A community is conversations
A community is shared news and opinions
Since the advent of the online world, it’s no longer just geographical
A community is interactions. This struck a chord with me and reminded me of the time I spent with David Zinger and friends this summer.
High quality connections – choose to make contact, to say hello. David spoke about Jane Dutton, whose research focuses on how organizational conditions strengthen capabilities of individuals and firms. In particular, she examines how high quality connections, positive meaning and emotions contribute to individual and organizational strengths. David said that his observations of how many (or how few) folks acknowledge and engage with a front desk in an organisation, tells him a lot about their high quality connections, and how it is around here. My friend Sukh Pabial wrote something about this which I consider to be recommended reading – you may want to take a look.
A community is about shared purpose. ConnectingHR gets a mention.