Are You Building Community or Connections?

So I’m sat here at the Like Minds Summit reflecting over the last few days where we’ve played host to over 300 people, and I don’t know where to start.

The main thing I want to say to everyone is what I’ve been saying for a little while now about Connections Over Community.

Community support is great – but it only gets you so far. If you really want to do something, and achieve something, then you need to begin building connections out of that community.

The takeaway from Like Minds is this: go and pick up the phone, or send an email, and get some face-to-face time with the connections you’ve made. There’s too much talk and not enough action these days – so often because we’re busy building our own communities rather than developing connections that enable us to really be helpful.

Surely all the talk of ‘social’ needs to come around into this?