Comments on: How an online community is different from a Social Network

By: Who is the best critique for your startup? | Prateek Dayal

Who is the best critique for your startup? | Prateek Dayal — Wed, 21 May 2008 08:50:44 +0000

[...] You are working hard on your startup and you meet tons of new people every week and tell them about your startup. If you are lucky, probably 1% of them would love your startup and show it. This is certainly true in our case. If I go to a barcamp or OCC or other startup events, less than 1% of the people there are excited to hear about Muziboo. Most people dismiss the concept as yet another social network (about which I wrote here). [...]

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The Virtual Address « — Wed, 21 May 2008 06:54:25 +0000

[...] Virtual Address Read a very interesting argument yesterday here on how an online community is different from a group on a social network, or is [...]

By: Prateek Dayal

Prateek Dayal — Tue, 20 May 2008 14:50:43 +0000

@ashish

Thanks for the comment. When I say neutral I mean … moderating topics being discussed or having an official stand on something (not related to running the place). For example, we don’t moderate the discussions or stop people from writing something that they don’t like about the place in comments etc.

@manuscrypts

We have not really touched base with them because we feel at this point they won’t really appreciate what we are doing. We are welcoming one and all and slowly building the community. Freedom Jam is for most part for “professional bands” and amateurs are at best an audience there.

By: Prateek Dayal

Prateek Dayal — Tue, 20 May 2008 14:50:00 +0000

@ashish

@manuscrypts

By: manuscrypts

manuscrypts — Tue, 20 May 2008 13:10:19 +0000

just an afterthought, in the case of muziboo, myspace might be a better fit than fb because of their work on campus bands etc… the other two entities i see a connection with are worldspace and sunday freedom jam, but maybe you’ve already touched base with them :)

By: manuscrypts

manuscrypts — Tue, 20 May 2008 13:10:00 +0000

By: ashish

ashish — Tue, 20 May 2008 11:38:21 +0000

Good post dude!
To answer ishwar’s point, I’d say that founders need to seed the community..and in a due course of time, find out who is the “influencer”, and most importantly the ‘mavens’ (ref: tipping pt)
I know few community managers in india and its more of an operational role..but startup cant afford to have such roles in their payroll..

PRateek – I dont completely agree with ‘online communities try to stay neutral.” – good online communities are formed only if there is an opinion (techmeme?)
If you meant “neutral” as in platform neutrality, I do agree with you

-ashish

By: ashish

ashish — Tue, 20 May 2008 11:38:00 +0000

-ashish

By: Prateek

Prateek — Tue, 20 May 2008 06:33:22 +0000

Wow .. thats an insightful comment .. very true .. probably the reason why most of us try to have some presence in facebook .. in the form of an app .. because getting noticed (coz of newsfeeds etc) is very easy …

By: Prateek

Prateek — Tue, 20 May 2008 06:33:00 +0000