Comments on: books on community

By: lauraglu

lauraglu — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 00:11:00 +0000

I like the first one because it touches on both the positive and negative.
-laura

By: Ric Nunez

Ric Nunez — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 21:13:00 +0000

Well. I’ll post some stuff. I working on that in my business, but I did it already with a linux community. My best advise is love and help, do it because you love it, and help everybody. We started with 27 visitors per month. Now we have like 3k unique visitors without any SEO (or website is very bad right now). But we didn’t care in the beginning because we love what we were doing, we helped a lot of people and believe me, Linux 8 years ago was in a lot of need of help. People was grateful and they helped us after three years doing it our self.

By: lauraglu

lauraglu — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 21:11:12 +0000

I like the first one because it touches on both the positive and negative.
-laura

By: thomasknoll

thomasknoll — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 21:03:00 +0000

No! I *love* it! I’m wondering if you have any stories about the transition from “engage and help everybody” to “the community maintaining itself”? Actually, I think I’ll go start a new discussion about this. Thank you for the inspiration! I hope you’ll jump in that thread with your stories?

By: Ric Nunez

Ric Nunez — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 20:43:00 +0000

When you start a business and you are trying to build a community the effort is small. but when you start to grow it gets harder and more difficult to please, to engage and to help everybody. but soon as you do it (and if you do it well from the beginning) also, the community maintains it self. The problem is to go from start and to the community maintain itself. I think I’m going out of topic here, anyway. Happy Sunday everyone.

By: thomasknoll

thomasknoll — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 20:38:00 +0000

‘Love Scales’ is my personal favorite as well. (Want to write it with me?)

However, as I was saying to Angela, someone will eventually need to address the issues of burnout, recovery, sustainability, and shared-responsibility.

By: thomasknoll

thomasknoll — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 20:35:00 +0000

Thank you! I would love to hear more about the “efforts” if you’re willing to share?

By: thomasknoll

thomasknoll — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 20:34:00 +0000

I really do believe there is going to be a need for more resources discussing the sustainability of community management when the emotional weight is put all on one person. Ideally, the emotion (passion, concern, heart-break, and joy) would be distributed throughout the company. But, it will take time and more stories from the front-lines to make that happen.

I would definitely love to hear more about the process and progress if you’re willing to share. =)

By: Michael Scepaniak

Michael Scepaniak — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 20:04:00 +0000

I think “Love Scales” is the best. It’s more positive than the other two choices and it has a nice dichotomy between personal and business, emotional and technical, etc.

By: Ric Nunez

Ric Nunez — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 19:03:00 +0000

Number three is my choice, is the philosophy of all my work and when you said “they might fight for the chance to do……..FOR YOU.” is true and this also required a lot of effort, nothing comes free.