Comments on: Question 24 of 365: When should you fire your community? http://learningischange.com/2010/01/25/question-24-of-365-when-should-you-fire-your-community/ Fri, 10 Feb 2012 02:44:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Ben Wilkoff http://learningischange.com/2010/01/25/question-24-of-365-when-should-you-fire-your-community/comment-page-1/#comment-1662 Ben Wilkoff Tue, 09 Mar 2010 02:12:19 +0000 http://learningischange.com/?p=889#comment-1662 Yeah... so I kind of fired my network a little bit last week.<br><br>I set up a different twitter account and I started populating it with<br>totally different people. I started engaging in the types of conversations<br>that I never would within my current networks. I started commenting on where<br>people were going for dinner and retweeting things that I let pass on by<br>previously.<br><br>It has been a renaissance for me. Like today, I was talking with someone<br>from Israel. That never would have happened because I don't reach out to<br>people in my old network. I wait for them to come to me. That isn't a way to<br>build a network or a community. And I think that I have enough of a head<br>start on what it takes to build a community that I might just try and do<br>that this time rather than just another network for me to engage in. Yeah… so I kind of fired my network a little bit last week.

I set up a different twitter account and I started populating it with
totally different people. I started engaging in the types of conversations
that I never would within my current networks. I started commenting on where
people were going for dinner and retweeting things that I let pass on by
previously.

It has been a renaissance for me. Like today, I was talking with someone
from Israel. That never would have happened because I don't reach out to
people in my old network. I wait for them to come to me. That isn't a way to
build a network or a community. And I think that I have enough of a head
start on what it takes to build a community that I might just try and do
that this time rather than just another network for me to engage in.

]]> By: Zac Chase http://learningischange.com/2010/01/25/question-24-of-365-when-should-you-fire-your-community/comment-page-1/#comment-1661 Zac Chase Tue, 09 Mar 2010 01:59:49 +0000 http://learningischange.com/?p=889#comment-1661 I've been thinking about this quite a bit lately. The more I think about it, the more I think I mean firing my network so I can spend more time with my communities. George Siemens talks about this, explaining our network is something outside of our control. I can choose where and how I plug in to my network, but not the dynamic and reach of the network. That's beyond my control.<br>My community, on the other hand, is well within my control. I have a responsibility to its upkeep and fostering.<br>Sometimes I confuse my network for my community. (Oddly, never my communities for my network.) I start to expect things from my network that it's not built to provide. It's a network.<br>When I make these assumptions with false expectation, that's right about the time I want to fire it.<br>I want to build the next big thing with my community. I want the network to support it, to advise it, to poke holes and act as a resource when needed.<br>I want my community to build ideas with. I've been thinking about this quite a bit lately. The more I think about it, the more I think I mean firing my network so I can spend more time with my communities. George Siemens talks about this, explaining our network is something outside of our control. I can choose where and how I plug in to my network, but not the dynamic and reach of the network. That's beyond my control.
My community, on the other hand, is well within my control. I have a responsibility to its upkeep and fostering.
Sometimes I confuse my network for my community. (Oddly, never my communities for my network.) I start to expect things from my network that it's not built to provide. It's a network.
When I make these assumptions with false expectation, that's right about the time I want to fire it.
I want to build the next big thing with my community. I want the network to support it, to advise it, to poke holes and act as a resource when needed.
I want my community to build ideas with.

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