What ten years on Twitter taught me about communities
After exactly a decade on Twitter, Mumbrella’s Tim Burrowes looks back on ten years with his favourite social network
Today marks the tenth anniversary of the day I joined Twitter, exploding onto social media with the riveting insight “sending the mag to press”.
sending the mag to press
— Tim Burrowes (@mumbrella) September 10, 2008
Glad to see you’ve drunk the community kool-aid Tim 😉 As you know I’ve been championing online communities for nearly a decade and still see them as a single biggest asset an organisation can own. Forums in particular remain the largest repository of human knowledge and their potential for peer-support and knowledge-sharing is incredible. Much like you I built a community (Aus CMs/Swarm) and a business at the same time.
In terms of resources there are a lot of great books on community management and fundamental community building principles. https://bit.ly/1nJIVVi