How to Create a Culture

Summary

The website content discusses the importance of cultivating a community culture within the Medium platform, emphasizing the need for collective effort to create, nurture, and grow a unique sub-culture that aligns with the vision and professional principles of the community.

Abstract

The author of the website content, a technologist and researcher with extensive industry experience, delves into the concept of a "Culture of ILLUMINATION" as it pertains to building a community culture on Medium. The article highlights the characteristics of an illuminating culture and the necessity of feeding and nurturing it for survival and growth, much like a biological ecosystem. The author reflects on their professional focus on transforming cultures and personal interest in multiculturalism, advocating for a collective effort to develop a desirable culture within the community of practice. The article calls for writers to contribute their perspectives on setting up, maintaining, and benefiting from this culture through documented thoughts and articles. The author also provides links to their other works on leadership, education, and lifestyle, showcasing their commitment to fostering a culture of excellence and continuous improvement.

Opinions

The author believes that culture is a collective manifestation of intellectual achievements and requires conscious effort to shape and maintain.
They emphasize that the Medium platform, while having a pleasant root culture, can be enhanced by creating a more satisfying and functional sub-culture within the community.
The author suggests that understanding the vision, strategy, values, goals, and objectives based on professional principles is crucial for developing a community culture.
They invite all writers to actively participate in documenting their vision for the community culture, contributing to its formation and growth.
The author values the importance of leadership and education in shaping culture and provides resources for readers to explore these topics further.
They acknowledge the multicultural nature of Medium and the potential for a community to form a distinct culture within this broader context.
The author's perspective on culture is informed by their experience with ethnic cultures globally and their efforts to transform cultures into desired states.

Background

Culture is an essential aspect of human life. Throughout history, we had many cultures emerged, progressed, ended; and the new ones came to life in many cycles. There are different types of cultures, such as ethnic culture, organizational culture, work culture, leadership culture, artistic culture, and many more.

Observing cultures has been an interest to me. My primary professional focus has been transforming cultures into the desired state. At the personal level, I fancied amalgamated, exotic, and unique cultures. The notion of multiculturalism has been a life choice for me. After experiencing many ethnic cultures through my work trips around the globe, living in a multicultural country turned out to be a blessing.

Based on my studies and experience, my understanding of culture is a collective manifestation of intellectual achievements. Leaving you with this abstract and encapsulated view, I want to focus on culture for the community of practices. In a previous article, I mentioned that our publication helped us to create a community of practice for content development, support, and dissemination.

Why do I highlight the culture in this context?

From my experience, I know that human cultures, just like biological cultures, require feeding and nurturing to survive and thrive. Ecosystem dynamics determine and are fed by culture. We are part of a content platform (Medium) turned into a complex ecosystem. The key components of this ecosystem are writers, readers, editors, curators, teams, publications, workflow system, support systems, and others.

Medium has a pleasant culture compared to many other similar platforms hosting writers and bloggers internationally. However, we are creating a sub-culture based on this root culture. Even though this is a reasonably functioning culture, we aim to transform the current culture to a more pleasant, better functioning, and more satisfying one, to be manifested in a community format. The analogy can be a charitable community in a country.

Being aware of this cultural shift is a critical success factor for our community. All of us need to understand that we are creating a new culture embedded in a bigger one. We can consider Medium a multicultural platform with many different publications and even languages.

My main point is that developing a culture requires a collective effort. To create a desirable culture, appealing to our community members, all of us need to contribute to the formation of this culture. We need to understand our vision, strategy, values, goals and objectives based on professional principles.

My idea is to invite all writers to consider the cultural aspect of our community and document their thoughts in an article. Your article will represent the way you want to see our community. Stemming from your personal and professional experience in your field, you can bring ideas about how we can set up this culture, feed it, grow it, and reap the benefits collectively.

Thank you for reading my perspectives.

I look forward to your feedback.

About the Author

I am a technologist, postdoctoral researcher, published author, editor, and digital marketing strategist with four decades of industry experience.

Culture of ILLUMINATION

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Background

Why do I highlight the culture in this context?

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