Best Practices for Successful Online Communities

 

Came across this cool piece of information. If your planning on creating a social site then take a quick look over these pointers. You may learn a thing or two!

1.Build an open vs. closed community

2.If you build it, they don’t necessarily come

3.Well integrated to the rest of the Website

4.Adequate staffing/moderation resources

5.Highly transparent, meaningful member ratings

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