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UK Online for Business
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| - E-commerce and IT help and advice,
especially for small and medium-sized firms, from the
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Business Link |
| - The national network of advice centres for
businesses great and small. Local office finder with generic
information and advice.
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Ecademy |
| - Ecademy's cause is "to build the world's largest
Trusted Business Network by connecting people to each other -
enabling knowledge, contacts and opportunities to be shared
for World Wide Wealth". A great site to network with
similar minded people. |
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Ecommerce Awards |
| - Small business e-commerce awards
run by UK Online for Business (a DTI-lead partnership), included
are details on how to apply, lists of past winners, regional
winners and e-commerce advice. |
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Community
A group of people with a common interest or characteristic. A person or professional living together within a larger society.
If you already have a successful web site with a high level of visitors, do not assume that they will be there for ever. Just as in life where the latest bar / club in town may be the popular hang out one month and empty the next, the internet can be equally as fickle.
By creating a successful community where people of similar interests enjoy and benefit from interacting with each other, they will keep coming back. There are communities on the web covering just about every facet of life you can think of, discussing topics from cartoon reviews and cooking recipes to drug abuse and organ transplants.
A successful community meets the primary goals of its owners, but more importantly has a clear purpose in the lives of its members.
There is no cut and dried method to encourage community spirit on the Web. By setting out a clear plan of what you are hoping to achieve with your community, defining why you are building it, who you are building it for and what type of community it is you’re building , you will be able to focus and stick to what you have set out to do.
Communities aren't built in a day. They are unlikely to even built in a month. Building a community involves growing your site traffic, increasing content, discussing issues, and allowing others to provide and share the experience.
Certain tools are used to help encourage community spirit on a web site, including user lists, internet groups, chat rooms, message boards, newsgroups and people searches.
forums, diaries, user search, instant messaging, online chat, internal mail systems
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