It should give you a great overview about both the strategy and the process of creating an online community from scratch. The Online Community Basics. Primer About Successful Online Communities. The 11 Fundamental Laws of Online Communities. The Four Tenets Of Professional Community Managers. Building An Online Community: How You Start With 0 Members. How Do You Build An Online Community? Contrary Truths About Online Communities. Don’t Start A Community For Any Of These Reasons. Basics Community Building Principles. Content. MORE >>

Great picture and post on the Information Overload Paradox : The post talks about the issue of overload: I can certainly consume more content than I could two decades ago, but no matter how much content is available, I can’t consume much more. And relative to the sheer volume of content available to me, I’m actually consuming a smaller percentage every day. Let’s assume that you believe that to be true and you want to essentially become a publisher of the best content focused on a specific topic.  Or does content need to flow into your existing site? Curation. MORE >>

Here are the first 1,100 words of the chapter on B2B social communities from my forthcoming book, co-authored with Eric Schwartzman, entitled Social Marketing to the Business Customer. The rest of the chapter will go into the various kinds of social communities and how to use them, with examples from the HR, food service, medical and construction industries. Does it set the stage for a deeper discussion of social communities? Spiceworks does a very good job of managing B2B communities. As the community grows, so does the value of the resource to all involved. MORE >>

As part of our continuing series to help you in developing compelling content, today we provide you a list of the top 11 online resources to help you improve your writing skills. The Elements of Style – there is no better resource for writers than William Strunk’s classic. OWL – The OWL is Purdue University’s online writing lab that features free writing resources and instructional material. Writing: The Online Community For Writers – Need to get advice from other writers? Time To Write – Need inspiration? Well, here you go. MORE >>

Reading and writing and creating some new kinds of content (new for me) next year has taken up a lot of my thinking over the past few weeks. And demanding engagement with the promise of community implicit in its form. “ demanding engagement with the promise of community implicit in its form. Mod goes on to list some of the potential changes that will be wrought upon the publishing system, from beginning to end: Engagement with readers (the building of community and conversation) begins immediately in the pre-artifact system. am making some changes here shortly. MORE >>