The growth of successful online communities is entirely dependent on the amount of interesting, useful, and engaging information that the site offers. People don’t collaborate just for the sake of collaborating. You have to ask them questions and pose problems that require cooperation to solve.
That being said, what exactly IS APCN? Right now it is just a loosely structured collection of groups that focus on specific issues.
I think there is tremendous value in the larger APCN community members exchanging ideas.
So what should we turn APCN into? A place for lessons learned from exercises? A knowledge base for anyone interested in Africa? A place to share information in response to natural disasters and humanitarian assistance missions? A place for Africa, European, American, and other global partners to exchange ideas? A forum for bringing together Subject Matter Experts?
I'd like to hear your ideas.