Creating Community
April 20th, 2007
One of the things that was a predominant theme at last week’s Museums & The Web was about developing Web 2.0 (with a focus on community building). I can’t find my notes so I can’t give attribution (whoever you were smart person), but one simple statement made was along the lines of:
Community grows where there is a community
A simple reminder that you can’t just expect a community to emerge or simply seed the beginnings of a community, but you actually need to be engaged and help foster that community. You need to keep tending it in order to see any tangible results for quite some time before it can self-sustain.
And, having been a member of any number of BBSs (what’s the plural of BBS?) a decade or two ago, that was always the case. People needed to work at creating community.