What Is It?

What is a community? Does it matter if (ironically) we can’t come together and agree? If I can get a group of people to feel

Investments

You need your members to invest in your community. You need their time, their energy and their emotions. If they don’t invest, they have nothing

Badges

Give your members badges to display, but only ones with real meaning. You wear a badge for pride. You want others to know your associations.

After the Texan

Most of us feel part of something special today. But that wont last forever. The big community boundary, hating George Bush, has flown back to

Start An Exchange Rate

You don't want to give up your 1122 posts.  It doesn’t matter how good my new community might be. You’ve invested a lot of time

Target A Far Bigger Audience

Try to get more people interested in your topic, otherwise you’re missing out. If you’re a Parkour clothing designer, you might launch a community to

Great News, The End Is Nigh

PsyBlog explains you enjoy an experience more when you know it’s going to end. You're more motivated to enjoy the time remaining. You feel happier

Madoff’s Lesson

From Kevin Connolly, BBC News. Membership of the Madoff fund was very strictly by invitation only – merely being rich was not enough in itself.

Building A Community For A New Web Service

Don’t start big, go as micro as you can get and build from there. Forget the big splash. Don’t promise huge publicity. In July, Cuil

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