LWPS communities are gathering places similar to a town hall meeting. They can be public, private or moderated. We encourage you to create a community that supports the purpose of LWPS, if one does not already exist in LWPS.
Here are a few general guideliens.
Is your topic appropriate for an LWPS community or a series of posts?
- If you topic is broad enough to attract many members and many posts then you should create a community.
- If your topic is very broad, and you expect many, many posts, then you might want to consider dividing it up into smaller communities.
- If you only expect a few members to join and only a few posts, then just create a series of posts in your personal blog or in another more general community and connect them via the same tag/keyword. (More on tags.)
Does a similar community already exist?
A few LWPS members have created most of the communities on LWPS. They are: (In the next release of LWPS, all communities will be listed in one place for easy review.)
Please review their "Owned Communities" and if one already exists that covers the topics you are interested in, contact the community owner to see if she might be willing to include your topic in her community. If she declines, then feel free to create your own, but provide a link in your community to her community so readers know that two similar communities exists.
Steps for creating a community
- To create a new community click on "Your Network", then "Owned Communities" and follow the instructions.
- Notice the "Membership restriction:" pulldown box with three (3) options. If you want to restrict access choose either the 2nd or 3rd option.
- Click here to read more about protecting your personal information in your profiles, posts and files.
- Create a short and simple community-username for your community. The community URL will read lifeworkps.com/[community-username]. So try to make the community-username as short as possible so it is easy for users to remember. Also, try to make your community-username as much like the name of the community as possible.
- Create an introductory post and add a "Community introduction" tag so others can find your community
- Create a "Welcome" post that includes additional instructions once someone has joined your community. Click here to view a "Welcome-template", then follow the instructions at the top to download and customize your own "Welcome" post for your community. Then include a link to that Welcome post in your invitation to join it and/or the community profile.
- Create a "Mailbox for [community-name] community" post so new community members can add a comment to tell you that they have joined. Click here to learn more about mailboxes.
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- LWPS Communities, or
- Lesson 3, or
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And if LWPS users follow my design idea to develop their LifeWork Plan (LWP), then they can use that as an organizing structure. (See My LWP and my post where I talk about My LWP.)
You should not be concerned about the randomness of your LWPS posts. The key is to just begin posting, and to tag them properly. Then, periodically, reflect and go up one level at a time to create the organizing posts that begin to assemble them together.
Ultimately, most of my posts will be accessible within 4-6 clicks (6 degrees of separation) from My LWP which is linked to from my gold box and thus available to me immediately and at any time.
Could you elaborate a little more about your last statement - "but it is almost easier looking for a person and then going to their respective communities."