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Matt Mullenweg’s – 6 Steps to Kill Your Community

There is a lot of instruction on the web on how to grow your community, add followers and readership online. But is it all about the numbers? Instead the focus should be about engagement and conversation. The value you’re providing your readers in terms of fresh content that is helpful or actionable. Creating not just a resource – but a forum for debate and communication. Matt Mullenweg, the founder of WordPress recently created a post on his site highlighting what not to do in being successful in building your online community and web presence.

I thought I’d write a guide for how to increase the number of comments you get by 400-1,000% and ruin whatever shred of community you had on your site.

In short his list is:

  1. Abandon Search Engines.
  2. Be Famous!
  3. Put the Comment Form at Top.
  4. No Subscriptions.
  5. Make People Click Click Click.
  6. Treat Everyone the Same.
  7. Don’t Ask Anything of Your Audience.

Read Matt’s full essay here at ma.tt

What would you add to take this list to 10?

Set Up A Facebook Group in Less Than 3 Minutes

Sure you may already have a Facebook page/profile – but have you ever wondered how to set up a Facebook Group?

Facebook Groups are a great way to organize a community around a cause. From the group page you can then add events, meetups, post links, have discussions and more. Once you set it up you’re the administrator, but you can always add other administrators who will also have access to help you administrate your new group.

Here is part 1 of the series of How to Start and Customize a Facebook Group. (Customization will be in the next video.)

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