Comments on: Five ‘Ah-Ha’ Moments When it Comes to Online Community

By: Paul

Paul — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 03:29:36 +0000

@Chris Arsenault – Yes, that is exactly what I mean. You articulated my point much better than I did.

Blessings,
-Paul.

By: Chris Arsenault (ThruFire)

Chris Arsenault (ThruFire) — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 03:14:55 +0000

Online communities are better identified by social tags rather than technological tags.

Paul – do you mean social interests vs the tools/technologies that support conversations about those interests?

I’ve been online since 1982 (using bulletin board systems – BBS’s) It’s not the tools that matter, it’s the conversations of value that take place on them. Twitter is a network node variation of a chat room. Communities have a strong core of value that’s sustainable even when the tool is not present or used. BBS evolved into chat-rooms into twitter. Big whoop.

Tools change, but the value of the human community doesn’t, nor does how we relate and label those interests change. We don’t usually define ourselves by our tools.

Twitter supports multiple communities, and only in a very loose sense is it a single community (with itself and the human nature of the members as the only common core).

By: John (Human3rror)

John (Human3rror) — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 15:26:43 +0000

not sure i agree with you here dude. i think the platform conversation needs to be explained deeper, ’cause there’s not enough meat to spill me over into agreement.

twitter is a community. it’s understood as such. a “social tag”? what’s that. and how does that work with your “across multiple platforms” spiel?

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Speedlinking - February 4, 2009 « Thoughts of Resurrection — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 14:04:20 +0000

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By: Tre Lawrence

Tre Lawrence — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 22:14:26 +0000

Good commentary…

By: Andrew Conard

Andrew Conard — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 16:31:24 +0000

I appreciate the moments that you have captured here. They are a concise articulation to some trends that I have been pondering for a while. I think that your bonus question is particularly relevant. I believe that persons that are a part of church are not unwilling to invite others to church, they are in need of tools to do so. Physically this can be done by giving invites to persons in the congregation, but much can be done to provide tools for persons to make an invitation online.