Fwd - Revisiting the Wheel: Insights from Online Community Managers March 17, 2011

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Revisiting the Wheel: Insights from Online Community Managers

The task was simple; Don’t reinvent the wheel.

It’s easier said than done, but this is what I attempted to do when I began working with the Community Development Resource Association (CDRA) in Cape Town to help conceptualize an online community.

At the end of last year, The Barefoot Guide that CDRA helped to produce had been downloaded over 50,000 times and has been widely lauded by people and organizations engaged in social change work. With an average of almost 100 people actively engaging with the website on a daily basis and a second guide on learning under development, it was increasingly apparent that an online community was needed to help further support development practitioners’ skills building activities.

More at http://www.how-matters.org/2011/02/03/revisiting-the-wheel/