February 6, 2012

Community Development

Learn how to develop online communities to accelerate your online marketing strategy.

The following are the best resources on the Web about Online Community Development.


As part of a presentation on creating customer commitment in a market, the following challenges to creating an online community are highlighted:

Challenges to Creating Community
- Gaining attention and building traffic
- Losing member focus as community grows or changes
- If members disengage, content creation lags and retention drops
- Firms accustomed to controlling the message reluctant to let go

Internet Marketing & e-Commerce
Ward Hanson, Kirthi Kalyanam