Seeding, Developing and Growing an online Community

An online community can be a powerful asset to any business or site, but getting it started requires more than just installing some forum software and waiting for it all to happen. While many communities are the result of organic growth around a product, site or shared passion, it is also possible to induce and engineer a community.

  • Difficulty: General
  • Prerequisites: None.
  • Session Track: CSS

Session Detail

In this session we'll discuss what impact seeding, social engineering, community culture, moderation and censorship, evangelism and traffic can have in growing a community.

Speakers

Collis Ta'eed (Sydney, Australia)

Collis is co-founder of successful startup Envato where he is in charge of marketing, strategy and community. With a background in web design he has been working online in one capacity or another since Yahoo was nothing more than a yell! More...