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  • Concept: Community Skill Banks by Jim Diers

    See: Neighbour Power by Jim Diers and List of Concepts Notes about Community Skill Banks by Jim Diers (via ChatGPT): Community Skill Banks, as conceptualized by Jim Diers, are innovative platforms that promote community engagement, empowerment, and collaboration. Jim Diers, a renowned community organizer and author, has been a strong advocate for building vibrant and…

  • Concept: Inherent Value/Benefits

    See: List of Concepts and Concept: Bridging Social Capital and Concept: Bonding Social Capital One of the most important attributes that a Community should aim for, is that it must provide some benefits to its members which must be inherent in the members of the community, meeting each other and interacting with each other. Some…

  • Concept: Open Fridge Test

    See: List of Concepts and Concept: Social Capital

  • Concept: Bonding Social Capital

    See: List of Concepts and Concept:Affinity Notes about Bonding Social Capital as conceptualised by Robert Putnam (via ChatGPT): Bonding social capital, as described by Robert Putnam, is a form of social capital that refers to the connections and relationships between individuals who share similar identities, backgrounds, or affiliations. Putnam, a prominent sociologist, introduced the concept…

  • Concept:Affinity

    See: List of Concepts and Concept: Social Capital Affinity refers to the willingness of an individual to work towards the betterment of his community, without expecting a clear and measured reward in return. The more Affinity that the members of a Community have on average, the more likely they are to pass the Open Fridge…

  • Concept: Target Audience Pyramid

    Concept: Target Audience Pyramid

    Author’s Note: This post is cross-posted from this link. This is the segmentation. Segmentation according to geography (which is moot in a digital world) and demographics (which is moot in a diverse world where decisions are taken based on values rather than plain utility) does not work. You have to identify those who care for…

  • Concept: The Identity Stack

    See: The Network State by Balaji Srinivasan and Concept: Human Stack In his book, the Network State, Balaji Srinivasan introduces the concept of the Identity Stack. The main principles behind the Identity Stack are (1) people have various components as a part of their identity; (2) everyone is patriotic about something; (3) without a tribe…

  • Concept: Cultural Iceberg

    See: Beyond Culture by Edward Hall and List of Concepts Notes about the Cultural Iceberg by Edward Hall (via Google Bard): Sure, here is an explanation of the Cultural Iceberg: The Cultural Iceberg is a model of culture developed by Edward T. Hall in his book Beyond Culture (1976). The model compares culture to an…

  • List of Concepts

    Here is a list of concepts referred to repeatedly in this blog, which we believe that an aspiring community builder will benefit from: See: Concept: Values See: Concept: Value Alignment See: Concept: Human Stack See: Concept: Inherent Value/Benefits See: Concept: Social Capital See: Concept: Belongingness See: Concept: Open Fridge Test See: Concept: Core Tribe See:…

  • Concept: Values

    See: List of Concepts and How to find your core values? For those familiar with our thesis, Value alignment is at the core of Community Building. But what exactly are Values? Here is some of the existing literature on Values which may enable us to come up with a framework for what Values are (a…