Communities Work Better than Networks

We observed this too, just watching your network grow does not buy you anything.   You also need a community with purpose, alerts and measures.  Says the HBR.  I will add to that, the communities can also have little value if they do not have useful purposes.  That can be provided by leadership that observes and adjusts their activity.  And those steps reflect the context of what the community is about. Been observing several Linkedin Groups I am a member of and you can feel the difference in their direction and progress based on steps taken.  I want to go back to a group a month later and see it has achieved something.