Library clips :: Crowdsource as a way to create a community :: March :: 2009
Rather than use a prescribed approach of creating some topic forums upfront, we instead had just one forum. Our other option was having some topic forums and a miscellaneous forum, but we found one forum was easy. And you want this to be as easy as possible at the start, the less choices the better. All this is related to a past post on broad buckets as a fertile ground.Technorati Tags: iRobt, openIDeas, syndicNation, reSearchSources, bottomUpContent,
Next, is to group these posts into various forums so we have spaces to keep talking about various topics. I like this way of creating forums, ie. the bottom-up content is driving the forums to be created, rather than the prescriptive approach…this is great as now we will have forums on topics people will want to talk about…who knows these may one day become their own community.
This process of categorising these forums would have been easier if our forum had a tagging feature (similar to Clearspace). Further to this, tag clouds are great for a glance at what topics are most prevalent on people’s minds, and comparing them to topics of a lesser magnification.
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