| Links: 9 Timeless Principles For Building Community
Most Web developers are familiar with the technical and design aspects of creating a great site. This article builds on that knowledge, and provides an overview of the social aspects of a thriving, successful Web community. The following nine design principles are drawn from my experiences designing Web communities for a wide variety of clients. These ideas can help you address the social issues you'll encounter as you create, build, and run your own Web community.
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If you're a web marketer running a site, Blogs organized around your industry can be a great way of building community and buzz about your site. As blockbuster sites like VerticalNet have shown, combining information with community can be a powerful mix. Creating your own Web Log for your product can let you combine customer support with customer input and vertical market news in one compelling package.
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AccountantsWorld—comprised of forums, industry news, links, continuing education, and free financial calculators, among other resources—takes a unique spin by offering free Web site design and one year of hosting to its members. So far, about 1,000 members have taken advantage of the free offer, says Lawrence Zuckerman, vice president of Micro Vision and the site’s director of content development.
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I'm here today to tell you the dos-and-don'ts of building a website community, but I can only give general guidelines. Every community is different, and every administrator of a community is different, so an aspiring community leader needs to adjust adjust accordingly. ...In case you were wondering, the title is a bit of a joke, building a website into a vibrant community filled with many contributors is very difficult and is impossible to break down the exact steps, but I'll do my best. [Digital Web Magazine 08/2001]
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'You must know why your site exists. Otherwise, you cannot judge the effectiveness of any policy. Worse yet, how will visitors know if they want to join the community? What benefit does a user derive from participating? Why should anyone care? Without an underlying goal, it's extremely difficult to guide users in constructive ways. It would be like starting a company and forgetting that, at some point, you need paying customers. ' [O'reilly 21/10/2002]
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This article discusses common assumptions about online communities that nonprofits can overcome and then lists resources for delving further into what it takes to build and maintain effective online communities. [Benton Foundation, 2000]
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What exactly is community? Why do some communities thrive and others fail? What (if anything) can we do to ensure successful communities? There are three web thinkers who have particularly useful insights in these areas: Amy Jo Kim, Marc Rettig, and Howard Rheingold. We'll look at their ideas and recommendations in this guide.
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After years of hype, companies are finally learning to profit from their Web communities. [Forbes 11/12/2000] Registratie verplicht
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My focus is on the graphical virtual worlds that have recently been released – worlds that have added a 2-D or 3-D visual representation of a space to go along with the more traditional text communication that occurs in such systems as MUDs or IRC. I speak as a sociologist who specializes in the study of cooperation, exchange, and collective action in communities, both online and face-to-face. [Peter Kollock, UCLA, 1998]
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Along with examining the evolution and importance of web communities, we will explore the 12 Principles of Civilization, with an emphasis on articulating ways to grow successful communities online. We will focus on the tools of web community and see how these ideas help define – and drive– the development of successful web communities. We will look at how pervasive web communities are becoming in vertical portals, on corporate sites, and in business exchanges. And we
will examine tomorrow’s web community, found in many business model settings, as it becomes a necessary component to achieving financial success. [Realcommunities Inc. 08/2000] PDF-file
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