Dec 10
20
An Open Letter on Community…
Some of you know I’ve been working furiously on my Paleo Diet eBook these last few weeks. It’s been great to get back to “real” writing in a word processor and take a more serious tone in my work. It reminds me of college and that’s kinda cool. 
The other thing this project has done for me is bring me back into the technical world. I spent some time here when I was originally building my blog and was absolutely blown away by how helpful and supportive everyone is. The forum I’ve spent most time on is The Warrior Forum. I’ve been able to get EVERY programming, website and general question I’ve had answered – usually in a few minutes to an hour – on this forum. Another cool thing is that you can search the archives and see PAST conversations and learn from them and add to them to (we can’t currently do this on Facebook).
Community is King
I’m really excited about the whole community thing and have a longer post about it coming. In the meantime, I want to throw this out there. Most of you have heard of WordPress. In over 15 years of working with computers and software I can say that WordPress is hands down the easiest and most problem free application I have ever come accross. What does that have to do with community? WordPress is a FREE, open source application that has one of the tightest, smartest and most helpful communities behind it.
Think of the WordPress community as the CrossFit of blogging
Our Own Community
With all the time I’ve recently spent on message boards, it’s made me think again about OUR OWN community and the SINS Forum we started a while back. This past September, I had created a full vBulletin forum for the SINS community. There were a few enthusiastic early adopters on the forums, but we just didn’t have the “critical mass” it took to get the forum off the ground. On top of that, there were issues with Spam and a few technical glitches that probably kept things from running as smoothly as they could.
The Spam is dealt with and the technical stuff is coming along. I’m also looking into integrating the stand-alone forum more tightly with Facebook.
So, my question to all of you is this: Are you interested in giving the stand alone forum another shot? If enough of you are behind it I’ll get back to work on the project and roll it back out in January. Personally, I think we have so many GREAT discussions on the SINS Facebook page and it’s a shame that many of them “roll off” the page and die out. A forum would be a little more permanent and allow us to connect more strongly as well as preserve our conversations for others to read and join as time went on. With better Facebook integration, we’d keep the SINS Facebook experience going and growing AND we’d have a deeper more permanent aspect to the experience on the stand-alone forum as well.
I’ve seen so much great support and sharing in the other communities I’m part of and it inspires me to take what we do on the SINS page to the next level.
Let me know what your thoughts are in a comment below and if you’d like to get involved in the project directly.
ttys
Adam
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