![]() We can think of ontogenetic changes in morphology as trajectories in a two-dimensional space, where we have body size (commonly used as a representation of age) in the x-axis and another trait (e.g., head size) in the y-axis. These scientists laid out a conceptual framework that is still used today. It then comes as no surprise that ontogeny captured the attention of many influential evolutionary biologists. These examples illustrate how growth and development (ontogeny) can have a large impact on the biology of organisms. In a very dramatic example, the morphology of caterpillars and butterflies has evolved to efficiently solve their most pressing priorities: eating for one, breeding for the other. Babies and adults of the same species may also show wildly different body types that reflect how the individuals in each of these life stages interact with their environment. However, adult leatherbacks are formidable hunters of soft-bodied animals and have few natural predators. As we have learned from tearful nights watching nature documentaries, those poor souls are the favourite snack of every animal on the beach. For starters, babies are usually much smaller and this impacts how they interact with the world. Resilience will serve you well as your community / business grows.Babies and adults of most animals are very different from each other. So start small, learn and grow from there - as we say making it minimum loveable.Īnd don’t get too disheartened if you don’t get the results you’d hoped for. I know this all sounds like a lot of work and it is.īut I only discovered Mighty Networks at the turn of 2018 and we did a soft launch just 2 weeks later. ![]() Finally we created a nice landing page sharing our vision using our creative and design chops.We’re a paid community ($29–35 a month) and this means those that join are committed. We have just under 200 members now and plan to put a limit at 500 members. Like our events we believe less is more to build strong connections. Our community is deliberately small and we like it that way.We seeded content under each theme before we launched - with our best articles, top books, interviews and classes that we already had from our archives (and if we didn’t we created them).We have a monthly content calendar with a different theme each month where we plan our content and webinars for the month (our themes are: success, vision, creativity, design, tech, storytelling, branding, marketing, leadership, money, productivity, wellbeing).We created tip videos to help new members get familiar with the platform.Polls and questions work great and help to get those not normally comfortable to engage with us and others (one of the reasons our contribution rate is more than 75%).We’re learning that small, bitesized bits of content work best - and people love video they can watch now more than live events they have to be available for. We’re learning and improving every day, listening to members and responding to what we feel is and isn’t working.Where possible we add our own photos, videos and great copy to make it fun, simple and welcoming. I could see how we could harness the platform to achieve our goals, and create a great experience for our members. Good design has always been at the heart of everything we do so we were so excited to stumble upon MN.We geeked up on how other Mighty Networks operated and were shown the way by the supportive Mighty Hosts community. ![]() We already had a paid community and a tribe of people that have met in the real world which made the move easier.Crucially we explained the thinking behind the move so people understood the reasons behind it and why it was for the greater good.We made it clear we’re closing our other channels, so the message was if you value what we do and the community we’re building it’s MN or else (or wait for one of our real world events). ![]() It’s working for us and here’s why I think that is: Here’s 12 reasons why…Ī month ago I wrote a post to explain why we were moving our community off Facebook and Slack to Mighty Networks got a lot of interest, so I wanted to write a follow-up post to share our learnings so far. Our move to Mighty Networks seems to be working.
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