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books on community

Brainstorming titles of books on community with @communitygirl: “Community: All is Fair in Love and War” “Community: These People Kill Me” “Community: Love Scales” [ via tweeeet ] Community: All is Fair in Love and War Community is not all peaches and ponies. It is hard work and messy and beautiful and creative and draining. People are mean. And people are [...]
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I hate Community Management

People’s “relationships” are emergent and thus can’t be managed. That is, they can be influenced but not controlled. [ via Charlie Ehin ] a.k.a. Why I Think ‘manager’ is the worst word to follow the word ‘community’ I prefer the phrase Community Cultivation and try to map all tasks and skills against gardening metaphors: planting seeds mindfulness about environmental [...]
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the fewer rules, the better

Really, the fewer rules, the better. The concept is just if [a customer] calls and there’s an issue, do whatever is necessary to make her happy and really wow her. [ via The Way I Work ]
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