Notes:

--Anyone used sandbox, interactive space, other than Second Life

yes, good response to" here’s how you can navigate to it, direct link", high follow rates from

--also do by using wiki, self-editing, also doing something
useful/accomplishing things

--“just make the search better”, people don’t have time, needs to be findable/easy to use

--usually looking for very specific answer in IT communities

--what motivates people? Driven by recognition that they get

--example base takes time

--good moderators often unrecognized part of communities

--culture of mutual respect “bozo filter”, create allies w/
those who create good examples, foster relationships that you want to nurture
them

--from perspective of mobile, have to do a lot more
filtering, hooked up to something that relatively safe/secure

--incentive: well-paid, recognition, resume-builder, other
assumptions?

--platform formats very different—blogroll, blog comments
(synergistic—comments as, wikis, etc., largely self-maintained)

--How to keep together multi-facets of community (blogs/forums/etc.):
RSS, tagging, or porting everything into central database (mash at dbase
level or as specialized search another way people are handling it, complicated
data integration to do)