Build a unique Community

In life, in the Internet world, the community is the most complex of a portal, to build a site is very simple, the Internet in addition to information content-oriented sites, the most should be done community sites. But the barriers to the community are high, and designing and running a community is a difficult project.

For a product designer:

To understand the community, the perception of good at least 5 years, but the value of output is unknown.

Compared with the field of E-commerce, a person familiar with the Internet, in a certain level is relatively easy to start. And, can quickly and effectively bring value to the company and the enterprise. But with the existing product design process, methods, it is difficult to directly guide you.

Do the community, no crash, only slow work out malt.

Community, in the Internet world, the community can not be replicated. Even though it looks like a bunch of products and websites to draw on.

Some people will cite the counter example, Wang copy so many foreign SNS, from the school to the home to the rice, it seems that these models copy to the domestic is good. In my eyes, he is a Chinese internet practitioner, the few people who understand the community. And for the interface and function of the intact plagiarism, this thing I look more and more light, Wang is an internet entrepreneur, businessman, he just don't love design (narrow sense) just.

To do a good job in a community requires a lot of knowledge background: sociology, psychology, communication, information science.

For half a day, it may be necessary to clarify the concept of the community.

There are two kinds of internet community, one is the community of the vertical group, the other is the pan-community.

For vertical groups, because a single attribute gathers people together, this attribute may be geographic, potentially interesting, and possibly information.

For the pan-community, a new architecture is needed.

Often see some do vertical websites, or the Internet large companies, is always "into SNS", few winners.

From the product point of view, in addition to the BBS forum structure, can be reused to the n many areas outside; The Facebook and Twitter models are in fact not reusable, because they are centralized.

In fact, BBS forum in my eyes is not a real community form, 80% of the BBS form is actually to solve information problems, rather than network social. is a kind of disguised information carrier. Sing's discuz can be successful, but the Facebook and Twitter models are clearly not.

I actually want to say, for vertical website, the real reference is really not copy a Facebook or Twitter is good, timeline really unimportant. Did not think clearly before, BBS is actually economical and affordable.

Well, also do not know what the nonsense, just feel too long did not write blog thinking, have the opportunity to write text, found that feeling good. Just found that the organization text is poor, want to express too much, or do not think clearly.