Month: August 2014

Communities can improve your SEO Type chickens into Google and Rob Ludlow’s Backyard Chickens is the second result. SEO can improve communities. You can get more traffic

Be very careful about being the outsider. It’s almost impossible to build a community from a group of people if you’re not one of them.

There is an overhyped fear that members might get upset.  I'm really not too worried if members get upset. I'd rather they didn't get upset, but

Zappos recently dropped their jobs board in favour of a talent community. Jobs will no longer be advertised. Jobs seekers join and participate in the

You should borrow as many ideas event, discussion, and content ideas from successful communities as you can. A few examples of these. Visit 5 communities

I remember drafting this 3.5 years ago.  Every rule still stands. Respond to discussions about the brand. Most communities have a search feature. Use this to

Following from yesterday. It’s hard to find interesting stories about your members. If you’re having a slow day, here are a few tips: 1) Ask

Many of you know this already. If you’re looking for news about the community space, try the news page of CommunityGeek.  It’s devoid of fluff