Perfcast Episode 16 – Managing More Than Forums With Patrick O’ Keefe

Patrick O’ Keefe, author of Managing Online Forums was our special one hour guest. In this episode we discussed a wide variety of topics related to managing forums such as:

• A short checklist of things to consider before even thinking about starting a forum.
• Describing the difference between managing a forum and managing a blog
• How can one extend the skills they learn from managing forums to entire online communities
• What do you think of gated communities like Hive or my own Branding David Members area
• You are selling one of your blogs, what do you think of people selling “communities”
• Should every major blog or site have a forum for community interaction
• What is your best advice for someone who has set up a forum, but it hasn’t become a community

Those topics are just the tip of the iceberg! We also had quite a chatty bunch with us in the live chat room which was awesome to see. They provided us with a couple of great questions that Patrick had no problem answering. Although we simply couldn’t discuss everything we wanted to within a 60 minute time period, Patrick will definitely be on the show in 2009 to provide even more insight into the realm of forums and online communities.

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LENGTH OF EPISODE – 1 Hour 16 Minutes

NEXT EPISODE – December 18th, 2008 at 7 P.M. EST

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