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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Selling communities. by hitchhikerjim · 2006-02-24 21:33 · Score: 4, Interesting

"community" and "customers"

sort of opposite concepts. In one, people are choosing to work together on something. in the other there's a central power who's trying to get a group to buy something.

The biggest failure of "online communities" in the 'net days is that most of them are corporate sponsored marketing schemes rather than actual communities.