We work with organisations to develop and grow their online community. Sometimes this is done through their website and third party social networks. The next level of online community building is to develop your own social network site.
We're experienced in helping organisations to grow community life on niche social networks, through building sites, helping with the launch process and training staff to manage and participate in the online community.
Here are some blog posts about online communities.
The Art of Community – new O’Reilly book for free download
O’Reilly are more than just a book publisher and events organiser. For one, they’re among our main influences.
They’ve opted to release their new book The Art of Community, by Jono Bacon, in paper-based version, electronic book reader versions and a free PDF of the whole thing.
In the words of the author it’s intended to be a “solid guide to building, energizing and enabling pro-active, productive and enjoyable communities”, which is right up our street of course.
The contents are released under a Creative Commons licence (Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike in this case). It’ll be interesting to see how people adapt it and how that boosts attention for O’Reilly and the author.
(Thanks to @zambonini for the tip.)