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# How to screw-up a publisher community
- URL: https://onemanandhisblog.com/2013/11/how_to_screw-up_a_publisher_community/
- Published: 2013-11-24T22:36:10.000Z
- Updated: 2015-04-08T16:06:19.000Z
- Author: Adam Tinworth
- Tags: community, community management, community strategy

[Ouch](http://www.feverbee.com/2013/11/speed-and-pivots.html?ref=onemanandhisblog.com):

> The organizations that have the idea for a community, spend weeks selecting a platform, months developing it, and a year before they invite anyone to participate, tend to struggle…a lot. Typically they splutter along for six months before being mercifully cancelled.

I bet anyone who’s worked in community development within any sizable publisher is wincing right now.