Month: November 2010

Spending $40k on a community platform before you even have a community is stupid. You don’t need to spend a lot of money to launch

Content is overrated. There’s too much of it. It’s hard to produce the best content. It’s costly and time-consuming to get the latest, breaking, news

Are you struggling to stimulate activity in your online community? Do you have lots of members but little participation. Try asking the sorts of questions

We don’t have enough success stories, that’s a shame. Here are some thriving online communities you might like to explore. Mumsnet. My favourite community. Highly

Many products have thriving online communities. In these communities customers visit to ask questions about the products. Other members address those problems, often in exchange

Fred writes that sustainable online communities have a cause. I’m not sure that’s true. Very few thriving examples of online communities are cause-orientated. They don’t

It should be easy for both members and non-members to contact the community manager. Contact details should be clearly visible. You shouldn’t  need to register

We don’t have enough success stories, that’s a shame. Here are 15 thriving online communities you might want to explore. Note, now you can also

Your approach to developing communities should be deeply rooted in psychology. So why aren’t you very good at psychology? Why haven’t you used theory to