I hate Community Management

Charlie Ehin

a.k.a. Why I Think 'manager' is the worst word to follow the word 'community'

I prefer the phrase Community Cultivation and try to map all tasks and skills against gardening metaphors:

• planting seeds
• mindfulness about environmental factors
• neighborhood kids who like to kick over the tomatoes
• too much water is bad
• not enough water is bad
• fallow fields
• weeding
• harvest time
• sharing with and helping the neighbors
• getting up early
• canning

What would you add to the list?

or What metaphors do you use?