A Guest Post by David Cleland from TotalApps. In 2006 I proudly started my first blog, DigMo! It was technology, it was creativity, it was music and it was education. Despite it being a bit of blog soup I was pleased at how quick the site grew but within a few years it reached a [...]Post from: Blog Tips at ProBlogger. How To Run Subscriber-Only Competitions […]

A Guest Post by David Risley Except yours, of course. ;) However, there are a lot of bloggers who feel this way. You write. You write some more. You don’t feel as if you’re getting the traction that you want. What’s going on? There is plenty to be said about issues like proper market selection, search engine optimization [...]Post from: Blo […]

Speech recognition technology has come a long way in the last few years – in this in depth, informative and inspiring video which Jon Morrow (Associate Editor of Copyblogger and Co-founder of Partnering Profits) shares his first hand insights into speech recognition for bloggers. Jon does all of his blogging via speech recognition so he [...]Post from: […]

Many online communities falter for the same reasons. Fortunately, if you recognise and identify common mistakes, they are relatively easy to rectify. Follow these five steps to immediately improve your online community.

An online community manager means different things to different people and different organisations. In this article, I outline what an online community manager should be doing, and what kind of personality they should have.

At some stage, you will need to warn or ban members of your online community. Sometimes this can be hard to do - especially if you are banning popular or highly active members. Stay strong and be sensible, and your community will survive.