I want to cry every time I check the online communities I joined this time last year. Most of them are now barren wastelands. Some thoughts on why online communities fail... 🧶 First, picture the scene: you joined a poppin' Slack or Discord a while back. It was LIT when you joined, but now it's... not lit.
Alternative hypothesis: even if there is a single purpose, often it is the size and structure of the community that determines if it is alive or dying. WoW Guilds should provide a template for this dynamic. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18537499
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Loved the article Stew! Perhaps the Internet is turning us back into nomads and we should see online communities as inherently ephemeral gatherings.
Alternative hypothesis: even if there is a single purpose, often it is the size and structure of the community that determines if it is alive or dying. WoW Guilds should provide a template for this dynamic. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18537499
Founder and publisher of Solo Lady CEO (Confidence, Enough, Onward) courses and community. I have been an online creator and entrepreneur for over 20 years while teaching hundreds of entrepreneurs in person.