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We're co-creating the future of communities with the 100 fellows we're bringing in to the very first cohort of the @beondeck Community Builders Fellowship.
And I couldn't be more thrilled to be part of it. Here's why:
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And I couldn't be more thrilled to be part of it. Here's why:
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Community is becoming a popular word right now. Quoting that guy who created that massive communitycc @alexisohanian): "Community Manager is going to be a CAREER little kids talk about wanting to be when they grow up"
While it is emerging as a new (hot) field, it’s here to stay because, in fact, it never left. Community is the earliest human invention, I daresay. Before we knew how to light a fire, or invented the wheel, people gathered around themselves to stay safe.
Community is our most ancient technology. But it has to be reinvented.
My very opinionated pov: communities have always been a thing, but we took it for granted for so many years. In doing so, we forgot it was an art. We took “fitting in” for “belonging”. Then we became more mobile and connected. Also lonelier.
The On Deck Community Builders fellowship is our most meta-community yet. And of course my favorite. The reason why I joined the team was because I saw them doing it: education through community.
Bringing great minds together to co-create knowledge, level each other up and, in doing so, create the tide that lifts all boats. @beondeck did the very thing I’d written about (on Hacking Communities). I’d been part of it, felt home, witnessed its success.
Now, with the Community Builders Fellowship, not only we are doing that very thing we do well to push great communities forward, we’ll also be sharing our own playbook and learning from others who’re actively building outstanding communities and learning from each other.
Co-creating the future of communities, together, by sharing knowledge that accelerates everyone’s learning.
That’s what Universities were meant to be back in time. Curious people gathering to discuss books ranging from philosophy to astronomy, medicine to math - the early stage Unis were places where the curious got together to discuss, learn and co-create knowledge.
Then, it became this production line thing as we know it, today. There are some advantages to it, but not when it comes to the creation of a new, emerging field.
PS: as a dropout, I can't speak too much about it.
PS: as a dropout, I can't speak too much about it.