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		<title>Does Conflict in Community helps in bringing traffic?</title>
		<link>http://www.kushal.name/finer-aspects/39-conflict-community-helps-bringing-traffic.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2009 15:22:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kushal</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Finer aspects]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[community building]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[community managers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[social networking]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[How to effectively use conflicts of community to draw more traffic to your forum]]></description>
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		<title>Forum Database backups</title>
		<link>http://www.kushal.name/starting-a-community/35-forum-database-backups.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Aug 2009 02:38:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kushal</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Community Laying eggs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[starting a community]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[database backup]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[forum administration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[securing forum]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Learn the importance of having forum database backups, and the different methods available for forum backups available for vbulleting, IPB, phpbb e.t.c Nothing is more important for the community than its consistency and continuity, I have highlighted all into my post.]]></description>
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		<title>How to effectively use Facebook to make your forum visible?</title>
		<link>http://www.kushal.name/finer-aspects/31-effectively-facebook-forum-visible.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Aug 2009 08:08:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kushal</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Finer aspects]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[community development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Facebook community]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Facebook Groups]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Facebook Pages]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[social networking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[success]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Use Facebook to effectively promote your forum]]></description>
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		<title>Successful Forum Community in five simple To-Do&#8217;s</title>
		<link>http://www.kushal.name/before-community-hatching/21-success-forum-community-simple-todos.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.kushal.name/before-community-hatching/21-success-forum-community-simple-todos.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2009 16:51:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kushal</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Before Community Hatching]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Finer aspects]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[community development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[success]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.kushal.name/?p=21</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[   1. Never let any post go un-answered.
   2. Always involve people in the introduction. Not just &#8216;welcome to website&#8217;, but trying to sincerely know your members. If the user has obscure name jps_30, then asking them their full name is a good idea. Also try to remember the user real [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Legal issues in running a community website</title>
		<link>http://www.kushal.name/finer-aspects/16-legal-issues-running-community-website.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.kushal.name/finer-aspects/16-legal-issues-running-community-website.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2009 15:05:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kushal</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Finer aspects]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[copyright]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[legal issues]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[UCC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[User generated content]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.kushal.name/?p=16</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Social Networking websites have the following features which makes them different from other websites.
User generated Content
Sharing of Personal Information by users
Unavoidable sharing of Copyrighted materials.
Diversified users from across the globe
To start with remember that &#8216;you are responsible for what you post and not what others post&#8217; even in your own website.
Here are the following things [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Does Profile Colouring Makes an impact on your community?</title>
		<link>http://www.kushal.name/during-community-hatching/9-profile-colouring-impact-community.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.kushal.name/during-community-hatching/9-profile-colouring-impact-community.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Sep 2008 17:28:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kushal</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[During Community Hatching]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[color]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[colour]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[regular members]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[When I say Profile it is the member name colouring I am talking about. Forum communities display members in many format like &#8216;Who&#8217;s Online&#8217;, &#8216;Number of New Registration&#8217; e.t.c. However I have found that differentiating the members based upon their participation level and giving them different colours make a lot of impact on the community [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How important are blogs in your Forum?</title>
		<link>http://www.kushal.name/finer-aspects/14-important-blogs-forum.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.kushal.name/finer-aspects/14-important-blogs-forum.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jul 2008 18:19:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kushal</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Finer aspects]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[blog]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[social networking]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[vBulletin and Invision Power Board bout provide integrated blogging for your forum users. Providing blog has become a matter of debate and many forum owners never had success with blogging on their community sites. Does that mean blogging should not be a part of Forum Social Network? If you ask me I would say without [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Forum Friends &#8211; Are they for real?</title>
		<link>http://www.kushal.name/finer-aspects/13-forum-friends-real.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.kushal.name/finer-aspects/13-forum-friends-real.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Jul 2008 07:27:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kushal</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Finer aspects]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[forum friends]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[friendships]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[online communities]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[online relationship]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.kushal.name/?p=13</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Gone are the days when people remained anonymous and chatted to glory only to fool or end up getting cheated. Here are forum communities which are making profound effect over friendship paradigm. I happen to analyze factors and reason for their success and how strong is the bonding make online.

What promotes friendship over Forums?
As there [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What is your size of Internal Discussions?</title>
		<link>http://www.kushal.name/before-community-hatching/12-size-internal-discussions.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.kushal.name/before-community-hatching/12-size-internal-discussions.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Jul 2008 03:50:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kushal</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Before Community Hatching]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[internal area]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[moderators]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.kushal.name/?p=12</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[When I create a new community, the first advice I give to forum admins is to create internal area of discussions for users before they actually create public area. 
The internal area should define your vision, roles of moderators, conflict resolutions escalation matrix, contact details, Moderated Post discussions, and General discussions.

The New forum board should [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Does Forum Statistics drive new members?</title>
		<link>http://www.kushal.name/before-stating-a-community/11-forum-statistics-drive-members.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.kushal.name/before-stating-a-community/11-forum-statistics-drive-members.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Jun 2008 20:35:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kushal</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Before stating a Community]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[During Community Hatching]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New Registration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Statistics]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.kushal.name/?p=11</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A regular web watcher first looks down to see if the Forum has enough weight by way of number of Members, Number of Online users. Statistics drive new registration in a zippy, no doubt about it. We got to respect that and build our strategy around that. However, that is not always the case especially [...]]]></description>
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