The Art of Community: Building the New Age of Participation
by Jono Bacon
Publisher: O'Reilly Media 2009
ISBN/ASIN: 0596156715
ISBN-13: 9780596156718
Number of pages: 394
Description:
Online communities offer a wide range of opportunities today, whether you're supporting a cause, marketing a product or service, or developing open source software. The Art of Community will help you develop the broad range of talents you need to recruit members to your community, motivate and manage them, and help them become active participants.
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