Month: May 2010

Launching one online community is hard. Launching 3 at the same time is just dumb. You can’t concentrate your effort if you’re launching 3 online

Why do members need you to create the community? It’s not the lack of web design skills, there are dozens of cheap/free online community platforms.

Filling out your profile when you join a community is a tedious task. You’ve done it on dozens of other communities and very few people

Noise used to be caused by advertising (the average American sees 3000 per day), soon it will be interactions. In a world oversupplied with human-generated

This is the beginning of something big. What happens if every resident on your street participates in your online community? Wouldn't it improve the value

The overwhelming number of communities you hear about have hundreds of thousands or members. They grew overnight in a huge explosion. Facebook has 500m members

We all gather in interconnected clusters. You’ve probably seen a cluster map somewhere. Think of it like social groups in a playground. Friends gather in

If you’re about a new online community, here are some things you should be worrying about. Developing a core group of members. Develop a core

Millions of community interest pages are about to appear on Facebook. These pages will be formed by our stated interests. If you and I both