Sunday, May 11th, 2008...6:03 pm - Rachael Hainsworth
building online communities: lessons from Flickr
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Natalie Spence flicked over some Flickr in-the-know this morning. It’s an article from Flickr’s George Oates on their experience building and cultivating their online community. A thread includes minimising the ‘rules’ and allowing users to tangle, mangle and get creative with the given infrastrucure.
“People don’t like being told what to do. We like to explore, change things around, and make a place our own. Hefty design challenges await the makers of websites where people feel free to engage; both with the system itself and with each other. Embrace the idea that people will warp and stretch your site in ways you can’t predict—they’ll surprise you with their creativity and make something wonderful with what you provide.”
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