Good Reading on Community Building

[Will.Spencer]

Martin Reed's Community Spark is a good site for community building tips.

Our own Jasonp has recently launched Forum Promotion, which looks like a very promising contribution to this topic.

What do you read to give you ideas and motivation to build your online community?

[Will.Spencer]

Richard Millington's FeverBee is another great resource.

Here are some of the top posts:

• How Do You Build An Online Community?
• 12 Ways To Doom Your Community Before You Launch
• Basic Tactics To Grow Your Online Community Without Any Promotion
• A List of Things A Community Builder Does
• 20 Ways To Start A Community
• 6 Concepts That Matter
• Fame, Money, Sex, Power
• 12 Ideas For Launching Your Online Community
• A 3 Month Pre-Community Strategy
• In It Together
• 6 Unexpectedly Brilliant Books About Building Online Communities
• Building A Community For A New Web Service
• 5 Important Lessons For Building A Community
• How To Find Your Community's First Members
• Developing Forum Communities

[GameOver]

There are also lots of great articles and resources at Admin Zone Forums - Discussion Forums & Resources for Online Community Administrators.

[Will.Spencer]

GeeOne showed me 10 Tips for Promoting Your Forum at SEORefugee.

It's a pretty nice article with some good common sense advice.

It's companion article, Top Ten Lessons I've Learned About Managing an Online Forum is also well worth reading.

[texashiker]

Good basic pointers for starting your forum. I like how he mentions having a blog and a forum, because that is exactly what I have done.

I also like how "Be Unique" is listed as #1. Because you have to be different and you have to be unique.

but in the end, the article just repeats what has already been posted all over the internet.

[sturat]

I wrote this article for GeeOne

Top Tips to Promote Your Forum