Tag: Online Community
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Reasons to be Optimistic About the Future of Community Practice
The community “industry” is a mess. Good thing we are pretty good at community.
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Will Generative AI Make Popular Culture’s Self-Referential Tendencies Exponentially Worse?
“All of pop culture — be it movies, music or TV — is now engaged in a delicious orgy of self-consumption.” Peter McKnight — “Is pop culture eating itself to death?”The Globe and Mail, July 31, 2000 The promise of artificial intelligence(1) is that it will usher in a technological revolution that will transform industries,…
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Community Strategy Design
I was first introduced to the concept of a design process in my sophomore year of college. I was taking a sculpture class and we were preparing to start on our self-portrait busts. Our professor had us read “The Universal Traveler” by Koberg & Bagnell, follow the process they describe in the book, and keep…
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Promoting & Sustaining the Value of Community Across the Organization (Community Value Part 4)
Note: this is the fourth and final post in a series about community value. If you missed “A Perspective on Community Value“, “Understanding the Community Opportunity“, or “Developing Community Strategy, Goals & Measurements“ I’d recommend starting there. In many organizations, community’s territory is often limited to an ill-defined middle ground between support and marketing functions. This…
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A Perspective on Community Value (Part 1 of a Series)
This is the first of a four-part series on the topic of community value. The series is based in large part, on the output of a series of small-group working sessions and primary research that began in 2018, as well as learnings and observations from my career. A Personal Perspective I’ve worked with some form…
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Developing a Transformational Community to Lift Families Out of Poverty with Jorge Blandón
Leaders often use the word “transformation” to describe a small or incremental change, but the definition is “a thorough or dramatic change in form or appearance”. When using the phrase “Transformational Communities”, my intention is to define these communities as having a profound and thorough change effect on participating stakeholders. One of the most interesting…