Building Online Community Brick by Virtual Brick
RULES OF ONLINE COMMUNITIES
You can't own a community
Communities do not watnt to be owned.
Communities aren't free
anyone hosting the platform for a community to be built has some kind of interest in seeing that community grow.
At some point, organic communities need roots.
A community needs to have a structure to make sure the community grows.
Every communities needs leaderschip
There needs to be a driving force behind the community.
Community building is not all about the tools.
But the right tools can help the community to succeed.
A community dies if it's all about you.
A community should not be reliant on a single person. When that person goes, what happens to the community?