I own a readers' and writers' community, and do a lot of reading looking for ways to improve my content and offerings. The book had a number of truly useful bits of information, observations, and suggestions --
Integrate live with static content
Build in barriers -- they matter
Bury the post button
Try out some new tools like weblogs
Offer user moderation of user-created content
Due to my community back-end, some of these have been tough to implement, but I managed workarounds, and like my results.
For an independent site owner with a targeted and focused community, the book offers some great advice. More commercial or more diverse sites might find it less useful.
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- Integrate live with static content
- Build in barriers -- they matter
- Bury the post button
- Try out some new tools like weblogs
- Offer user moderation of user-created content
Due to my community back-end, some of these have been tough to implement, but I managed workarounds, and like my results. For an independent site owner with a targeted and focused community, the book offers some great advice. More commercial or more diverse sites might find it less useful.