O'Reiley Network(Page 1)

Below are some thoughts and notes on the article Alayna WHite sent regarding online communities.



Exist for a Reason

-Every site must exist for a reason, what benefits can each user get form the website?

-Users will persure there own goal if it isnt outlined in your plan.

-Remain positive and simple as possible.


Users Draw Other Users

-It is our job to attract users, all standard procedures apply(links, search engines, word of mouth etc).

-Hard part is making the right users stick around. Beucase your most active users will draw more users than we can.

-Monitor traffic logs, becuase it will give us growth patterns.


Users will surprise you

-Issues and themes we find important may never resonater with the users. People will latch onto and chase down ideas we never though existed.



A sense of ownership

-Generally users wil contribute more to the site than we weill. Becuase of this we must respond to thier needs and expand the system.

-Let commuinity leaders and members perform administrative work.