Launched Thursday. Social media lead generation through engagement of questions on Twitter.
Unicorns!
Create a Google Group to get started.
Track bugs in Google Code, GitHub, etc
Lots of interest...
Bug/feature requests
Spam
Communities are very hard to scale.
Take fanboys
and feed them
to make unicorns!
Managers of google groups and code projects
Let trusted users answer support questions on Twitter.
Editable documentation where proposed edits are visible but in an approval queue. Docs generated from code pushed to GitHub. Users can fork docs edit and submit pull requests.
Clearly show who is an official employee and who is a trusted community member.
Give them access to alpha features. NDA if absolutely required prefer trust.
Free tickets to conferences.
Give out free swag
Shout outs to awesome contributers.
Turn the user of your platform into a Foursquare style game with badges.
Facebook Operation Developer Love.
Track everything! Bug reports, emails to mailing lists, tweet counts, etc.
Identify the movers and shakers.
Hire from within the community.
Pay them to do what they already do. No training needed.
The community is the future of your platform. Treat it that way.