Community Spark
I recently discovered a site well worth checking out. Community Spark: Building Online Communities is a helpful, no nonsense resource for those wanting to design, build and maintain online learning communities. The resources on this site can be used for a variety of domains. The articles aren’t geared for a particular niche – like small business mangers, educators, or lovers of literature – but are generic enough to cut across these areas of inquiry.
The blog author, Martin Reed, has written scores of useful articles on a variety of topics: building a new community, developing blogs, developing and maintaining forums, and general issues related to online communities.
I found several useful articles on the general issues link. For example, in “Successful Online Learning Communities don't Develop Overnight,” the author shares tips on how to develop online communities faster, but reminds readers that they take time. In another article, “Get More Members of your Online Community Active,” Reed discusses the importance of keeping members active and gives readers some tips from his own experience.
If you are thinking of starting an online community with other educators or looking for ways to enhance the potential of an already meeting group, then this site likely has a useful resource for you.
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