More on community

After my 'aha' moment with Reading 2.6 I serendipitously came across two related articles via one of the blogs I follow - LibraryTechNZ. The posting was about a recent workshop on designing and sustaining creative communities. It sounded very interesting and within the report back on the workshop were links to 2 articles. The first is a piece from one of the founders of Flickr about building online communities. The main thing I learnt from this was the importance of providing friendly input but allowing communities to evolve . The second article about the Brooklyn Museum reinforced the importance of staff members being active participants in the online communities and showcased how cheaply initiatives can be started by using existing free web 2.0 tools.
One of the speakers at the workshop - Derek Powazek - has written a book which I will recommend for our staff reference library.