Community building is up to ALL of us

By Mike Maddaloni on Friday, January 26, 2007 at 09:43 AM with 3 comments

Fresh off the TechCocktail networking event last night in Chicago, I have been pondering the state of the "tech community" here in Chicagoland. But as I was thinking in all kinds of direction on the topic, I slapped myself and came back to the reality that the online world, stripped of its technology, is very much like the offline world.

Do you know your neighbors? Think about it – people that may live in the next apartment, condo or house from you, do you know them, and if so to what degree? What about the person in the next office or cubicle? Or the person you greet every day when you get your coffee, dry cleaning or lunch?

If you don't know them, why is it? Did you try to initiate a relationship and they did not reciprocate? Or vice versa?

It is easy to dismiss the tech community as anti-social or people who would rather interact with avatars than people. Where there are some people like that, those people exist in society in general. There are social tech people, and they are organizing events, networking and starting sites like WindyBits to help foster the community.

I believe there is hope. Now I need to get back to sending emails and notes to people I met last night.

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Comments

Sounds an awful lot like the FullSail concept!

Great blog Mike!

Picture of Mega Comment by Mega
on 02/03/07 at 04:28 PM
 


Hi Mega - As much as it is a unique concept it is a general one, but one that takes effort to implement.  We just need more people on board to do so, and all you to help is greatly appreciated!

Thanks for coming by!

mp/m

Picture of Mike Maddaloni Comment by Mike Maddaloni
on 02/04/07 at 01:19 PM
 


Sweet!  Sign me up!!

Picture of Mega Comment by Mega
on 02/05/07 at 08:48 AM
 



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