You're welcome! I'm glad you're getting some useful pointers from these articles.
I really wish I had these kinds of thought provoking articles on community management when I was first starting out, so I'm trying to jumpstart the success of others. These articles are really meant to provide an easy core foundation for all Invision Community admins and owners to think deeply about how to build a better community.
Sometimes I feel as if community managers try to rely too much on technology to solve all their problems. Install a new app! Request customization! Focus on SEO and sitemaps! When in reality, there's this whole component to sparking human connection which is far more important. People have been building communities for thousands of years, and the tenets of community building have been around forever.
In short, whether you build your tribe in digital or offline, you'll always need to think about things like boundaries, identification, rituals, and more. Get those right and the community will follow.
