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Friday 13 December 2013

Community - The Helping Hand: Brief Guide: Part 1

Community..!! We have heard this term many times in personal as well as professional life. Today, We will have a deep dive into the subject “Community and how it can help us?”. There can be many nontechnical people reading this article, so I will make it as simple as possible so any apprentice can even understand.

What a Community mean?
In simple word, when a group of people with mutual interest gathers and show willingness to help each other and/or exchange the knowledge with each other without any expectation of personal gain, the platform/place where they gather is known as community.

Types of Community
There are 2 types of community:
  • Personal
  • Professional
Personal Community
Personal community is a platform/place where people of the same cast, religion and/or interest gathers and help each other. Personal community can be social where people with same cast meet each other in various social functions like wedding, funeral, social get together, etc. Another kind of personal community can be Local Student community where students of the same college and/or University helps each other in various ways. We all know how does such communities help us so I'm not going into much detail of it.

Professional Community
Professional community can help people to grow in their career by solving their problems, giving guides, manuals, job offers and much more. We will explore the professional community and how to make best out of it.

Branches of Professional Communities
  • Forums or Bulletin Boards
  • Mailing List
  • QA Websites
  • “Active” Blog
  • Social Networks
In upcoming part I will explain what are the benefits and how to make best out of community and some words of wisdom. So keep reading the posts. Give your feedback in comment section.

Ash Vyas SEO Ash Vyas is working as an internet Marketing manager at Ecosmob handling digital marketing activities like SEO, SMO, Linkbuilding.
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