I’ve been wondering recently whether there’s an “ideal” method of creating an online community of trainers?
Take a look at some recent models of successful communities:
1) Yahoo Groups - rose in popularity in 2000-01 - useful for posting questions, moderating discussions around a particular topic, organizing your service club or scout troop. Forwards e-mails to the whole group.
2) Tribe and other online communities rose in popularity in 2003. The ability to create a home page about yourself and link up with friends is pretty flexible. Several competitors challenge the model with slightly different features.
3) Linked-in gains popularity as a business site in 2005. Is this community?
4) Message boards - still functioning to created threaded, searchable content
5) ASTD-PS puts up a File Sharing site in June, 2006. Register, begin sharing files and commenting on others’ documents, connecting.
What else?
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