What other people think community is

OK, as part of my role I have been trying to find out information about community, whether exclusive online communities or physical communities that use online resources to facilitate parts of the community interaction.

Jake, the Community Guy, works for the LEGO company, but is an evangalist for Community involvement relating to online communities and also the interaction between corporate businesses and their customers. Jake has been trying to define Community in his own blog and this post is his third attempt at the question of 'What is Community'.

http://www.communityguy.com/index.cfm?commentID=189

Now I know some of you might switch off part of the way down the post, but please endure and try to read through all of the comments that are attached to the post. It becomes a very interesting debate about active and non-active (lurkers) community members.

I loved the whole 'going to church' line of thought.....