Comments on: What Cults Can Teach You About Building Community – The Douglas Atkin Interview

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By: Deep Patel

Deep Patel — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 16:02:08 +0000

Andrew,

great interview. I believe communities extend the “customer experience” beyond purchasing the product. It’s interesting to know that communities are a basic human need, but many companies pay little attention to figure out how to build a community around their businesses.

from this interview I noticed that I should be participating in more meetups related to my business, I used participate at the local renewable energy meet up, but have not been attending as regularly as I should be. I suppose a meetup can help build an offline community which I can bring online to our website. Possibly by taking pictures and videos of the meet ups and posting them to our community so people will log on after the event to check out the content?

I suppose the most difficult part of building a successful community is to give a reason for members to participate.

By: Melvin Ram

Melvin Ram — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 06:08:01 +0000

On the subject of mission statements, Guy Kawasaki covers mantra’s pretty well in The Art Of The Start. He gives a set of good examples and bad ones so it’s easy to see the difference.

Side note: Funny thing is I never finished that book. I just got started with what I needed to do.

By: Andrew Warner

Andrew Warner — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 18:15:07 +0000

I slept on it, and in retrospect, it might sound like I’m hard on Mormons or other faiths. It wasn’t my intention. I just want to plug useful ideas from wherever I can find them.

By: Nat'l Study of Youth and Religion

Nat'l Study of Youth and Religion — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 06:44:11 +0000

The 2005 National Study of Youth and Religion published by UNC-Chapel Hill found that Church of Jesus Christ (LDS) youth (ages 13 to 17) were more likely to exhibit these Christian characteristics than Evangelicals (the next most observant group):

1. Attend Religious Services weekly
2. Importance of Religious Faith in shaping daily life – extremely important
3. Believes in life after death
4. Does NOT believe in psychics or fortune-tellers
5. Has taught religious education classes
6. Has fasted or denied something as spiritual discipline
7. Sabbath Observance
8. Shared religious faith with someone not of their faith
9. Family talks about God, scriptures, prayer daily
10. Supportiveness of church for parent in trying to raise teen (very supportive)
11. Church congregation has done an excellent job in helping teens better understand their own sexuality and sexual morality

. LDS . Evangelical
1. 71% . . 55%
2. 52 . . . 28
3. 76 . . . 62
4. 100 . . 95
5. 42 . . . 28
6. 68 . . . 22
7. 67 . . . 40
8. 72 . . . 56
9. 50 . . . 19
10 65 . . . 26
11 84 . . . 35

So what do you think the motivation is to denigrate the Mormon Church? You would think preachers would be emulating Mormon practices (a creed to believe, a place to belong, a calling to live out, and a hope to hold onto) which were noted by Methodist Rev. Kenda Creasy Dean of the Princeton Theological Seminary, as causing Mormon teenagers to “top the charts” in Christian characteristics. It seems obvious pastors shouldn’t be denigrating a church with high efficacy.