Nurturing the inner geek, I've been playing around awhile with Social Seychelles, creating a logo using a site online, adding features, developing the look, feel and tone of the site and writing content, such as the community guidelines. Having managed a couple of similar projects in the UK I'm comfortable with what needs to be done but needed a few guinea pigs to test it out. I primed some and the others just got a pleasant surprise in their inbox. Each was asked to invite two other people to join so that I'd have between 10-20 trial members. Unsurprisingly, as previous experience has borne out, you get a couple of enthusiastic people who do a good job, a few who mosy about but do little and others that don't bother at all. Of course, the whole
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