Community Building
Some people say that offline networking is better for those trying to increase their local presence.
Others believe that online networking works best at all times. It’s faster, simple, and more efficient.
Taking advantage of both worlds is what most people advise.
Easier said than done.
Of course, it pays off, but only if you are willing to do the hard work.
Realize that online; it requires much more than posting on social media a few times a week. And offline, it’s more than organizing a meetup every now and then.
Here’s a start.
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.