Month: January 2009

Are you developing individuals or a group? Neither is bad, but they’re very different. If your community is for individuals to improve themselves, you can

You don’t need a critical mass of people to create momentum. You need a critical mass of activity. Activity is energy that causes members to

Schedule a time for members to visit your community. In those first few weeks you need to stop members arriving, noticing a lack of activity

At least 60% of jobs aren’t advertised. The remaining 40% are fiercely competitive, less fun and not so well paid. But no-one’s too sure how

Communities need boundaries to exist, but too many rely on registration to distinguish between "us” and “them”. Your boundaries need to be tougher than that.

If your favourite organisation doesn’t have a community, start building one. If you’re in a community you like, promote it as much as you can.

If you want popular bloggers to join or write about your community, cram as much value into your invite as you possibly can 1) Explain

That’s not an acronym. Quite literally, it means why not try using dumb objectives? Get 50% of our community using a word we’ve made up.

Do SMART objectives drive your community? They're really crippling it. Business communities have a terrible failure rate. Your objectives are a huge part of the