Boris Mann's Link Blog
So if you’re checking off all the ingredients you need to build your own startup ecosystem, just count how many people you have whose fulltime profession it is to support the ecosystem through their normal course of business—not just a side gig or an economic project. Get enough of those and you’ll have your community.
That’s the last paragraph of this post. Unfortunately, we have very few (down to zero?) people in Vancouver whose fulltime job it is to support the community. Everything else rings very true as well, such as “[Government] grants are nice, but they don’t come with the expertise of investors who have worked with tons of startups before”.
I’ve come across this before. I call it the “lots of empty categories” issue — you create a bunch of categories without knowing which will be active.
Good tips for any event, although some are specific to hackathons.
File under online community management tips.
Divide And Separate - The Online Community Guide
Roland is sharing a lot of Feverbee. And it’s very good, so I’m re-sharing a lot of it.
A dedicated community builder using a community-based platform (Drupal, Joomla, VBulletin, PHPBB, Pluck, Ning, BuddyPress, Teligent, Lithium, Jive etc…) will easily top that figure. Better yet, they will do it on a platform developed specifically for communities, which they control and where they can contact all members.
Facebook isn’t the best community platform, it’s quite possibly the worst.
Also, if you build community on a domain you control, you build traffic and SEO over time. Sending people to Facebook benefits Facebook more than it does you.
