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Our most recent set of distilled principles:

<b>1.	Starting communities:</b>
* 1.1.	Carve a niche of interest, define scope in terms of topics, members, activities, and purpose
* 1.2.	 Relate to competing sites, integrate content
* 1.3.	Organize content, people, and activities into subspaces, create new ones once there is enough activity
* 1.4.	 Highlight more active tasks
* 1.5.	 Inactive tasks should have “expected active times”
* 1.6.	 Create mechanisms to match people to activities 

<b>2.	 Encouraging contributions through motivation</b>
* 2.1.	 Make it easy to see and track needed contributions
* 2.2.	 Ask specific people on tasks of interest to them
* 2.3.	 Simple tasks with challenging goals are easier to comply with
* 2.4.	 Specify deadlines for tasks, while leaving people in control
* 2.5.	 Give frequent feedback specific to the goals (“immersive”)
* 2.6.	 Requests coming from leaders lead to more contributions
* 2.7.	 Stress benefits of contribution
* 2.8.	 Give (small, intangible) rewards tied to performance (not just signing up)
* 2.9.	 Publicize that others have complied with requests
* 2.10.	People are more willing to contribute: 1) when group is small, 2) when committed to the group, 3) when their contributions are unique

<b>3.	 Encouraging commitment</b>
* 3.1.	 Cluster members to help them identify with the community
* 3.2.	 Give subgroups a name and a tagline
* 3.3.	 Put subgroups in the context of a larger group
* 3.4.	 Make community goals and purpose explicit
* 3.5.	 Interdependent tasks increase commitment and reduce conflict
* 3.6.	 Allow “conditional participation” commitments

<b>4.	Dealing with newcomers</b>
* 4.1.	 Members recruiting colleagues is most effective
* 4.2.	 Appoint people responsible for immediate friendly interactions
* 4.3.	 Introducing newcomers to members increases interactions
* 4.4.	 Entry barriers for newcomers help screen for commitment
* 4.5.	 When small, acknowledge each new member
* 4.6.	 Advertise members particularly community leaders, include pictures
* 4.7.	 Provide concrete incentives to early members
* 4.8.	 Design common learning experiences for newcomers
* 4.9.	 Design clear sequence of stages to newcomers
* 4.10.	 Newcomers go through experiences to learn community rules
* 4.11.	 Provide sandboxes for newcomers while they are learning
* 4.12.	 Progressive access controls reduce harm while learning


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	Owner=Yolanda_Gil|
	Participants=Matheus_Hauder|
	Participants=Felix_Michel|
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	StartDate=2014-05-01|
	TargetDate=2015-07-31|
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