Build: Community, purpose & growth
Online Communities
The ABV pilot has been exploring community-building for the past month. Part of our research and learning has been finding thriving online communities and understanding what makes them work so well. A few interesting communities that we’ve identified: Rosa Say’s Joyful, Jubilant Learning Community. Notice the use of providing a topic–movies–that anyone can contribute on.…
Read MoreLearning from the Fashionistas
See this interview with Patricia Handschiegel for tips and examples of great networking and community-building. I found her advice to be so on target, not only for ABV but also for entrepreneurship in general, that I posted on my other blog about it.
Read MoreGood to Great = Letting Go of Control
This post from the WSJ is a familiar story: Passionate entrepreneur starts a company, grows the biz to where what made them successful starting out is now a liability. Hires a president to run the company and scale it. Founder has trouble letting go, afraid that her original vision will be changed and that her…
Read MoreThere’s Room for All Voices
Don’t miss this video of a discussion, led by sports commentator, Bob Costas, to hear all about the virtues and dangers of blogs. The lively conversation starts with the editor of a sports blog that gets 10 million hits a month, adds in a profanity-spewing Pulitzer Prize winning journalist, and finally, a professional athlete, who…
Read MoreThe Scarcity of Hybrids
I previously posted about the power of hybrids–how "both/and" thinking takes the conversation to a new place and how vibrant communities, where a many viewpoints are put forth, are ideally suited to take create hybrids. Jeremiah Owyang has a great posting about how it’s difficult to find hybrids that fill a real need in the…
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