Community leaders deserve better.

I really liked this — there's a wave of need for this — content is so easily accessible but the quality is always in question. As more and more of it gets put in our faces, the reader's job becomes batting away the bad content (rather than sourcing it from a magazine or specific blog). I'm trying to find ways to combat this. Does any one have any good solutions?

tl;dr

Li Jin coined the word Passion Economy and after running a community herself she and David Sherry wrote this open letter to help community leaders.

A community platform should have a feature set that accomplishes two key goals:
(1) to make the community leader's life easier, and
(2) to improve member experience.

Here are 10 features that we wish we had in a unified platform, based on real experience running and leading communities:

1. Member directory
2. Payments and built-in monetization models
3. Knowledge hub
4. A better, built-in application flow and onboarding experience
5. Email digests
6. Ability to engage across different channels
7. Calendar integration & video service integration for organizing and joining events
8. Analytics & automated actions in response to member activity
9. Member tiers, permissions, sub-groups
10. Smarter matching/conversation suggestions

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In my honest opinions these are some of the great features but to begin with we don't need a lot of features. In the initial days we should focus on building meaningful relationships and to provide value to people in the community.

What do you all think?