Developing Online Communities?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Friday February 24, 2006 @06:56PM from the from-the-ground-up dept.

Johnny asks: "I'm involved with a project that is looking to develop an online community for technology oriented business customers. Although there are various communities on the web, there is no centralized source of information for the customers. If you could develop an online community to encourage collaboration and information sharing, what features would you want included? How would you go about including features that are widely available in other places (weblogging, message boards, wiki) and generating buy-in from customers."

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doh by slashdotnickname · 2006-02-24 19:43 · Score: 2, Funny

Signs that your project to start an online technical community is off on the wrong foot:

1) Ask an already established technical community "how to begin"
2) Stating a goal of "generating buy-in from customers" in the same sentence that admits "features that are widely available in other [free] places"