[Andrew-Katie Hemingway]

Your Community is in danger...http://bit.ly/2R4HfL... How do you protect your community from wolves in sheep's clothing. I posted 3 things that I do, but would like to hear form other managers about what they do. Please join in with your thoughts.

Andrew
http"//shepherding20.wordpress.com

[Barbara]

Andrew-Katie Hemingway, on 20 November 2009 - 12:31 AM, said:

Your Community is in danger...http://bit.ly/2R4HfL... How do you protect your community from wolves in sheep's clothing. I posted 3 things that I do, but would like to hear form other managers about what they do. Please join in with your thoughts.

Andrew
http://shepherding20.wordpress.com

I may be biased in reading this, but I think it's interesting that community management seems to start from grass roots more than from the top down which I interpreted from the statements about OCMs being established members in the community ... kind of like the egg before the chicken comparison (or the chicken was the egg).

Also, I thought the statement at the end about management not listening to their wants and needs is important. I always felt like I defending the right to have and maintain a community in a large enterprise setting. Even though we used open source tools and spare servers, management always saw the community tools as extraneous. I saw it as a cohesive element of the workforce. Many times I went to bat for the community and luckily won most of the time. I'm sure this is not true everywhere, it's just my experience.