Our first attempt at writing a book as a community, launched last fall, was fascinating and frustrating.  While many many people immediately recognized the ground breaking potential and the "coolness" of the idea, a large number found it difficult to find meaningful ways to contribute.   We did end up with quite a lot of material for the first book through both the wiki and the forums.  And the book itself is a great read with solid co ...     Read entire post

I received an interesting request from a member of one of the communities I manage.  They wanted to know how to use their community to run a meeting.  They had tried to do it on their own and run into some problems which all stemmed from the fact that attendees who logged in at the start of the meeting and remained for over a half hour found that they had timed out when the meeting organizer asked them to download this or that document from the library.   I replied with (not inc ...     Read entire post