Scott Porad

Chris Pirillo by Randy Stewart (@stewtopia)

Chris Pirillo gave a great talk on community at WordCamp Seattle last weekend.  These were the text on his slides, as recorded in my notes.  For the most part, they are verbatim.   [The portion in brackets is my annotation.]

1. Community has always been there, inside all of us. [Connecting to others is a natural part of the human condition.]
2. Community — it’s about the culture, not the company. [Can't just throw a blog platform up there and expect a community to form.]
3. Community is becoming increasingly distributed. [You used to have to go to specific places online, but now with mobile, aggregators, etc., the community comes to you.]
4. Community requires tools that can’t be built. [Passion, caring, engagement, effort.]
5. Community is a commodity, but people aren’t. [The tools for a community, blogs, message boards, etc. are a commodity...but people are the key ingredient.]
6. Community cannot be controlled, only guided. [When you try to control your community it dies.]
7. Community is no longer defined by physical boundaries. [It has always been about who you are, but there were limits based on where you were.  The Internet changes that.]
8. Community will grow it’s own leaders.
9. Community is the antithesis of ego. [It is about *everybody*...Twitter is not a community, Twitter is a commons.]
10. Community is everywhere, inside you. [All of life is making connections, and making connections is part of everyone's life.]