According to Wikipedia Indonesia, the Community is a social group of some organisms that share the environment, generally having the same interests and habitats. In the human community, the individuals in it can have purpose, trust, resources, preferences, needs, risks and a number of other similar conditions. The community comes from the Latin communitas meaning "commonality", can then be derived from communis which means "equal, public, divided by all or many".
In the neighborhood of course we will get a lot of variety from this community. The simplest example is a collection of mothers who regularly organize social gatherings once a month, this collection of mothers is clearly worthy of being called a community. And the presence of the Internet certainly adds to the diversity of this community because communication between members should not be done face to face but can also be done through online media such as through an online discussion forum, mailing list, blog or by utilizing social networking services like facebook or twitter.
So what's the advantage if we join this community? Based on the posts I took from the INETA Asia Pacific blog site, there are at least 7 advantages that we can get, namely:
Learning - A learning opportunity that is always open to all members of the community.
Networking - An opportunity to expand networks and connections. And of course the opportunity to get new friends.
Sharing Experiences - Experience is the best teacher. By joining the community there will be many opportunities to share experiences with other members.
Job Opportunities - Job Opportunities are obviously more open because it begins with friendships that occur within the community.
Meeting Experts - Among all members of course there are some members who are already included in the category of experts. Their expertise and experience will certainly be shared with other community members as well.
Solutions to Problems - Helping each other is a hallmark of a community. If we are dealing with a problem, then the other members will work together to help solve the problem.
Free Giveaways - Goodies are usually scattered within an active community. Maybe it could be for shirts, pins or special software that is only distributed to members of the community only.
The seven points are already representative of what we can get from a community, but of course these points will only apply to the active community only and of course if you are also active in the community :)
So and hopefully this short post is pointless.
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mantap