Posts Tagged ‘ online communities ’

Creating Communities vs Enabling Communities? Which one works?

July 21, 2008
Creating Communities vs Enabling Communities? Which one works?

Ashish says that you “enable communities” and I think you “create” them. And since it’s a serious challenge to my understanding of social behavior, let me defend my position. By the very definition, a community is a group of individuals who are brought...
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Flickr’s mantra of building online communities

September 18, 2007

Flickr is one of the most successful web2.0 companies. More than the product (and it’s features), Flickr’s success can be largely credited to it’s loyal community base. Flickr could have been easily turned into a porn picture sharing site, or anything else – but the founders played a huge role in defining...
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