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Posted by: Marathon
What do you thing are the top factors in making an effective private group community? I only really have experience with running small closed groups, because I don't like large groups, but here's what I've kinda put together after many failed trials.
- A devoted administrator that doesn't place obligations on the other members to the group. People don't like being told what to do, especially from the start of something new. If you provide the discussions and the means for other members to connect, they will stay and contribute on their own.
- Members that are like-minded enough to not be prone to conflict with one another, but different enough to keep things from being stale. Having a group that focuses around a specific objective is helpful for this, where as standard off topic groups are a little bit more tricky to manage.
- Time. You can't create a tightly knit community over night. It takes a lot of time and effort on many people's parts, especially the administrator's, for people to connect and to get the group to be self sustaining.
If you can get those three things, you're golden.