Richard Millington is the founder of FeverBee Limited, an online community consultancy, and The Pillar Summit, an exclusive course in Professional Community Management. Richard's clients have included the United Nations, The Global Fund, Novartis, Oracle, OECD, BAE Systems, AMD and several youth & entertainment brands. Richard is also the the author of the Online Community Manifesto.
e-mail: richard@feverbee.com Tel:+44 (0)20 7792 2469
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I'm not a member of any online communities that are the efforts of brand owners to capitalize on that brand.
I am a member of a college football community owned by Yahoo, branded as Rivals, and driven by the brand of University of Georgia football.
I'm also a member of the phandroid forums around the Motorola Droid and the Android OS.
Beyond that, I'm not really active in any forums.
Posted by: Chuck | Tuesday, 09 February 2010 at 19:22
The moneysavingexpert.com forum is great and of course I enjoy the Gumtree forum as well cause I run it!
Posted by: Jonin60seconds | Wednesday, 10 February 2010 at 13:58
I love Biznik.com - Business Networking That Doesn't Suck.
My husband and I cofounded Biznik in 2005 as a response to the business networking opportunities out there, that frankly - we thought sucked. Our mottos are: collaboration beats competition, relationships or more important than referrals, and you're going to get a lot further by giving to than selling to.
If you're an indie business person (such as a freelancer or independent contractor) and you're feeling isolated and invisible - you need to be networking with others just like you. Biznik combines an online community with in-person meetings.
Posted by: Lara Feltin | Wednesday, 10 February 2010 at 22:26
YAP (Young Association Professionals at yapstar.org is my community, that I love and is awesome. We work with associations and noonprofits and there are a LOT Of great examples in those industries.
Posted by: Maddiegrant | Sunday, 14 February 2010 at 04:08
I read many of your hints and ideas and i have to say that they are mostly great. But there is one unanswered question/section to me. What to do if you had a bigger community in the past, but now its dying. I mean less and less active members, just a few new articles a day. Seems to be difficult to stop this process. And if the forum once got more inactive, how to atract new members, if there is not too much going on anymore. Do you know something about this too?
Posted by: Asker | Wednesday, 17 February 2010 at 10:29