[FM Discuss] Are we a tribe?

[adam hyde]

On Mon, 2009-05-18 at 13:16 +0100, mick fuzz wrote:
> If we are a tribe can I be a shamen? First dibs.
> 

darn. too quick. can i be the orange boy? every tribe has those right?

adan

> Mick
> 
> On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 11:54 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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