Wednesday, 27 June 2012

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What Community Building Is All About

By Thelma Kent


The exercise of trying to make a community out of different individuals is what is termed as community building. It can be carried out within a certain geographic region or between individuals who share common interests. It entails trying to develop authentic relationships among humans.

A community's well being is based on the relations of the citizens and therefore it is essential to enhance these relationships. The sense of well being created by these relationships impacts on the general health of the society. According to some professionals these is called social capital. Because of systems like education, spiritual, healthcare, recreation and business people have to work together and understand each other. Good relationships also increase social justice.

There exists vary many activities that people can engage in to enhance their relationships. These exercises include participation in small clubs and small social gatherings to the large construction projects and festivals among others. Even the larger functions should involve the local people only so as to improve their relationships.

You are probably wondering what impact does technology have on enhancing togetherness between people? Technology has come up with internet and mobile phones to say the least. Through the internet training environments have been set up online so that people can develop the sense of a community though they are far apart.

By using mobile phones and the internet it is easy to have educational settings that enhance a sense of communal interaction. This is done through emailing and texting. Internet applications and mobile phone applications have therefore been developed to serve this purpose.

To enable people carry on with their activities through the internet and mobile networks software application shave had to be developed. For example tools like Google Docs enable people to share documents online while Flickr is used to exchange photos. Among the various activities carried out to enhance community building are online gaming, chatting, group stories and sharing poems among others.




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