This is a collection of my favourite and most popular posts from the last two years. It should give you a great overview about both the strategy any the process of creating an online community from scratch.
Before You Begin
- The 11 Fundamental Laws Of Online Communities
- How Do You Build An Online Community?
- The Biggest Benefit Of Building Online Communities
Pre-Launch and Strategy
- A Simple Formula For A Successful Online Community
- 12 Ways To Doom Your Community Before You Launch
- A 3-month Pre-Launch Strategy
- 100 Online Community Ideas
- They Already Do It (Or Want To)
- 2 Short Cuts To A Successful Online Community
- Don’t Compete With Your Own Fans
- Base Your Online Community Around Real People
- 5 Important Lessons For Building An Online Community
- Don’t Target The Wrong People
- How To Make An Accurate Membership Projection
Building An Online Community Website
- How To Design Your Online Community
- Free Online Community Websites
- Test Before You Invest
- The Essential Element Of Your Homepage
- Building A Community For A New Website
- Developing Forum Communities
- The Best Online Community Building Tool On The Planet
- A Great Examples Of Game Mechanics In Online Communities
Launching An Online Community
- How To Find Your Community’s First Members
- Ideas For Launching Your Online Community
- 20 Ways To Start An Online Community
- Create An Easy Reason To Take A Small Step
- Community Building 100.5
- How Small Businesses can Launch Successful Online Communities
- Simple Steps To Creating An Online Community
- You Can Launch An Online Community In 10 Seconds
- Seeding Your Online Community
Growing Your Online Community
- Why People Aren’t Joining Your Online Community
- How To Get More People To Join Your Online Community
- Basic Tactics To Grow Your Online Community Without Any Promotion
- 3 Perfectly Acceptable Ways To Invite Someone To Join Your Online Community
- Using Hashtags To Grow Your Online Community
- Growing From A Social Media Following To Small Groups
- How To Persuade Your Employees To Join Your Online Community
- An Easy Way To Add A Few More Members
- The Problem With Asking Members To Invite Friends
- A Free Invite With Every Purchase
Increasing Participation
- Why People Join And Participate In Online Communities
- People Will Participate In This Community Because…
- 9 Ideas To Revive Your Stale Online Community
- 4 Types Of Contributions You Want Your Members To Make
- 7 Kinds Of Conversations That Always Stimulate Activity
- Fame, Money, Sex, Power
- 10 Excellent Rewards You Can Offer Members That Don’t Cost A Penny
- Why People Stay In Your Online Community
- The Only Way To Keep Everyone Active
- The Big Truth About Motivating Members
- Create A Guide To Be A Top Member
- The Secret To Awesome Content
- Trade Control For Participation
- Writing Content That Bonds Your Online Community
- Every Online Community Needs A Local Newspaper
- Create A Welcome Pack
Managing an Online Community
- A List Of Things A Community Builder Does
- The Unlimited Supply Of Important Work You Need To Do
- The Difference Between Good and Bad Moderators
- Why People Get Aggressive In Your Online Community
- Bonding A Community: The Final Step
- How To Handle Troublemakers
- Why Fights Are So Important
- When Should You Quit?
- Power And Influence
- Never Reward Your Volunteers
- Community Guidelines
- 6 Social Psychology Hacks For Online Community Managers
- 5 Features Of Really Strong Online Communities You Can Embrace
Measurement/ROI
- Community Health Index
- What Matters (and what doesn’t)
- This Wasn’t Part Of The Plan
- How To Check Your Community builder Is Doing As Promised
- A Faith Challenge
- Measuring DIY
- Proving Benefits Of Building A Community
- Me And You, Them And Us
Monetizing
- 10 Ideas To Make Money From Your Online Community
- Becoming A Community Intrapreneur
- 40 Ways To Make Money From Your Online Community
- The Pros And Cons Of Charging For Membership
- Community Souvenirs
Branded Online Communities
- A Requirement For Branded Online Communities
- Decide Between These 2 Types Of Communities
- 6 Huge Advantages Big Organizations Have Over Amateur Community Builders
- How Do Online Communities Make Your Business Money?
- Why Amateurs Build Better Online Communities Than Businesses
- The Usual Errors From The Big Brands
- Failed Corporate Communities
- Your Dream Online Community
- Never Let Your Company Start An Online Community
Resources
- 10 Examples Of Great Online Communities
- A Simple Example Of A Great Online Community
- 8 Brilliant Posts About Online Communities
- Essential Reading For Online Community Managers
- Perhaps The Best Online Community I’ve Seen
Misc
- Great Findings From Social Sciences Applied To Online Communities
- Creating A Community From Your Social Media Efforts
- The 7 Most Likely Ways Your Online Community Will End
- Struggling To Build An Online Community? Try This Easier Approach
- The Easiest Solutions To Your Community’s Biggest Problems
- 10 Steps To Building An Online Community In Your Spare Time
