I’ve been using Twitter since February or March of this year. In the past five or six months, I’ve successfully connected with business professionals in ways I hadn’t expected. Last month several Twitterers in Central Virginia met together for the first time to put faces with user names. Here are some of the valuable lessons I’m learning as this community emerges:

• Community is built on shared interests, experiences and values
• Good things happen when people connect
• Early adapters are inspirational
• People pursue community with some degree of intentionality, excitement and intrepidation

So what about you? Am I on track or way off base? What lessons have you learned about community?

P.S. The second Central Virginia tweetup is scheduled for Thursday, August 28 at 5:45 p.m. at Hilton Garden Inn, Wards Road, Lynchburg. The event is dutch treat; wi-fi is free. RSVP by Tuesday, August 26th via Twitter to Cheryl Smith or Lee Graham or click here to email. Feel free to call or text 434.258.2448. I hope to see you then!

Photo by Simon Greig, Creative Commons license.