Community Culture
There's a Bedouin proverb which goes like this:
Me against my brother
Me and my brother against my
cousin
Me, my brother and my cousin against the foreigner
In the past two years there's been a rash of websites which have sprung up to
cater for the formation of communities and, looking at them, you really have to
wonder whether we have improved the ability to foster a rich community
experience.
Communities which prosper over the next 12 months will be communities who are
able to create a mentoring atmosphere and gain retention by helping struggling
users to learn better ways of doing things or, to provide some sort of
validation as to where they fit within the wider community pool.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not against "Top N X" lists; I'm just concerned that
we are producing boilerpate community sites from a template which may not be a
great model.
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