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Continuing our usability series using YAP as a case study (see previous posts: the engagement snapshot, subgroups and last members online), here’s one I particularly like: the profile bar.

This is a feature which Groupsites.com (where YAP is hosted) has as standard, and is similar to the profile bar we all know from LinkedIn:

See how [...]

You’re invited to join Social Media Club DC (SMC-DC), Young Association Professionals (YAP), NextGenWeb, and Thankfulfor.com at a happy hour to celebrate the DC metro technology and social media community and to support Tweetsgiving.
Join the DC group for event updates and get tickets here: http://epicchange.org/groups/washington-dc/home/. If you can’t make it, please consider making a small [...]

Continuing our usability series using YAP as a case study (posts 1 and 2 are here and here) , here’s a little thing that is super important for the home page: the Last Members Online widget.

The most important piece of any online community is the people in it. Show them off!
I [...]

A really good – and important – closing thought about BlogPotomac from DCMediaMakers co-founder and Twitter buddy Jill Foster (filmed by Terri Holley @creativeblogs).

Lindy and I also, like Jill, attended all three BlogPotomacs, and it’s a little bit of a wistful moment for me to think about our newbieness at the first one compared [...]

Usability series: Subgroups

by Maddie Grant on October 15, 2009

This is the second in a series of posts about usability and user experience for building online communities. The first post talked about the engagement snapshot. In this post, I want to talk about creating subgroups, again using YAP as case study.
We always talk about how community happens in small groups. Small groups [...]