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Building Intentional On-line Community
Experience From 117,000 Messages
Carol Anne Ogdin
Founder, Deep Woods Technology, Inc.
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Abstract: A commercial extra-net, with thousands
of computers connected via modem and Internet, supports multiple on-line discussions.
One of these is a particular standout, and the only one in which intentional plans
to build a community have been executed. This is the story of that Forum, and the
lessons we learned through the process. After false starts and mistakes, the discussion
database began to grow. In the past six years, over 4,100 people have participated,
and each month about 500 members of a constantly varying cast are responsible for creating
over 3,000 messages of hope, help and hilarity. |
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To navigate the
individual documents,
go here.
To get the whole
report in
one long document
(for printing), go here. |
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Community and How To Build It
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Here's the story,
a case study in
how it works
when it works well. |
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Here're the lessons
you can apply |
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Acknowledgements
Numerous contemporary participants in the Forum contributed
data, feedback and anecdotes for this monograph: Howard Almond, Robert Albritton,
Jens-B. Augustiny, David Bailey, Bob Balaban, Tim Brewington, Steve Caudill, Don Child,
Rick Dickinson, Bill Ernest, Erden Eruc, Bill Faulkner, Jon P. Goralewski, Andre Guirard,
Dorian Hausman, John D. Head, Pamela Herbert, Lubomir Hornak, Henry Kim, Rudi Knegt, Luke
Kolin, Ben Langhinrichs, Bob Monio, Rocky Oliver, David R. Russell, Richard Schwartz, and
Jean-Stephane Szijarto. Thank you all.
The subject must be near and dear, because they created a
thread about this work of 122 posts, and a depth of 13. Although the last six levels
were about Quake ][ and games, and probably shouldn't count...but such is the nature of
the Forum! |
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Thanks for the help,
"guys." |
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