crosenblum - 5:38 pm on Feb 4, 2003 (gmt 0)

I have been a community builder as well, from the start of the bbs era of the 1980's to having my own football site for 5-6 years.

Running and building are both very strenous tasks, and can cause you to pull your hair out.

After my experiences, I created my own messageboard system with my own admin tools in ColdFusion.

But now that I am on a blog, I don't have the same choices or control. BTW Aimoo.com has some nice free options.

But I have always been looking for more information, resources and discussions.

One of my favorite books is by Amy Jo Kim called Community Building, has a lot of checklists and really logical planning methods for building community.

I think I have developed my own bag of tricks to help grow and develop a community.

But I would love to be able to share, and explore new tricks.