The Problems of a Growing Community (Blog)

by Matt on Mar 24, 2010 in Blogging

Good post today on Talk About Local by Clare White about the problems that crop up when you have a growing community on/around your hyperlocal blog/site. It’s a point that I don’t think gets talked about too often: We all love and want to grow our readers, commenters, community … but more people can mean more problems. Clare talks about these:

And it’s not just a list of problems; Clare also covers some possible solutions for each. Here’s the full article: Community surgery: how to tackle the problems that could kill your blog.

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March 24, 2010 | Filed Under Blogging 

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3 Responses to “The Problems of a Growing Community (Blog)”

  1. Becca on March 26th, 2010 8:47 pm

    Thanks for sharing this blog post. I’ll be really happy when I get to the point where I’m saying that “we’re too big”! What a great problem to have.

  2. Dave Oremland on March 30th, 2010 5:49 pm

    Matt: Just read some stuff and had to stop by. Before doing so though, I visited a hyperlocal blog that you’ve referenced several times, and coincidentally covers the region where I grew up; baristanet.com

    Just a suggestion: you should add some in depth interviews of some of the folks that run often cited “successful” hyperlocal blogs, such as baristanet. Doing so would develop a sort of current “best practices” guide. It would be both fascinating and instructional.

  3. Wayne on April 2nd, 2010 8:49 pm

    Agree – bring on the “we’re too big” problem. I’ll take that on with glee! :)

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