DEVELOPING YOUR COMMUNITY
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a part of a community, you are a part of a community. Do you want someone
who wants to hide or doesn’t really want to be seen on your site? Maybe you
do, maybe you don’t. If you do allow invisibility, make sure that your staff
members don’t take advantage of it—staff members are to be public, visible
examples to your community. Don’t hide them.
Setup Options
Let’s talk about a few key items in the visual setup and early organization of
your site.
What Guests See
Allowing nonmembers to view the posts that are
already on your site will allow them to get a feel for it and could entice them
to register, especially when they see something that they would like to com-
ment on. But make sure that in order to comment, they have to