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?