Community Building - do you grow organically?

[alex (Alex Hillman)]

@NinaSimone

This is a true goal getting difficult in most incubators though where I experience “the end of a cycle” almost every 6 months. And then you often never know what you get. Would you say it makes sense therefore to monitor who is coming out and in to ensure a variety which is naturally balancing out?

If I’m totally honest, I think this is one of the ways that incubators diverge from community building practices. A sense of community is (sometimes) a secondary effect of being bonded by a cohort experience, but I think it’s pretty normal for things to end there.

@NinaSimone

Wow, this sounds super interesting - do you have published some observations?

I do have some great stories and lessons but none currently published, sorry!

@NinaSimone

I also imagine having a hard job as community manager in Asia, or experiencing the need to redefine its role.

Not really any harder than anywhere else! And you already know that I think “community management” needs serious redefinition, regardless of where

I’m sure it’s harder for a westerner to try and lead a community that’s predominantly built on a different culture (just as it would be if the environments were reversed), but if anything I think that Asian collectivist cultures are often more aligned for community building than the more individualist western ones.