I'm back

It's been a godawful long time since I blogged in this venue. I may not be cut out for blogging. My excuse is that I've been working 7 day weeks and 14 hour days at a new company, and not on community stuff.
I've just managed to get all that work tidied away to the point where I'm no longer scrambling, so now I'm on to devising a community plan.

General guidelines for devising a community plan:

• Don't overthink - instead, keep production costs low and avoid the time-suck of market research
  
• Plan to be wrong the first time you build anything (i.e. build flexibility into your code and your plan
• Ignore most best practices, since your community will be comprised of different people than Yahoo's
• For Godsakes, try not to use the term community in outward facing text.

I may or may not be speaking on these topics elsewhere. I'll post about the seminar if I get invited.

Oh, in the shameless self-promotion area of this site, I'm featured as a "Face of eContent" this month. Astute readers may recognize the picture they're using.