UBB.Developers Forums General Discussion Chit Chat Doing some research

And I need your help.

Note to Staff: If this is an inappropriate place for this kind of request please move it - thanks.

This is my first post here though I have been lurking here for a while and doing some preliminary research. Sorry for the intrusion.

I am currently writing a long series of articles and possibly a book on Internet Communities. I hope to have the first article published next week with one published once a week over the next three months.

The articles will be on building, maintaining, promoting and making a profit on community driven sites. I see this article series as helping a lot of people including myself. However I want to present a solid base of ideas and concepts not just my own. This is where you come in.

I need your hints and tips. Marketing techniques and ideas on making money. Of course I won't ask you to expose closely guarded secrets but everyone has a few tips to share.

I would also like to experience a broad section of the different community sites from around the world.

In order to gather all this information I have created the Community Construction Zone. If everyone could contribute or at least list their community site there I will be deeply grateful.

As a bonus for listing your site, I offer everyone a full review based on my research and how you can improve your own community site. You do not need to be a member to post your site in the "Communities of the World" section.

This is not limited to any particular software and I would like to see sites of many different types.

If you are interested please feel free to drop by. Some sites will most likely be showcased in the articles and if I do write a book in that as well.

Feel free to visit the
Community Construction Zone .

[ June 12, 2001 04:33 PM: Message edited by: wluke ]

Hey Wayne, welcome

Your article sounds interesting, we are always interested in this as well. I'll post a link from here and give some feedback, but your link isn't working, you might wanna recheck your post.

You guys need to put together a team for the united devices distributed computing cancer research, a few of the forum support sites have teams already.

wluke, could you drop an email to nitesh@infopop.com ? He's one of Infopop's VPs, and would be very interested in talking with you about your results...

I'd also be interested in you contacting [email protected] and [email protected] with your results, ideas and i'll share some of my tips with you.

Hmm the link works for me now. Maybe you tried it while I was fixing the post. Here is a the direct link without the fancy formatting:
http://sitepointforums.com/forumdisplay.php?forumid=71

Thanks for the welcome guys. I will keep your email addresses handy and forward copies of my research to you.