A List Apart: Articles: Community: From Little Things, Big Things Grow - The Diigo Meta page

• 04 Feb 09
  

  Sean O'Steen

  magnolia

• 21 Oct 08
  

  marco campana

  Any community—online or off—must start slowly, and be nurtured. You cannot “just add community.” It simply must happen gradually. It must be cared for, and hosted; it takes time and people with great communication skills to set the tone and tend the conve

  community conversations web2.0 howto

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  Settlement AtWork

  Any community—online or off—must start slowly, and be nurtured. You cannot “just add community.” It simply must happen gradually. It must be cared for, and hosted; it takes time and people with great communication skills to set the tone and tend the conve

  community conversations web2.0 howto

• 18 Oct 08
  

  Julie Simek

  Article about how founder of Flickr created look & feel of the site and created a sense of community.

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• 04 Jun 08
  

  Nancy White

  online_community community community_indicators FAOTKN

• 31 May 08
  

  Caitlin Bentley

  A practical approach to community building

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• 22 May 08
  

  Glen Butler

  Use for NET24 assignment

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• 20 May 08
  

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  Building a community online (Flickr example)

• 12 May 08
  

  Youenn Leborgne

  Exclamations like Yay! Woo! Bonk! Rock! Yee har! make people feel like they’re progressing and doing things well.
  The look of the place must never overwhelm the photos themselves.

  web design

• 09 May 08
  

  Mike Howe
• 07 May 08
  

  Timo Nevalainen

  social_web swoppi web_design community collaboration

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  Sam Bachert

  online community tips

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  Cristian Cabezas

  moderacion

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  Ryan Baker-Smith

  Programming.Web.General Web.Design.General Web.Community

• 06 May 08
  

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  Thomas R. Stegelmann

  community flickr web2.0 social

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  Christy Tucker

  One of the founders of Flickr writes about building online community. One of his big points is that if you create too many hard and fast rules, people are less creative and open to conversation. It's better to build community by providing spaces for people to negotiate the guidelines for themselves as much as possible.

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  • The sculpture demonstrated a fascinating idea: given fewer rules, people actually behaved in more creative, co-operative, and collaborative (or competitive, as the case may be) ways.
  • Any time you construct specific rules of engagement, they are instantly open to interpretation and circumvention, and we want our members to negotiate their place with each other, not with The Authority.
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  • • Any community—online or off—must start slowly, and be nurtured. You cannot “just add community.” It simply must happen gradually. It must be cared for, and hosted; it takes time and people with great communication skills to set the tone and tend the conversation.
    • We also tried to create an egalitarian playing field. At a glance, visitors can’t differentiate a professional photographer with an enormous lens from an enthusiast just getting started in photography. There is no indication of “quality” apart from the content itself.
    • Participate in the community you’re trying to build. Add content, make contact, show yourself as a person and have fun.
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  R Fahey

  flick community growth

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  Michael Giles
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