A bit more than a week has passed since the great EPiServer Days was hosted in Stockholm, Sweden. It was two days packed with amazing stuff such as keynotes, technical seminars, not-so-technical seminars and heaps of partners and customers – great times! I think that almost everyone who attended the event thought it was time well spent.
The first day was hosted at Kistamässan, this was the main event day with keynotes and short general sessions. I did a 30 minutes talk about “How to develop an online community”. I think the session went well, even though it’s hard to say something useful about such a wide topic in just 30 minutes. Despite this I hope that everyone got something to think about in their next community project.
When I started to work on my presentation my first assumption was to look at from a developer’s point of view. But I quickly realized that a lot of the things to think about when heading into a community project is things not usually handled by a developer. However my experience tells me that these things are to complex for the ordinary project leader, and thereby I think it’s best if the developers step up and take some extended responsibility to make sure you don’t step into one of the community pitfalls. So I decided to target my presentation to this “more responsible developer”.
I spent great deal of session talking about the difference between a traditional website and a community. I think this is the single most important thing to know when developing a community, especially for people who have mostly worked with classic CMS sites in the past. The main idea is to consider the difference between pages and objects, editors and moderators, editors and users, visitors and users, etc.
I made my slides available through SlideShare below. I’m sorry to say to all the international readers, the slides are in Swedish since the session was given in Swedish.
I also did a session day two of the EPiServer Days 2009, this time together with Johan Björnfot – a colleague at EPiServer. More about this session in a later blog post.
By the way, check out the all the tweets connected to the EPiServer Days here.
EPiServer has now made all of the material from the days available for download at the World website. My presentation in PDF from the first day can be found here, note that the slides are in Swedish.
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