The Community Management Wiki is an attempt to document and synthesize what we know about community management.
What is community management?[]
Community management is the theory and practice of creating, building, maintaining, and guiding all kinds of communities, whether online or offline, large or small. Communities have a wide variety of purposes, Structures, and Values, and each one has different needs. A community manager helps a community be the best it can be at whatever it is that it does.
See Community management for more information.
What is this wiki for?[]
- Explaining terms and concepts relevant to community management
- Describing best practices
- Reviewing and recommending tools
- Offering case studies of well-known or interesting communities
- Offering further reading and other resources for community managers
Can I help out?[]
Of course! This wiki is editable by anyone. Please join us in building a great information resource.
Some good places to start include:
- Community Portal -- general information about how to get involved
- Brainstorming the scope of the wiki and what to cover -- currently happening at Article brainstorming
- Wanted pages -- articles we want to have on the wiki
- Subscribe to RecentChanges in your RSS reader or by email