Comments on: Go to CommunityNext http://www.willpate.org/2007/01/18/go-to-communitynext/ Tales from a Gen Y internet guy Tue, 02 Jun 2009 15:33:05 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 By: noah kagan http://www.willpate.org/2007/01/18/go-to-communitynext/#comment-668 noah kagan Mon, 19 Feb 2007 21:49:56 +0000 http://www.willpate.com/2007/01/18/go-to-communitynext/#comment-668 God your picture looks hot;) God your picture looks hot;)

]]> By: Evan Hamilton http://www.willpate.org/2007/01/18/go-to-communitynext/#comment-364 Evan Hamilton Thu, 18 Jan 2007 21:27:32 +0000 http://www.willpate.com/2007/01/18/go-to-communitynext/#comment-364 I'll definitely be there, I'm really excited to hear what people have to say. Tara Hunt's blog post (http://www.horsepigcow.com/2007/01/08/what-is-community-anyway/) is an exciting precursor to the discussion. I'm not sure there are answers in that blog, but there's a refreshing acknowledgment that community is not a graph showing what the average set of people who answered x about y are partial to. It's complicated, ever-changing, and most importantly: personal. There's no way to have a successful community that you treat as numbers, or as an afterthought. If I had time, I would hang out with every Flockstar and every fan of my band...that's really how it should be done. It's how a lot of bands who never get that record deal last a long time...they know their fans and therefore always have a couch to sleep on and a bunch of people screaming their name. A great example of this are my friends Fighting Chance (www.myspace.com/fightingchance). These are guys who love to hang out and have a drink with their fans, and that's why they're getting more popular all the time, not because they spend hours pouring over charts explaining who likes reggae-influenced music. More people need to think (and play) like them. -Evan Hamilton http://www.monstersarenotmyths.com http://www.flock.com I’ll definitely be there, I’m really excited to hear what people have to say. Tara Hunt’s blog post (http://www.horsepigcow.com/2007/01/08/what-is-community-anyway/) is an exciting precursor to the discussion. I’m not sure there are answers in that blog, but there’s a refreshing acknowledgment that community is not a graph showing what the average set of people who answered x about y are partial to. It’s complicated, ever-changing, and most importantly: personal.

There’s no way to have a successful community that you treat as numbers, or as an afterthought. If I had time, I would hang out with every Flockstar and every fan of my band…that’s really how it should be done. It’s how a lot of bands who never get that record deal last a long time…they know their fans and therefore always have a couch to sleep on and a bunch of people screaming their name.

A great example of this are my friends Fighting Chance (www.myspace.com/fightingchance). These are guys who love to hang out and have a drink with their fans, and that’s why they’re getting more popular all the time, not because they spend hours pouring over charts explaining who likes reggae-influenced music. More people need to think (and play) like them.

-Evan Hamilton
http://www.monstersarenotmyths.com
http://www.flock.com

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