five beliefs
I’ve been thinking about Web-based community software for most of my life and have refined five beliefs for what must come next.
Tag: Community
privileged practice
It was quite a roller coaster of a week. Remembering what a privilege certain moments are can help even out the ride.
discussing violence
It’s very difficult to talk about violence even among close friends over drinks, let alone on social media or other online venues. We need to anyway.
community signal
Patrick O’Keefe of the long-running show Community Signal asked me to join him in a discussion that ranged from private equity buying community software, community data ownership, and the stakeholder challenges of community software roadmaps.
least evil
A few months ago, an old friend called me the “least evil person” they know. I keep thinking about it.
open investments
I recently read “Why I wouldn’t invest in open-source companies, even though I ran one” by Wolfram Hempel and started to write a very long comment, but decided I’d just publish my own counterpoint instead.
real community
I don’t think many of us understand what a community is or how to support one. We’ve built a lot of software to help people talk, and very little to help them build community.
using forums
Offering community managers a forum to build a community is like giving a project manager a kanban board. Yes, they can make it work. But is there really a “kanban market”?
black box
The greatest sin of any developer is thinking they are cleverer than the users of what they build. “I can guess what you want.” In truth, guessing what someone wants is far easier than helping them achieve what they actually want.
platform syndicate
Platforms exist to remove interaction barriers between users. The folly of platforms is believing they can entirely rely on algorithms to control & shape human interaction.