My current job title includes the term “Community Builder” and I get asked nearly every day just what that means: how do you build community? where is the community you want to build? how can I be a community builder online? I want to take a break from all the hard work building community (does that get a wink?)

Yesterday, I checked out the session “Community organizing and online organizing: can they go together?” The session covered interesting points on the debate between community and online organizers and ways to overcome the resistance within an organization. Campaign: win on specific interests.

The word most in question: “organization&#. When applying the idea of the traditional understandings of the word “organization&# to this bunch, we could say: Strawberries = the organization (staff). Blueberries = the members/supporters/community. That doesn’t help us communicate very well! Raspberries.

The competition we conducted as part of this panel surfaced a collection of case studies of organizations using social media in their program delivery.  You can see the full collection, and how they were voted on by the community here: [link]. Create opportunities for iterations and involvement by community. Crowd vs Community.

If you're implementing social media smartly at your organization, you already know it raises more issues for nonprofits than it solves. If social media is about individuals conversing authentically with a community, who's in charge of the conversation? . To whit: the second coming of the online community manager.  . Well, yes.

David Wilcox and I are getting ready for iterations on Social by Social - the first two being applications of the lessons learned and strategies for using social media shared in Social by Social ( read online or download the PDF for free, or buy your hardcopy ) in local communities and the same for local government.  of other projects. 

love community organizing. I’ve had experience organizing communities offline in local communities, and organizing community online – but the kind of organizing that inspires me the most is combining online and offline. What roles are important in online community organizing?

For the TwiTip post, I rewrote it by adding steps for building community in general. Twitter can be a great space for building community around your membership-based organization, whether you work for a professional society, trade association or a cause-related nonprofit. builds community. So people can find you easily.

It sounds like a dry subject, but tagging is really super cool and ha massive implications for the design, building and nurturing of online communities and I thought I'd jot down some notes I took straight out of the book so you can see why. Tags: tagging community There can be friction between these. Do you allow user-generated tags?

thought his five skills were equally significant viewed through the lens of the future "community manager". agree wholeheartedly with these and think they relate quite naturally to community management and community building (which is really the goal of engaging stakeholders). marketing? membership? Anyway. They are: 1.