OnEBoard Chat: Building Community

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This week OnEBoard's Peggy K hosted OnEBoard Chat with a discussion about Community building. 

Topics

The OnEBoard team talked about the challenges of building and maintaining communities. 
  • Defining online community and different membership models.
  • Community building on YouTube.
  • Challenges in engaging community members and encouraging participation.
  • Finding the right community fit. 
  • AI comments and authenticity. 
  • The impact of negativity and hateful content.
  • A shift towards offline communities and direct interactions.

Discussion Mind Map about community authenticity generated by NotebookLM (Click to enlarge)


Discussion Mind Map about community challenges generated by NotebookLM (Click to enlarge)

Takeaways

Nina Trankova on defining community: "So it's a common unity community. It's a unity of a piece of common understanding we share. It's a resonating tiny piece. It shouldn't be everything like perfectionism. We shouldn't be equally agreeing on absolutely 100% of everything. but a little piece of common ground that is making us come together and do things together."

Bob Danley on live streaming and authenticity: "you can't get away with being fake when you're actually having to talk."

Peggy Kolm on AI-generated comments: "it's actually kind of alienating to have these obviously artificial answers or comments on your posts and that I feel like that scares away real people who might actually comment."

Nina Trankova on the appeal of in-person communities: "my closing word for today would be that I will be teaching offline communities because for me the trend is going back to town halls sticking together with the people you actually know."

Andrew Hatchett (from the live chat): "​​My most successful communities have always been smaller rather than larger."

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