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As a part of a community, how can we ensure that we avoid becoming a big hegemonious community where we all do more of the same?
From where it stands things are looking good. In our Toronto social media community we have folks of all types:

Social change
Marketing
PR
Entrepreneurs
Start-ups
Students
Agencies
Developers
and more…

Well wait a second, that list looks pretty good, [...]

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I haven’t read the book Here Comes Everybody by Clay Shirky yet, but from hearing conversations about it I do know that one of the points in the book is that technology now lets people on demand from ad hoc groups that join together and accomplish specific goals, which after accomplishing the goal [...]