Community Building
Relationships develop most naturally in the company of like-minded people who share an interest or passion.
It is a good starting point, but we must realize that meaningful relationships require more than common unifying factors.
The best networkers and community leaders spend most of their time empowering others. They’re building trust.
Because when we have trust and believe in something, we’re way more likely to participate and contribute actively.
This way, a community network will actually reward in the long run.
How to build trust?
But the most important thing is to know what is going on in your environment.
I know what I am going to do when I am allowed to go to cafes again. I am going to buy myself a delicious breakfast. And I’ll buy you one as well. I am going to look for 5 people. I’ll ask them to test my work. With simple questions I am going to learn about 85% of the usability problems. Not like this: Did this notification sound give you the information you needed in your experience?
“More isn’t always better, Linus. Sometimes it’s just more”. – The Movie Sabrina (1995). Do large communities add more value than smaller ones According to British anthropologist Robin Dunbar, the “magic number” is 150. His theory concludes that we can only really maintain about 150 connections at a time.
We can hardly remember a time when all of this wasn’t possible. Online communication tools and social platforms enabled us to develop bigger communities more easily. But do we achieve so much more by making everything bigger? Sometimes people tend to focus so hard on making everything bigger that they lose sight of what’s really important.