity — The Verge
- Epic Games buys artist community ArtStation, drops commissions to 12% — TechCrunch
- Higher Logic Acquires Vanilla: Better Together — Higher Logic
🎧 Podcasts & Videos
- 3 Best Practices of a Great Community Builder with Joe Huber — Growth Marketing Today
- EP92: How To Manage Localized Community Chapters w/ Emilie Dellecker — The Community Corner
- Lessons from Community Memory, the First Publicly Available Social Media System — Community Signal
- Information vs. Belonging (and the value of the debate format) — Richard Millington & David Spinks
- How to curate your community resources with a digital garden — The Communities Show
I hate the term "community building."
— Ethan Brooks (@damn_ethan) May 4, 2021
It used to mean something, before it was popular. Now it's just a buzzword.
It's also poorly defined.
So here's a framework that takes the mystery out of it. I call it the "pyramid of priority" (PoP).
It works like this...🧵 pic.twitter.com/DtkFC1vNul
A lot of people thrive as community managers because their work becomes a soothing balm on early life experiences of bullying, rejection, or feeling invisible. Hey, same.
— Carrie Melissa Jones (@caremjo) May 6, 2021
I'm just here to remind you it's fine if someone doesn't like you. It may even be a sign of your integrity.
Using the nesting doll approach to facilitate online meetings is an antidote to the inherently imbalanced way in which people naturally share space (governed by racist, sexist, ageist and ableist notions of whose voices deserve to be heard over others) https://t.co/tc8NF1TxEp
— Morgan Evans (@NeonMorgan) May 4, 2021
John Cacioppo's seminal research clearly demonstrates it's a state of mind. You can be highly connected, but feel totally lonely.
— Phil Santos (@philsantosnet) May 4, 2021
Source for further reading: https://t.co/Hr0dRheOAQ
It's not about Celebrity, it's about Community.
— Farokh is in Denver (🎙, 🎙) (@farokh) April 23, 2021
I've said it before and I will say it again: social media 3.0 doesn't care about how famous you are, it cares about what your input in the community and the culture is.
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