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Not Free Agents. Guild Members!

By Becky McCray

How do you envision the future for skilled workers? Especially those of us outside the metro areas.

Chris Brogan’s post Not Free Agents. Guild Members! is the starting point for a novel vision. Take your skills anywhere in the world and know that you will have access to the larger market because you are a guild member. Now that is a vision!

My suggestion for the crazy first steps?

  • Join your trade association. Get involved. Help push the organization to a real online presence.
  • Join your trade’s online forums. Get involved. Don’t have any? Start one!
  • Find and make friends with other people with your skills, across the country or around the world. Share info constantly.

How many people do you want in your guild? Start with six. Let that community of six spawn more sixes. Why six? It is the magic number for community building at a scale where you can still care. Or at least that’s what I read online.


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Becky started Small Biz Survival in 2006 to share rural business and community building stories and ideas with other small town business people. She and her husband have a small cattle ranch and are lifelong entrepreneurs. Becky is an international speaker on small business and rural topics.
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February 26, 2006 Filed Under: community, entrepreneurship, rural Tagged With: Climate

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  1. Chris says

    March 3, 2006 at 5:40 am

    This is great! It’s exciting to see the conversation carry on. I’m interested in the number six part of the discussion. I can’t disagree, but am wondering why that number works.

  2. Becky McCray says

    March 3, 2006 at 2:05 pm

    Chris, thanks for stopping by! I’ll start a new post with more on the Community of Six idea.

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  1. A community of Six says:
    May 17, 2013 at 9:05 pm

    […] Thanks, Chris Brogan for dropping by to comment on “Not Free Agents. Guild Members!” […]

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