http://disqus.com/people/e9893b3669569603de3b158c8c834afd/enWed, 16 Jul 2008 07:58:07 -0000http://theequitykicker.disqus.com/communities_are_enabled_not_created/#comment-4456257Nick, your views are echoed by Facebook's founder in that you cannot "create" community. His term for facebook is elegant organisation. <br><br><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2007/jun/11/mondaymediasection.news" rel="nofollow">http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2007/jun/11/mon...</a><br><br>It also ties in nicely with Clayton Christensen's perspective that people hire tools to get jobs done.<br><a href="http://www.dinarstandard.com/innovation/ClaytonC022807.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.dinarstandard.com/innovation/Clayton...</a><br><br>One way to start could be to define the jobs, even in a broad sense (eg building social capital), and wrap a service around those goals. To get it right, it is worth thinging about how the community would define recognise and define social capital.<br><br>These might be of interest:<br><br><a href="http://blog.mixergy.com/why-how-to-build-social-capital-online-tara-hunt-interview/" rel="nofollow">http://blog.mixergy.com/why-how-to-build-social...</a><br><br><a href="http://www.slideshare.net/missrogue/making-whuffie" rel="nofollow">http://www.slideshare.net/missrogue/making-whuffie</a><br><br><a href="http://www.slideshare.net/missrogue/happiness-as-your-business-model-414463" rel="nofollow">http://www.slideshare.net/missrogue/happiness-a...</a>NnamdiWed, 16 Jul 2008 07:58:07 -0000