We can become fixated on the idea of creating amazing communities. Maybe we should consider the impact of connections over a period of time.
Connection can exist before, during and after community. The reality is that our community work lives on through all the connections we enable, in ways we may never realize.
Perhaps another way to look at it is to understand the difference between ‘community’ and ‘connection’. We may find that ‘communities’ come and go, but that underlying ‘connection’ remains. I have explored this in more detail with the language of ‘community firmament’, the idea that we can be socially connected as a precursor to ‘community’ itself.
Can long standing networks evolve to be innovative and impactful? Well, that may be a matter of semantics: can ‘a’ network evolve? Perhaps not. But can the same people engage in new ways, forming new networks? Absolutely.
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