September 2013
Intermediate to advanced
204 pages
5h 28m
English

Life Cycle and Maturity Models for Online Communities
Life cycle. Maturity. Transience is eternal. Cycles of growth and decay are infinitely scalable, and community managers and members see signs of them every day in their online interactions. The concepts are scarcely unique to online communities.
The other day my oldest daughter was asking about the Earth: How old is it? What stage of life is it in? Will it ever end? Pretty deep thoughts for a nine-year-old, but it brought about some interesting conversation around the various cultures and religions in the world. Why do some seem to have stalled at one stage for centuries or even millennia, ...
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