Here's to make your online community a 'great' one:

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• Fresh, concise &amp; relevant content. • Resourceful self-help content. • Where peer-to-peer support is encouraged. • A well-engaged community base. • A good cross-section of community members from all quarters of your TG. • Polite &amp; cooperative administrators/moderators (if you choose to adopt a visible administrator model) • Gamification enabled.

Ramnath Shenoy · Answer

This is a good checklist to start. I think it's also important to involve your community in setting the purpose and agenda of the community.  Answers to questions like Why does the community exist? What can you expect? Why should you join? - these are best when it comes from your members. I think this is the foundation of building a great community.