Saravanan Sahadevan

We have been playing a prominent role in communities at large or at medium. Each of us are some sort of contribution to a creation of a community. Communities exist everywhere. The same rule applies even on the virtual space. There is even no virtual space without a community. 

Why we say a community is important.

The fact is simple. We want to be heard as well we want to hear others. From students to employees, we have communities that interact with each other and the transfer of knowledge and information between people is what have been keeping any community alive. 

How communities are built and should I build one.

Communities are formed by people who have a common interest and taste. If their passion clicks, a community is immediately born. Communities are formed in various formats such as in a blog, social media profiles, networking and so on. But a creation of a community is up to you. If you would like to be preaching & spreading on a particular interest/product of yours, then creating a community is a go. The goal is to be heard. Spreading a thought is different from trying to dominate it by the way.

Joining a community, does that make any sense.

Of course it does makes sense. What a community is without people. We join communities such as blogs & various social media in the reason to network, listen and interact. We join a community not to be heard as a goal but to energize our thoughts through contribution. Getting recognized if far more less important than contributing. 

Inter-relativity between communities. 

Many seem to fail in this approach. We created too much but we often fail to contribute. Building a community is not enough. We must engage with other communities, providing contribution through comments and any other forms available. We carry a brand of our community around when we do that. But for many, the importance does not seem to be sticking with them.

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One of the toughest and most productive work is to come up with solid ideas. Many people experienced serious blackouts and stress while coming up with such ideas. I decided to look into certain ways & situation that would encourage us to pour more productive thoughts. This are ways of how I successfully came up with ideas. Some may sound strange but it sure did work for me. 

Shower - This is most productive place I would say. Often I do come up with thought when I’m engaged in a hot shower. Your mind is relaxed at that time, therefore I presume when we are relaxed, we tend to be more productive as well. 

Text Edit/Notepad - Common and simplest application available on Mac’s and PC’s. This has helped a bunch. Setting up a Future Post Ideas folder for me, encourages me to jot down ideas in text edit softwares and saving it for later reference. However, this not only applies for post but also for others. Do keep specific folders. For example : New Venture Ideas.

Plain Paper - Many have claim this as to be the best. To me often it does not seem to work out very well. I do tend to misplace pieces of papers and leading to a lost of a valuable idea perhaps. I would recommend something digitalized at any point of time. 

Electronic Devices - Notes and to-do’s in phones have helped me a lot. When ever I stumble upon an idea, I would immediately jot down on my phones for later transfers to my idea folders. This happens often as I do not carry around my notebook everywhere. Inspirations may flow from any place. For example in the flower market. The only gadget that is with me is a phone. So do utilize it to the maximum. 

Electronic Medium - Emails. I constantly email my self when I have an idea. On the mac, the mail software is very useful as it allow you to mail your selfs notes. It works well at class too. Alternatively, you could email your self using to-do’s found on most web mail applications such as Gmail. There is even tons of social media application on the internet for this but nothing beats the mails and other techniques listed above. 

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This morning as I woke up and launched my RSS reader, God, we really have some content here. It was flooded basically. This actually happens everyday and well that’s why I decided to yack about it as well. 

I was just wondering how come, most of us could not keep up with RSS feeds and have a difficult time to get news first. Simple observations lead me to two basic points which made sense.

Time Zone - As for me, most stuffs that happens at the Silicon Valley, is during the time I snooze. So I kind of miss what’s happening live. Not at all times I have the energy to stay awake up to 4 or 5 a.m in the morning. So by right, RSS readers do come in handy to check out what you have missed, though the volume is practically large.

Confusion - There’s so much information popping up every second, that’s like if you have tons of feeds like me. I actually would love to go through every single content, but sometimes its not convenient. All I do is to glance through titles and stop at titles that I feel important and would read through it. Filters and search are good options but it has not been working well with me, so I would not recommend it. So don’t practice of reading every single thing or you would end up in confusions and Fatal overload. That’s scary. Don’t forget to hit the read on/more link and interact with the particular blog or site.

Based on my recent post on informations overload, Can this type of RSS flood declare an overload? As for me yes. So we have to deal with it more humanly. Pick your favorites and dump the rest. 

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