These words from
in reference to a physical bulletin board stuck with me :Every poster feels like a link to something new and exciting around me that I wouldn’t have known about otherwise. Patched together on the board, they are a map of a diverse city that is actively and continually shaped by residents. It is “international” in some ways, yes, but deeply local in others. [source]
“Bulletin boards as links to something exciting” is something to aim for in our communities, irl or virtually.
Bulletin boards are the hubs of communities and the idea of looking at them as “exciting links” out to something else is a great model to have in mind. What we often forget is that community is infrastructure, it is what we enable, not what we have right here, right now.
If you had a bulletin board in your community, what exciting things could it link out to?
I've been thinking about getting a community bulletin board for my apartment complex - but have delayed because I thought it would be filled up with local business pitches. This piece reminded me to figure it out and act on it, thanks!