Excellent post from FeverBee: If you want a successful community launch, you need a huge number of people ready and eager to join the day your interface is live. If you’re planning to start an online community in April. These ideas might help. April: Laying the foundations to become a community member…July: Launch
Heather Champ, speaking on communities. Star of SWSX too, by all accounts!
Why not encourage the use of real names, with the option of an editable ‘username field’ auto-populated by the first name/last name and titled ‘Name displayed’ or ‘Display name’? And for that to be non-unique (’cause the uniqueness is supplied by the profile)…
There’s been a great discussion about configuring forum discussions on e-mint recently (‘Discussions boards navigation/IA’), with one post from Ian Dickson sparking my interest on another level. He concluded his reply on the subject with the following ‘PS’: “it’s easier to simplify something that is overengineered than it is to complexify (?) something simple unless [...]
Loved this post from Community Guy, Jake McKee on why the Obama administration is the first social media government, quoting the value of offline and online communities to connect people in a common cause for good. Now wouldn’t it be great if this same theme was picked up by the UK Government? Just like your [...]
Nice example of the power of recommendation to build a community from Matt Rhodes’ FreshNetworks Blog: The growth came from the constant and ongoing growth work that the community management team have been doing. But the final push came when another community member picked up on some of this activity and started to talk about [...]
