At Reno-Tahoe WordCamp 2010 I talked about building a niche community with BuddyPress.

1. Building a Community
With

2. A little about me...

3. BuddyPress is a
Social networking platform

10. Whats so great
about BP?
It’s NOT Facebook

11. Be different
• Build your own brand
• Emphasize design
• Don’t let people know your it’s BP

25. Myth
build it and they will come

26. Build a Niche

27. Who?
What?
Why?

28. Lead by Example

29. Vivanista is a
community for philanthropic living and giving

31. Rebranding

32. Widgetize

33. Custom Profile Template

34. Custom Navigation

35. A few other things
to keep and grow your user base

36. Make it sticky

37. Make it social

38. Make it easy

39. Forms

40. A few plug-ins
• TwitConnect • Users to CSV
• BuddyPress Facebook • Gravity Forms
Connect
• SEO for BP
• Welcome Pack
• Social Sharing
• Invitations *
• Facebook Share

41. Speed
• Content Delivery Networks (CDN)
• Batcache, WP-Super-Cache
• Minify files

42. BP blogs
you should be reading

43. Jeff Sayre
http://jeffsayre.com
Paul Gibbs
http://byotos.com/
Bowe Frankema
http://www.bp-tricks.com/
Andy Peatling
http://apeatling.wordpress.com/
Rich Fuller http://buddypress.org/blog/
http://blog.etiviti.com/
Marshall Sorenson
Slava Abakumov http://marshallsorenson.com/
http://cosydale.com
Boone Gorges
Boone Gorges http://dev.commons.gc.cuny.edu/
http://teleogistic.net/
Toby Cryns
Brajesh Singh http://www.themightymo.com
http://buddydev.com
Brajesh Singh
Francesco Laffi http://www.thinkinginwordpress.com/
http://flweb.it/
WPMU.org Team
Tammie Lister http://wpmu.org
http://buddydress.com

44. Questions?

45. Thank you
Annie Vranizan
@aVranizan
annie@vivanista.com
www.annievranizan.com