Posts Tagged ‘Community building’

WordPressMU + BuddyPress is very, very cool

Posted by tom.altman on September 9th, 2008
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Working on installing the BuddyPress (community building tools) from Automattic.  It must be installed with WordPress MU (MultiUser), but that is more of a benifit than a drawback.  This is very cool – I’m having some issues with the install, but the maillist is proving to be helpful. Could use a bit more documentations – but I’m enjoying the challenge.

Please let me know if you working on any install of this combo yourself.

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Building Online Community Brick by Virtual Brick

Posted by tom.altman on April 28th, 2008
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Web Worker Daily had a great post yesterday about building online communities:

1. You can’t own a community.
2. Communities aren’t free.
3. Every community needs leadership.
4. A community dies if it is all about you.
5. At some point, organic communities need roots.
6. Community building is not all about the tools.

This is really great stuff – and the just of it all is online community building is hard.  The best bet is just getting people involved who are passionate about the subject.

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