Forum Administration

With slight inclination towards running an online community, all tools are available in the web today to start the website. But does availability of web tools make your website successful? When I say ’successful website’, I mean a successful Online community website. Chances are that you may struggle a lot maintaining and building a community than you did in buying a domain, hosting and a forum script.

A new community Administrator believes that once they buy forum script or master it’s installation the website would roll. With phpBB/SMF/MyBB e.t.c. the forum scripts have become priceless. Even IPB/VBulletin are not costly enough for a new owner to buy and setup. Many community administrators spent sizeable amount of time customizing their board. Even that job has been taken care of by third party plugins and skins. You visit those sites, and at a premium or sometimes free those skins and plugins are available for your site.

Those who want to make their site different either hire a skinner to do a custom skin. Once your site is ready with all uniqueness, the community administrator job starts. It is here where everybody stumbles.

Your design, layout and modifications of forum are of little importance than that of running a community website. The challenge starts here!

The struggles begins when you visit your site daily and find that there are no contents, no members and no activity. Many community administrator take help of Paid Forum Posting, False registration of members and stuff like that. But unless the paid posting is not converted into real members, real posts in course of time, it will reduce your chances of success of your forum. Let me enumerate those challenges.

There are challenges at different levels:

1. Starting a Community
2. Before Community Hatching
3. During Community Hatching
4. Community Hatch
5. Community Laying eggs

My blog would have categories narrated above. I will write articles on each categories and hope to help a community administrator to build a strong and fruitful community which I call ‘Laying Eggs’.

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