by Dave Bayless | community
How to Make Community Participation More Equal by Making Better Design Choices Participation in your community will be unequal and inequitable. That’s because the insight that is co-produced by members through their investment of time and social capital is a...
by Dave Bayless | community
Build an Audience and Cultivate Community The emphasis on collaborative, peer conversations that demand mutual trust—along with the active brokering of connections and facilitation of conversations by the host—distinguishes communities from networks and audiences. As...
by Dave Bayless | community
How Might Starting with Small Group Conversations Lead to a More Successful Community? Recently, Gina Bianchini, the founder and CEO of Mighty Networks, shared a couple of lessons learned by her company: Our most successful Hosts only had 10 members in their...
by Dave Bayless | community
Learning Community as Mutual Improvement Society A learning community is like a mutual improvement society, much as an online course is like a self-help book. Both can be useful. Learning communities are best for sharing experiences and developing wisdom or mastery....
by Dave Bayless | community, facilitation
Our Predictions as Conversation Starters When we make a prediction, our conversation tends to collapse into a debate about whether the prediction is right or wrong. It’s often better to use a prediction as a trigger for a conversation about the conditions under...
by Dave Bayless | community, facilitation
Our Responsibilities as Meeting Hosts and Participants Too often, business meetings suck. They don’t have to. Meeting hosts can help build trust in the process by being mindful of Purpose, People, and Process. Meeting participants, in turn, have a responsibility...
