Cultivate Community: A Guide to Tending Digital Spaces

Did you know 64% of Gen Zers and millennials feel better understood by the specialized online communities than by their family and real-world friends?Today more people seek connection online but not every online group flourishes. As a community builder you cant just throw people in a group chat and hope community will magically form. Digital communities are like gardens that need careful tending; one results in beautiful flowers and the other offers a space where members are understood nurtured and embraced.Tending communities is no easy task. It requires time energy and hard work but like gardening its a skill that can be learned. Cultivate Community explains the step-by-step process for how anyone can create digital spaces they need and want to see. In this book you will explore: Why digital-first communities are necessary complements to in-person onesWhat structures processes and cultures the best communities share including provocations like lead with love decentralize power and community as a gardenHow you start your own community or help existing groups become more community-spiritedAshley Lins Cultivate Community reminds us that we all have the ability to create flourishing digital-first communities in our own lives-and discover our power to change the world.