Don't kill a community online AND collaboration tools

Instead of "do's and don't's", the people at socialmediatoday thought of How to Kill A Community in 10 Easy Steps - by reading this, you'll realize some principles about the online communities - how to keep your community alive and thriving OR the top 10 ways to (inadvertently) to kill an online community.

How to Kill A Community in 10 Easy Steps

• 1) Launch your community without a beta group.
• 2) Throw feature-spaghetti at the wall and hope something sticks
• 3) Don't "feed" your community once it is open.
• 4) Don't use off-line outreach and engagement techniques.
• 5) Assume size is THE critical differentiator.
• 6) Try to monetize the community at every opportunity.
• 7) Hire any staff who are on-the-bench to moderate the community.
• 8) Don't have a newsletter or steady, predictable communication to members.
• 9) Don't evolve the community based on member feedback and suggestions.
• 10) Measure meaningless metrics that make you look good.
  

Maybe these principles sound cryptical.... - to find out more - to actually find out what the author meant by it - visit the How to Kill A Community in 10 Easy Steps article online.

On the other hand, there are many collaboration tools online, so here are some highlights - some great free tools for connecting and sharing with others(via missiontolearn).

15 Free Online Collaboration Tools and Apps

• Keep and Share
• Wridea
• Writeboard
• Twiddla
• Spicebird
• Stixy
• ReviewBasics
• EditGrid
• ooVoo
• Palbee
• GroupTweet
• Edmodo
• SimplyBox
• Mikogo
• Vyew
  

All these online tools are introduced in this nice article about 15 Free Online Collaboration Tools and Apps - read it online.