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Community

Working online, you end-up trying to bridge communities across many different cultures, people and places. Sometimes more successfully than others. These are a list of articles about having to deal with communities and growing pains.

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Poisonous People

As your community expands, you’ll certainly have to deal with the associated growing pains. One issue that can be detrimental to the health of your community are poisonous people. Whether they know it or not, they can bring a healthy community to a standstill. Learn how to spot and deal with these types of folks before it’s too late.

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TweetCC a Creative Commons Journey

The microblogging platform Twitter has become a phenomenon and along with success comes the interest of re-purposing content. Twitter itself does not have a mechanism to license your tweets nor does it claim one. So tweetCC was created to fill that niche.

TweetCC is a simple way for you to declare how you want your tweets to be used and allow the world to easily look-up and respect your decisions. The project is one year old now and this is a quick look back at the reasons behind its creation and some current stats and developments.

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7 Stages of a Mythic Adventure

As we build more and more products revolving around a community and a base of loyal customers, how do you turn first-time users into experts without losing them along the way?

One way to create an engaging experience is to formulate the ideas as a journey where the customer explores and slowly becomes an expert. This is just one model of a possible journey broken down into 7 mythic stages.

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