Being “One of you” is important. Have you seen the post on “Bridges” in online networks?
I also feel as “one of me”, and I feel like a bridge in my offline life and my academic life.
I, I, I, I, I am trying to act as a bridge online as well, particularly between pedagogical and technological communities. I see my best role online as crossfeeding these communities (and subcomminities), importing ideas from elsewhere and sharing them back where I feel they would be most helpful at the time (what and with whom changes with time, and seems to match @hrheingold’s description of his own role as a co-learner).

You point out that you yourself belong to many online communities, but view your interaction mostly with individuals within them: #digped #rhizo14 #clmooc and now #ccourses.

I was wondering what you thought about the “bridges” idea. The post I am referring to is here:
http://www.pewinternet.org/2014/02/20/mapping-twitter-topic-networks-from-polarized-crowds-to-community-clusters/