On Developing the Community Profession
As more and more identity formation happens online, it’s is inevitable that most of it happens in private spaces. As we spend more and more time living in these spaces, it’s inevitable that their intentional shaping should become more important to us. As more and more internet-first communities choose to build the means for themselves to live, it i... See more
Toby Shorin • Come for the Network, Pay for the Tool
To create something that others want to join and support, we have to remember a core tenet: communities function best and are most durable when they’re helping members to be more successful in some way in a connected and dynamic world.
Charles Vogl • The Art of Community: Seven Principles for Belonging
The ambition for CIVIC SQUARE is somewhere between Impact Hub, library, community centre and Roman forum: a place where local people will come together on an ongoing basis to invent and reinvent the place they live; where they will be equipped to own and lead their own community, rather than be told what to do.