I shared community definitions a while back and I was revisiting them for a talk I created for Creator Day.
One of the ideas that I settled on is that community is care. No matter what the definition of community is that we align with, I feel all communities require care.
An audience can turn into a community if it is treated with care. Without the care, it won’t.
The three core focuses I came up with for community is care were:
people: we have to care and give a damn for the people we aim to serve
ecosystem: we have to support and care for the ecosystem we are a part of
alignment: we have to care for what we are aligned with, often people refer this as their community or business ‘vision’.
What do you think? Am I missing something? Does this align with your community?
150% - I use to reference this as 'care square':
- caring for the shared purpose/mission (alignment)
- caring for each other (people)
You are adding ecosystem, which I think is an interesting additional dimension