Month: March 2011

Trade conferences are fertile ground for recruiting active community members. Hook up a big monitor. Load up your community. Have big questions appear on the

The conversations that take place in a community should be very similar to those that take place in your day to day life.  What are

Naming a community is difficult. Most companies do a terrible job of it. Element14 is a good name. It’s symbolic. If you’re a part of

It would help to have a few written paragraphs explaining a few unwritten rules of the community.  Sounds dumb, doesn’t it? But online communities aren’t

How many businesses fail to get their community off the ground? How many businesses struggle to sustain high levels of active members and keep members

Communties succeed when they reach a critical mass of activity, not a critical mass of members. If you think you need lots of members to

If you’ve been reading FeverBee for a while, I’m hoping you can help me. Iwant to know more about the people that read my blog.

Traditional community efforts fight against the wind.  You don't bring people together to build a community. You do something interesting and fun that brings them

Ed called yesterday’s post on community symbol systems mindless wiffle. Writing about communities can be easy. You can tell people you need to have a