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		<title>There is Not Enough Time in the Day for Me to Tell You That Forums Are Not Dead</title>
		<link>http://www.managingcommunities.com/2012/01/02/are-forums-dead/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jan 2012 18:03:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patrick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[photo credit: ra_hurd I like Quora. I really do. But, why is it that I can&#8217;t go more than a few days without seeing someone asking, on what is essentially a forum, why forums are dead, how forums can be saved, why people don&#8217;t use forums or something similar? I can only answer this question [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Keep Calm and Manage Your Community</title>
		<link>http://www.managingcommunities.com/2011/12/12/keep-calm-and-manage-your-community/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2011 19:15:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patrick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[photo credit: M.M.Meeks Like any management role, when you manage an online community, you&#8217;ll be faced with challenges on a regular basis. You&#8217;ll have to put out a lot of fires. Some will be like blowing out a candle, but in other cases, a part of your house may be on fire. You then can [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Funny Things (Banned?) Members Have Told You (Submissions Wanted!)</title>
		<link>http://www.managingcommunities.com/2011/04/15/funny-things-banned-members-have-told-you-submissions-wanted/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Apr 2011 12:30:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patrick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[photo credit: mboperator I have a fun idea. As you know if you&#8217;ve read ManagingCommunities.com for any measurable amount of time, I like to sometimes share the funny or absurd things that my members have told me. Whether that&#8217;s being called Hitler or people who are both wrong and rude, I share it in small [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Online Communities and Forums Can Be So Draconian! (or &#8220;The Meaning of Draconian&#8221;)</title>
		<link>http://www.managingcommunities.com/2010/12/09/online-communities-and-forums-can-be-so-draconian-or-the-meaning-of-draconian/</link>
		<comments>http://www.managingcommunities.com/2010/12/09/online-communities-and-forums-can-be-so-draconian-or-the-meaning-of-draconian/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Dec 2010 17:34:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patrick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[photo credit: julesjulesjules m Have you managed an online community for three or more years? Does it have 50,000 or more posts? Do you have guidelines of substance that you fairly and evenly apply to contributions? If the answer to all of those questions is yes, there is a fair chance that someone has lobbed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What Not to Do When I Ask You to Consider Advertising on Our Community</title>
		<link>http://www.managingcommunities.com/2010/09/06/what-not-to-do-when-i-ask-you-to-consider-advertising-on-our-community/</link>
		<comments>http://www.managingcommunities.com/2010/09/06/what-not-to-do-when-i-ask-you-to-consider-advertising-on-our-community/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Sep 2010 14:51:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patrick</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[How Should I Participate?]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[photo credit: Miala Role playing time! I manage a good sized community around a particular niche. I am looking for advertisers. So, I identify some online stores that sell products to the people who comprise my community&#8217;s audience. The online store that you work for is one of those I find and I contact you. [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
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		<title>Video: &#8220;Social Media: The Bad and the Ugly&#8221; Panel at BlogWorld Expo 2009 with Amber Naslund, Robert Scoble and Wayne Sutton</title>
		<link>http://www.managingcommunities.com/2010/09/01/video-social-media-the-bad-and-the-ugly-panel-at-blogworld-expo-2009-with-amber-naslund-robert-scoble-and-wayne-sutton/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Sep 2010 20:30:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patrick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[photo credit: BuzzShift Last year at BlogWorld &#38; New Media Expo (this year&#8217;s iteration is October 14-16 in Las Vegas and I&#8217;ll be there), I led a panel titled &#8220;Social Media: The Bad and the Ugly&#8221; with Amber Naslund, Robert Scoble and Wayne Sutton. On the panel, we talked about trends in social media that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Suggesting a Font Color Change is &#8220;Like Telling a Black Person to Stop Being Black&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.managingcommunities.com/2010/08/15/suggesting-a-font-color-change-is-like-telling-a-black-person-to-stop-being-black/</link>
		<comments>http://www.managingcommunities.com/2010/08/15/suggesting-a-font-color-change-is-like-telling-a-black-person-to-stop-being-black/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Aug 2010 20:40:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patrick</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Humor]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[photo credit: quinn.anya On one of the communities that I run that offers free technical support, we had a member join and post a question in need of some assistance. In the post, they included some short hand for a vulgarity, so I removed the post, as per our normal procedure. They also had a [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>We&#8217;re Off the &#8220;Honest Sites&#8221; List! Oh No!</title>
		<link>http://www.managingcommunities.com/2010/04/10/were-off-the-honest-sites-list-oh-no-2/</link>
		<comments>http://www.managingcommunities.com/2010/04/10/were-off-the-honest-sites-list-oh-no-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Apr 2010 19:41:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patrick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[photo credit: gaminrey We had a member the other day who posted a thread promoting his eBook. It was your run of the mill advertisement, removed by a member of my staff. The person who posted it responded to the staff member, telling them that they must not see the value in his eBook and [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>April Fools&#8217; Day 2010 on My Communities</title>
		<link>http://www.managingcommunities.com/2010/04/02/april-fools-day-2010-on-my-communities/</link>
		<comments>http://www.managingcommunities.com/2010/04/02/april-fools-day-2010-on-my-communities/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Apr 2010 23:14:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patrick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[April Fools&#8217; Day affords many community administrators with the opportunity to have a little fun with their members and I am not one to pass that up. So, just like last year, some of my site&#8217;s played host to a prank in honor of the day. As always, the staff was in on it. On [...]]]></description>
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		<title>10 (Super Fun!) Ways You Can Kill Your Online Community</title>
		<link>http://www.managingcommunities.com/2009/09/10/10-super-fun-ways-you-can-kill-your-online-community/</link>
		<comments>http://www.managingcommunities.com/2009/09/10/10-super-fun-ways-you-can-kill-your-online-community/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2009 15:29:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patrick</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Developing Your Community]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[photo credit: Caveman 92223 — On the Road Again! Recently, on the e-mint discussion list, a member was asking for some suggestions for a list of 10 ways to kill your online community, with some humor. Taking approximately 10-15 minutes, I came up with a quick, fun, spur of the moment list and I thought [...]]]></description>
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