Pod and Vodcasting Skills

Online Communities
(½ day)
Ideal for
Anyone who wants to get more visitors to their website by encouraging interaction through polls, message boards and blogs.
Benefits
Delegates will be exposed to the issues that affect communities on websites and come away with ideas for how to grow the traffic to their sites.
Content of the ½ day

• Defining an online community
• Building your community
• Messages from you to them...
• Messages from them to you...
• Online voting
• Blogging with comments
• Forums and discussions
• Social networking services
• What makes a site easy to use and engage with
• Balancing complexity and user features
• Meeting the expectations of potential online readers both new and experienced
• Managing forums and blogs