How-To: Six Conditions that Form Smoking Online Communities
Like a tornado, online communities only form under certain conditions. If you’re looking to build an online community, understand that they are very difficult to build artificially. They seem to only emerge from natural conditions. Indeed, you can help them emerge, but you can’t *create* them in my experience, says Nick Lewis.
There are the 6 essential conditions that he has observed as necessary in building online communities.
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