Seneca, Art Blocks and Sustainable Communities
By Richard Kim
Lots of food for thought to noodle on in this post. 🍜
One structural thing contributing to that is the proliferation of channels. There's no clear "town square." Every human community on earth is organized around a water feature and a town square. Without that place, different groups do not intersect naturally. When we build virtual worlds, we generally structure them with a single onramp aiming at that square....
- Jason Miller pitched a free-speech utopia. He got a moderation nightmare — Tim Miller
- The Inner Ring of The Internet — Ali Montag
- The Community Builder’s Guide to Member Research Surveys — Carrie Melissa Jones
- How To Use Data to Prioritize In Your Community: A Case Study from FeverBee — Richard Millington
- How To Improve Your Community Engagement Skills — Richard Millington
- How To Conduct a Mid-Year Review of Your Community — Jenny Weigle
- Q&A with Sari Azout on the future of media, community-driven knowledge networks, and the ownership economy — Femstreet
- Social Media Is as Social as You Make It — Ian Vanagas
- Facebook, Google, TikTok and Twitter make unprecedented commitments to tackle the abuse of women on their platforms — Web Foundation
- Calling In for Community Managers: an Introduction — Angela Jin
- The great unbundling of local news — Anne Schulz, NiemanLabs
- What If Regulating Facebook Fails? — Wired
- Community Planning Like a Professional Athlete — Patrick McCrann
🎙 Podcasts
- Community Magic, Asset Based Community Development & why People Work for Free with Richard Millington — Masters of Community
- The Power of Community Building with Richard Millington — Meetup
- How to prepare for a membership launch - with Damian Erskine — Membership Maker
- Real Community in a D&D World with Alaina Forte — Meetup
- EP101: Inclusive Fan Communities w/ John Todd — The Community Corner
🗞 News
- Neighborhood social network Nextdoor is going public — Axios
- Hopin Expands Event Marketing Suite With Acquisition of Attendify — Hopin
- Slack is getting a Discord-like audio feature called 'Huddles' — Engadget
- Twitter loses immunity over user-generated content in India — Reuters
- Facebook’s failure to pay attention to non-English languages is allowing hate speech to flourish — The Conversation
- YouTube’s algorithm fuelling harmful content, study says — EURACTIV
🐦 Tweets
Any community, online or not, needs to understand and carefully design the participation and status rewards.@ali_montag nails this concept and it’s repercussions in her latest piece. A fragment below:
— rafa0 (@rafathebuilder) July 10, 2021
" What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured"
— vyara ndejuru (@vyara) July 9, 2021
~ Kurt Vonnegut
Two of the biggest causes of community drama are present here:
— Evan Hamilton (@evanhamilton) July 10, 2021
1) Not consulting your community about a change (and assuming it won't be controversial)
2) The community not having full context (and assuming something is ill-intentioned/widespread)https://t.co/ODfZyToIhI
