Community Health

In a session this morning, exploring metrics of health in an online commuinty. Which made me immediately currious about the characteristics of a healthy ecosystem:

• Vigour - the activity or rate of processes, e.g. slow/steady primary production)
• Organisation - healthy ecosystems have a complex structure, e.g. high biodiversity, complex food webs
• Resilience - a system’s capacity to maintain structure and function in the presence of stress; healthy ecosystems can recover after a disturbance

( Via What is ecosystem health? - Ecosystem Health Monitoring Program )

I would love to discuss how these map to online communities in the comments, and then update the post from your feedback.