Online Communities

I have had a hard time setting up online communities or even discussion groups that can sustain themselves. I am, in fact, an enthusiastic early adopter of any new collaborative technology. I like to build libraries of documents, I like posting questions and answers, but I loose intrest after about three months. I have never been able to sustain my enthusiasm for a community or online team for more than three months.

I am very impressed, therefore, when an organization or the media says that they have figured it out. In a recent article in OJR, News Sites Still Figuring Out What to Do With Online Communities, the author gives examples of several sites that are doing it right. I would add the Harvard Business Review too, since they have good forums at Working Knowledge.