WordCamp San Francisco 2009: Lockergnome speaks Community
By patrick, posted May 30, 2009 at 3:36 pm | 2 Comments »
Chris Pirillo
Chris Pirillo has been participating in Internet conversations since 1992, having launched Lockergnome.com as a content publishing network and building Gnomedex to be one of the blogosphere’s highly regarded conferences. He publishes a personal blog and lifecast to tens of thousands of viewers, and is a top subscribed partner on YouTube. When searching Google for “Chris,” his site is listed as the first result. He’s a monthly columnist for CPU Magazine, and has authored books on business and personal technology. Chris also produces weekly video segments for CNN.com Live, where he offers tech advice to a savvy audience.
Chris knew of Matt years ago. Chris started on Moveabletype and switched to WordPress years ago.
Community is about people. If you diagram a person, how many others are the same but each are different. But that is community.
It isn’t about a company it’s about a culture.
The company does not make community.
He did not originally like the iPhone. Did not see how he could like it. And then he used it. But again it’s not the product it’s the community.
Community is becoming increasingly distributed.
It’s no longer a situation where all have to all go to one place.
Community requires tools that can’t be built.
A blog is just a tool. If you think that a blog is a community then you are just a tool.
A community is in your heart.
Community is a commodity, but people aren’t.
Community cannot be controlled, only guided.
Community is no longer defined by physical boundaries.
He collects garbage pail kids. He used to struggle to connect to other collectors yet now is able to easily find other collectors.
Community grows it’s own leaders.
Community is the antithesis of ego.
Respond to long negative attacks with 
Attacks are lone people among many. As long as you connect.
Community is inside, part of you.
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