On Monday I start a new job that involves building a developer community around a software product.<p>(My employer makes a CMS-style platform. Developers create apps/modules that run on top of the platform.)<p>I was hired in large part because I have built a healthy developer community around my open source project, the Nitrogen Web Framework for Erlang (http://nitrogenproject.com).<p>Some lessons I've learned are:<p>- Focus on providing organization and growing leaders, you can't do everything
- Success is when a community starts answering its own questions
- Help to publicize anybody who blogs or tweets about you. This leads to more blogs or tweets
- If a picture is worth a thousand words, then a screencast is worth a thousand blog articles
- If all else fails, go to your newsgroup and answer one question at a time<p>Do you have experience in building tech communities? What lessons have you learned?<p>Any good books or articles?