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Feedback wanted: New Community Spark blog design
Community developers should always involve their members in decision making. As regular readers will know, I consider this blog to be a community; therefore I would like to give you all the opportunity to give me your feedback on a new blog design.
A couple of weeks ago I asked for your help choosing a new [...]
Building a community: Choosing a CMS
This is the seventh article in what I hope will be an indefinite series about the processes involved in developing a brand new community from scratch. I am currently developing a brand new online community and will detail its development on this blog. As I have said before, I think it is far easier to [...]
Is your website ready for a chat room?
Many community developers hope to introduce live chat features into their community website at some stage. Online chat rooms can be a fantastic addition to a website if they are well moderated and well used. This article will take you through the steps you need to consider before you add a chat room to your [...]
5 ways to attract members to a social networking site
One of the best ways to attract members for your online community is through the quality of your content. If you have high quality, unique, relevant and up-to-date content then you are far more likely to attract members. The same goes for blogs - if you are writing quality articles, you will naturally attract visitors. [...]
Building a community: Design revisions and coding
This is the sixth article in what I hope will be an indefinite series about the processes involved in developing a brand new community from scratch. I am currently developing a brand new online community and will detail its development on this blog. As I have said before, I think it is far easier to [...]
How to fire a forum moderator
Three weeks ago I wrote an article entitled, ‘How to respond if a forum moderator goes crazy‘. You should always work to resolve problems with your moderators amicably however, this may not always be possible. Consequently, the time may come when you need to fire a forum moderator. In this article I will offer my [...]
What to consider when starting a new online community
I enjoy answering questions from readers of this blog. Whilst I tend to encourage that these questions be asked within the comments sections of individual articles, at times the question may be unrelated to a specific article and consequently an email is best.
Today I want to answer a question I received by email from a [...]
Help needed: A new logo for Community Spark
As regular readers of this blog will know, I strongly believe that online community developers need to involve their members when it comes to decision making. I am currently working on a complete redesign for Community Spark, and the first step is designing a new logo.
I have ten concepts for you all to look at, [...]
Five tips every blogger needs to consider
The explosion in the number of blogs doesn’t seem to be slowing down, and I doubt it will for quite some time. With so many blogs out there, many bloggers will find it a struggle to get their voice heard. In this article, I will offer five basic tips that every blogger should consider.
1 - [...]
Things I’ve learnt from running a forum for 4 years
Greg is a Slovenian tech journalist, writing articles about social media, Linux and open source for the tech magazine Software Power. He also maintains his own Web productivity blog and is a big fan of CommunitySpark, whose author quite curiously got his first computer in the same year as Greg.
Introduction
It seems like it was just [...]