Comments on: What Makes a Community? http://portlandsocialmedia.com/2007/05/22/what-makes-a-community/ The Spiritual Successor to the Portland Podcasting Group Wed, 20 Aug 2008 16:28:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2 By: Adam Fields http://portlandsocialmedia.com/2007/05/22/what-makes-a-community/#comment-1141 Adam Fields Sat, 26 May 2007 14:48:22 +0000 http://portlandsocialmedia.com/2007/05/22/what-makes-a-community/#comment-1141 Glad you liked the piece. While I think the owners and operators of these communities can provide better tools and guide this process (and should!), it's ultimately about the interactions between the users themselves. I don't want the site to send me an automated email asking why I stopped looking at their ads. I want my interactions with the other members to be meaningful enough that they miss it when it's not happening. We have one side of it - people keep coming back because they want to see what's new. But the other side is, for most people, too disparate, too faceless, and too fluid. Glad you liked the piece. While I think the owners and operators of these communities can provide better tools and guide this process (and should!), it’s ultimately about the interactions between the users themselves.

I don’t want the site to send me an automated email asking why I stopped looking at their ads. I want my interactions with the other members to be meaningful enough that they miss it when it’s not happening. We have one side of it - people keep coming back because they want to see what’s new. But the other side is, for most people, too disparate, too faceless, and too fluid.

]]> By: Steve http://portlandsocialmedia.com/2007/05/22/what-makes-a-community/#comment-1098 Steve Tue, 22 May 2007 19:18:48 +0000 http://portlandsocialmedia.com/2007/05/22/what-makes-a-community/#comment-1098 agree, twitter is a good example. There are so called community sites though, like classmates, that keep bugging you to upgrade, not really a call back to the community if you ask me :) agree, twitter is a good example. There are so called community sites though, like classmates, that keep bugging you to upgrade, not really a call back to the community if you ask me :)

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