Comments on: Building Community – The Sites that are Getting it Right!

By: Arron Lock

Arron Lock — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 16:58:32 +0000

@ Niki Brown and @Rob Bowen -

Slipknot also came from Iowa. Just sayin’. Sorry kinda off topic but I had to throw that in there.

By: Rob Bowen

Rob Bowen — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 15:45:53 +0000

Thanks for all the discussion, folks! We are glad you respond to the post.

@ Niki Brown – I didn’t know you were from Iowa…have you ever been to that baseball fiel- :-p kidding. I understand that. It would get old, fast. It’s like that’s all that has ever happened in Iowa as far as most folks are concerned.

By: Niki Brown

Niki Brown — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 15:12:02 +0000

oh man…

not a comment of any worth but I hate that quote from field of dreams… must be because i’m from iowa and everyone asks about the stupid baseball field in dyersville iowa.

By: Luis Lopez

Luis Lopez — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 09:32:08 +0000

I really love the envato network, is awesome all the field they cover, every designer has to pass for one those site, if he want to learn, to buy or to sell a product.
and Smashing magazine is also and incredible community.
Excellent post

By: Analise Smith

Analise Smith — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 22:54:41 +0000

@Corey I think the best video community by far is vimeo. The videos are so high quality and the fact that the videos are usermade makes it so much more personal. And I agree youtube has a terrible community

By: Ionut Ciursa

Ionut Ciursa — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 04:16:10 +0000

I think that Tutorial9.net is has a great community too. David has always been interested in offering valuable and free content to the design community through Tutorial9.

By: Rob Bowen

Rob Bowen — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 19:08:40 +0000

Thanks for all the great replies and suggestions. So many links to check out, so we appreciate that.

@ shauna – What happened to Deviant Art, indeed? …

@ stelabouras – Thanks for the tip, but (and I may be wrong on this so we will check) I think that is done on purpose. But we’ll find out. Thanks also for the read and the comment!

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By: Damian Madray

Damian Madray — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 15:29:32 +0000

These are all great sites to learn from. Hopefully an up and coming community is http://www.designerscouch.org.

Love the article, will check out these places (the ones I don’t know of)

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By: stelabouras

stelabouras — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 11:16:22 +0000

Great article!

Tip: You can use “s=50″ argument on Gravatar images url in order not to be blurry ;)

By: shauna

shauna — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 05:16:57 +0000

what happened to http://www.deviantart.com

By: Dan Denney

Dan Denney — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 02:23:22 +0000

Great article, featuring some great sites. To me, the best thing about the design community is the sharing. I am extremely thankful for sites such as these because they make up 80% or more of the design knowledge that I have.

I have to say that the FUEL team is definitely “getting it right”. Take some time to check out the talented peeps that are heading up this growing network of sites…

By: John E Lincoln

John E Lincoln — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 23:04:50 +0000

With all the competition today, building an online community has become about as difficult as trying to gather water from the ocean with simply your hands, each time you scoop up a handful of visitors about half fall through the cracks, escaping backing into the online ocean that is the Internet.

As anyone knows who has attempted to take on this daunting task, the more hands you have the better.

If you’re interested in getting noticed, you can’t simply rely on one site, you’ve got to broadcast yourself over a variety of engines and take some initiative. Social media, content outreach, link building, RSS feeds, bookmarking, SEO, PPC and blogging are key to a well rounded, inclusive, community.

Sure, build a good site, and they will come. But build a good site with externals pulling in traffic each day and you’ll have a much better chance of keeping the water in your tide-pool.

Great post. Some examples of communities I like:
http://www.surfline.com
http://www.wd40.com/ (A great job for a corporate community with a difficult product to promote)
http://www.bizsandiego.com
http://www.linkedin.com
http://www.espn.com
Fuel brand network. My props to you guys for creating an amazing creative space with the passion behind the content people in our industry demand.

By: Arron Lock

Arron Lock — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 22:03:43 +0000

Great list!

I don’t want to take anything away from these web site because I have found them truly helpful and inspirational at times but I do want to mention that I have been working on a “Design Community” resource site for a while now and we are just about to launch.

http://www.creativeshout.com is looking for contributors and ideas to make this a killer resource for designers.