Recently on LinkedIn I noticed a great discussion in the Social Media Today group. The discussion centered around the essential rules for a great community, online that is. Some of the rules went as follows:
- Use your real name
- Declare your real home base
- Properly categorize comments, posts, discussion threads
- Flag commercial communications, no disguised adverts
- No flaming and observe the “golden rule”
- Don’t sanitize dissent.
- No simplistic (or simpleton-like) communication, (e.g. “you suck.”)
- Have a community mission statement, goals are best reached when they’re identified first
- Have a mission statement, but also be ready to adapt when needs change
These 9 rules certainly aren’t exhaustive. I’d like to hear about any that you can add.
