2/ I've been part of enough communities to know that those good at creating a place everyone feels like they can participate and that their participation is valued makes a huge difference. But it's not an easy equilibrium to find or hold.
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3/ Part of the difficulty is that drawing a boundary around some organization or activity's participants and saying, "you're a community now" is usually a slight of hand.
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4/ Oddly, I think the opposite is the best part about twitter: since there are no clearly-defined boundaries you can carve your own, highly-overlapping ones. (Of course, the worst part about twitter is that they don't provide tools to do so easily or effectively.)
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5/ (P.S. It's always weird that people think of HR and other positions that do conflict resolution as granola. The imagined prospect of that kind of resolution exhausts me. I'd rather jump between two street fighters in an attempt to break it up.)
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