From Weak Ties to Strong Ties: Community vs. Social Networks 3

Hello Mike, something I am interested in, is  DNA when time and events within a group of communities perpetuate the making of strong ties because of the event and the timing of it.  Is not my social network enhanced when two or more communities come together around this event and it's timing? For instance, if I am interested in a particular LEED standard test analysis that a local green organization, Build it Green has to offer, I might join their community and listen in. Then I might join a similar dialogue going on within the United States Green Building Council, a national community, on the same topic, all because of a seminar on the subject coming to my area. When one program lends it's expertise to another, say in a local testing service for the national standards, then the possibility of my linking to both communities and the interconnectivity between the two communities, allows me greater chances for my own social networking and those people coming together for that event, at that point in time Does that make sense?

I am a novice at this kind of thinking, being that I am a designer by trade, yet the prospects of using the 'community to community' linking fascinates me. Isn't it sort of the way you describe the familiarity accessed by one individual because of their community affiliations or interests?   But instead, one community is bolstered because of events and their timing, by those following such events and seeking information from a multitude of communities. Would that not also be a form of Dynamics Network Analysis?

Carolyn