[FM Discuss] Are we a tribe?

[Alice Miller]

Easiest way to find out is to sign up: tribe.net

On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 6:54 AM, Andy Oram <andyo at oreilly.com> wrote:

> I don't know whether I'm being serious or silly here, but I saw a book
> review and decided to point to the book as a little thought-provoker:
>
> http://www.squidoo.com/tribesbook
>
> Godin defines a tribe as a group of people connected to one another,
> connected to a leader, and connected to an idea that inspires their
> passion. He argues that human beings have a need to belong, "to be
> part of a tribe, to contribute to (and take from) a group of
> like-minded people. We are drawn to leaders and to their ideas, and we
> can't resist the rush of belonging and the thrill of the new," he
> writes.
>
> ....
>
> Thanks to the Web, the barriers to leadership have fallen. There are
> tribes everywhere, millions in search of leaders, waiting to connect
> to create change. And people yearn to belong to more than one tribe,
> according to Godin.
>
> And therein lies the opening door for Net-savvy leader
> wannabes. Because the Internet eliminates geography, existing tribes
> are bigger and there are smaller tribes, too - tribes you work with,
> tribes you travel with, tribes that ride motorcycles, and more. There
> are "literally thousands of ways to coordinate and connect groups of
> people that didn't exist a generation ago," he writes.
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