{"id":874,"date":"2008-08-19T11:24:22","date_gmt":"2008-08-19T16:24:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dougmcclure.net\/blog\/?p=874"},"modified":"2008-08-19T11:24:22","modified_gmt":"2008-08-19T16:24:22","slug":"when-the-sales-and-marketing-stops-does-the-community-start","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dougmcclure.net\/blog\/2008\/08\/when-the-sales-and-marketing-stops-does-the-community-start\/","title":{"rendered":"When the Sales and Marketing Stops, Does the Community Start?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just thinking out loud here&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>What&#8217;s it really take for a community to start and evolve?<\/li>\n<li>Who must participate?<\/li>\n<li>Who shouldn&#8217;t participate?<\/li>\n<li>Who should facilitate?<\/li>\n<li>How does the &#8220;What&#8217;s in it for me&#8221; get addressed?<\/li>\n<li>Is this really what a community serves? Free support, free tools, utilities, open access to information?<\/li>\n<li>If this is true, can &#8220;real&#8221; relationships ever be realized?<\/li>\n<li>How transparent should the community be?<\/li>\n<li>Does transparency\/openness help\/hinder participation?<\/li>\n<li>Should everyone be able to see who&#8217;s participating, where they work, their background and motives?<\/li>\n<li>Should companies incent\/encourage\/mandate participation by their SMEs and practitioners?<\/li>\n<li>How should they?<\/li>\n<li>Who has the best community and what makes it so good?<\/li>\n<li>What&#8217;s an example of a bad community?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Thoughts?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just thinking out loud here&#8230; What&#8217;s it really take for a community to start and evolve? Who must participate? Who shouldn&#8217;t participate? Who should facilitate? How does the &#8220;What&#8217;s in it for me&#8221; get addressed? Is this really what a community serves? Free support, free tools, utilities, open access to information? If this is true, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,366,507,25,416,62,92],"tags":[380,1010,1023,615,613,558,384,972,171,614],"class_list":{"0":"post-874","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-business","7":"category-collaboration","8":"category-community","9":"category-general","10":"category-user-experience","11":"category-user-group","12":"category-value","13":"tag-business-management","14":"tag-collaboration","15":"tag-community","16":"tag-it-management","17":"tag-jams","18":"tag-relationships","19":"tag-user-groups","20":"tag-value","21":"tag-web20","22":"tag-wiifm"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dougmcclure.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dougmcclure.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dougmcclure.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dougmcclure.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dougmcclure.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=874"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/dougmcclure.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/874\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":878,"href":"https:\/\/dougmcclure.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/874\/revisions\/878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dougmcclure.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dougmcclure.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dougmcclure.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}