Tips on Building Online Community
Darius Monsef of COLOURlovers puts together a great set of lessons on the trials and tribulations of building an online community (with some offline lessons as well). His article is posted on the whimsically named siliconflorist.com. I learned a lot of this by trial and error. Good readin'.
Lesson: You must grow within your community, especially in the early days. Later, leaders will arise who can handle some of the day-to-day things and welcome new members. But in those first few days, weeks and months… you are the welcoming committee, janitor, house mom, judge, jury and banninator.
Great post. Konnects.com has a community feature that is easy to learn and monitor. As for building it only takes a matter of minutes. Many users and organizations built communities using our app and have found success in expanding and growing.