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		<title>Community and Forum Guidelines Aren&#8217;t a Choice, the Choice is Whether You Tell Your Members</title>
		<link>http://www.managingcommunities.com/2010/06/03/community-and-forum-guidelines-arent-a-choice-the-choice-is-whether-you-tell-your-members/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jun 2010 16:29:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patrick</dc:creator>
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Recently, fastcars started a thread on CommunityAdmins.com asking why you should have rules (I call them guidelines) on your community at all, as fastcars feels that they are &#8220;meant to be broken.&#8221; fastcars felt that it wasn&#8217;t worth the time to have them and that guidelines intimidate members, making them feel scrutinized [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An Example of Public Appreciation for a Long Time Community Staff Member</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 May 2010 14:09:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patrick</dc:creator>
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I talk a lot about appreciation. I believe in appreciation and the power of it and how important it can be to the growth and quality of a community.
There are different ways that I express appreciation for people within my communities, both public and private. But, I make appreciation part of [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>8</slash:comments>
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		<title>Fair Use for Forums (and How to Explain to Your Members That They Can&#8217;t Quote Entire Articles)</title>
		<link>http://www.managingcommunities.com/2010/02/07/fair-use-for-forums-and-how-to-explain-to-your-members-that-they-cant-quote-entire-articles/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Feb 2010 16:34:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patrick</dc:creator>
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It&#8217;s important to be proactive on matters of content theft and copyright infringement. A large part of this is text quoted from other sources. With some exceptions (public domain works, works by the Federal Government, works released under alternative licenses to copyright, and more), you can&#8217;t allow your members to post [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>24</slash:comments>
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		<title>What Derek Jeter Wants in a Community/Forums Moderator</title>
		<link>http://www.managingcommunities.com/2009/12/05/what-derek-jeter-wants-in-a-communityforums-moderator/</link>
		<comments>http://www.managingcommunities.com/2009/12/05/what-derek-jeter-wants-in-a-communityforums-moderator/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Dec 2009 20:20:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patrick</dc:creator>
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Derek Jeter, the shortstop of the New York Yankees, recently capped off an incredibly successful year when he was named as the 2009 Sports Illustrated Sportsman of the Year. Tom Verducci, a writer for the magazine, wrote an impressive profile of Jeter and there was one portion that jumped out at me [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>11</slash:comments>
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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>
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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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		<slash:comments>27</slash:comments>
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		<title>You Need a Vacation &#8211; Your Community Will Be There When You Get Back</title>
		<link>http://www.managingcommunities.com/2009/08/20/you-need-a-vacation-your-community-will-be-there-when-you-get-back/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2009 20:31:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patrick</dc:creator>
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I recently took some time away. Literally three weeks without logging into my forums. And guess what? They were still there when I got back!
Regardless of what you do, what your profession is, what your hobbies are; sometimes, we can get wrapped up a little too much where we think something needs [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>8</slash:comments>
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		<title>Dealing with Suicide On Your Online Community or Forums: How You Can Help and Protect Everyone</title>
		<link>http://www.managingcommunities.com/2009/06/22/dealing-with-suicide-on-your-online-community-or-forums-how-you-can-help-and-protect-everyone/</link>
		<comments>http://www.managingcommunities.com/2009/06/22/dealing-with-suicide-on-your-online-community-or-forums-how-you-can-help-and-protect-everyone/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2009 20:29:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patrick</dc:creator>
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As a community manager or administrator, the situations we have to deal with are as varied as life itself. For all talk about the online and offline worlds being different, at the end of the day, they have more in common than they do dissimilar. Unfortunately, this is not just the fun, easy parts of [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>63</slash:comments>
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		<title>Ask Hunch: Should I Become a Forum Moderator?</title>
		<link>http://www.managingcommunities.com/2009/06/17/ask-hunch-should-i-become-a-forum-moderator/</link>
		<comments>http://www.managingcommunities.com/2009/06/17/ask-hunch-should-i-become-a-forum-moderator/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2009 22:10:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patrick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So, I was taking a look at Hunch, a site created by Flickr co-founder Caterina Fake, that claims to be a &#8220;decision-making tool that gets smarter the more you use it.&#8221; Out of curiosity, I punched in the word &#8220;forums&#8221; to see what would come up. The first result was &#8220;Should I become a forum [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>8</slash:comments>
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		<title>Guest Post on ProBlogger: &#8220;Enhance and Grow Your Online Community Through Appreciation&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.managingcommunities.com/2009/05/07/guest-post-on-problogger-enhance-and-grow-your-online-community-through-appreciation/</link>
		<comments>http://www.managingcommunities.com/2009/05/07/guest-post-on-problogger-enhance-and-grow-your-online-community-through-appreciation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2009 16:36:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patrick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over at ProBlogger, Darren Rowse was kind enough to allow me to provide a guest post that I titled &#8220;Enhance and Grow Your Online Community Through Appreciation.&#8221; In the post, I discuss how simple acts of appreciation can have noteworthy impact on the growth of your community. Here&#8217;s the closing excerpt:
Appreciation is a powerful thing. [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
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		<title>Video: &#8220;How to Deal with Trolls, Spammers &amp; Sock Puppets&#8221; Panel at Blog World Expo 2008</title>
		<link>http://www.managingcommunities.com/2009/04/26/video-how-to-deal-with-trolls-spammers-sock-puppets-panel-at-blog-world-expo-2008/</link>
		<comments>http://www.managingcommunities.com/2009/04/26/video-how-to-deal-with-trolls-spammers-sock-puppets-panel-at-blog-world-expo-2008/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Apr 2009 17:45:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patrick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At Blog World &#38; New Media Expo 2008, I was lucky enough to be on a pair of panels, sharing the stage with some great people. My friend Chrispian Burks was kind enough to record the panels for me and, in November, I posted the video from the &#8220;Avoiding Disaster: How Not to Use Social [...]]]></description>
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