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Community Building 101: The Basics
On Communities
Communities are inherently different from networking organizations. Communities are networks with shared ideals or demographics. People concentrate on building relationships rather than using each other.
Nevertheless, communities form around untapped desires and you’ll have the opportunity to monetize it, expand it, or at the very least improve your personal network.
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Community Engagement Cycle
In contrast to existing communities, new ones lack a social identity, an established way of participation and assurances of reward or value. These are the foundation of the Community Engagem...
Why People Sign Up To A Community
- The community aligns with their identity.
- They trust that the community will bring them value.
- They know how to participate.
- There is a reward (intrinsic or extrinsic) for their participation.
Build the Foundation of Community
- Form the a community’s Identity: Carefully choose 10 potential members who fit the community identity you envision. They’ll set the standard of quality and the tone for everyone else.
- Earn Trust: The members can’t trust a community that doesn’t yet exist, but they can trust you. Connect with them, bring them value and ask for feedback.
- Fuel Participation: Start to build trust between the members. Their trust in you will translate to trust in each other, and in the group as a whole.
- Reward: Ask if the experience was valuable and if members felt rewarded for their participation. This gives them extra validation and lets you know what to fix if you need to retry.
- Repeat Steps 1-4: Invite new members and give existing members the opportunity to invite someone new. As the base of the group begins to settle it creates a sense of belonging and makes people more likely to invite others who will fit the group.
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Be prepared
Most of the time, there will be a list of attendees available for you to browse before an event. This is your chance to develop pre-connections.
Check out their LinkedIn profile, find ...
Let people know your movements
Use your social networks to tell everyone how excited you are to network and where and when they can meet you.
Don’t forget, you’re giving up your time to attend this event so you need to take something from it.
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Network Effects
Network effects are the unseen forces that are guiding our destiny and exerting a powerful intervention on our lives, creating energy that escorts us down a path that is not always fully our intent...
Zipf's Law
Zipf's law is a mathematical probability that states that in a given set, the most frequently used data value (or word) is used twice as often as the next most common value. This is true in various statistical sets like income distribution in companies, internet traffic, phone calls received, and language.
One of the implications of this law is there are unconscious network forces and mathematical patterns governing our lives, with human beings just being nodes exchanging information.
Dinner Party Mathematics
When six to eight people are conversing at a dinner party, it is easy to focus on one conversation, but if the number is higher (say 15), then two-way conversations are more likely.
When groups get larger, the change is exponential, not linear, affecting one's social experience.