Best practices anyone?
Hey all, just thought I'd throw my hat in the ring so Laura doesn't feel too lonely up there on the front page.. ;)
What I would love to see come out of this group is some "best practices" documents for people building community sites. Especially sites geared towards online communities where the end user has special needs.
By special needs, I am not only referring to accessability issues, (although that is certainly one concern) I also mean things like ;
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How do you build sites for youth that give them adequate privacy, security and priveleges(spelling?) so they can feel like they own the space, while keeping parents satisfied that their children are safe from online harrassment and stalking?
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How do you provide a granulated set of user roles for a semi-closed group of low-level technophobes without overcomplicating the means to contribute to the site? [not like I've ever had to deal with that or anything ;)]
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How do you explain copyright and copyleft to inexperienced webpublishers and transmit the importance of the issue adequately? Is it even necesary? What are we leaving out if we don't talk about copyright before giving a community a site they can publish to?
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How does a web developer/social marketer do knowledge transmission for community-building online to end-users/ site editors who mostly use analogue technologies to communicate with their constituents.
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When is a community website the solution and when is it overkill? How do you help your client develop a project/product that really fits their needs.
