Building Online Communities With Joomla

Barrie North from Compass Designs provides a detailed overview of online communities here: http://www.compassdesigns.net/tutorials/289-building-online-communities-with-joomla.html

- he touches briefly on what it is that makes a community a popular place to return to: ie giving registered users indide tools to call their own and facilitating discussion on articles, blogs, as well as discussion forums.
Some of the comments were very insightful:

• keep it simple
• think of it as a community
• listen to the community needs

Get even more details in his online tutorial http://www.simplweb.com/413-7.html