What a curious site. iContact Community merges blogs, forums, and voting into a single site. There are two main kinds of users:

1) Publishers
2) Members

It appears being a member is free. The idea is that you can browse through the publisher's blog posts--which are pretty much advertisements. Publishers pay a fee to blog and send newsletters to a mailing list that they create through the site.

Publishers can:

• Create a list
• Add a contact
• Create a message
• Create a campaign
• Create a blog

The publishers are broken up into:

I have been spending quite a bit of time on the TechSoup Forums. It is a vibrant community with many folks asking and answering questions related to Non Profit Technology and how it can be integrated and embraced in pursuit of an organization's mission.

I think a lot about how, even for groups with little intersection with tech, NPT can be woven into the fabric of nonprofits ranging from use of email, to forums, to building listserv, and in a Web presence.

Community is key to the success of all nonprofits.

1. The community that the nonprofit serves
2. The community that funds the nonprofit

The communities need to be cared and nutured. If they are not looked after, then the community shrivels up and goes away. This doesn't necessarily mean that the community needs to grow, but it does need to be maintained.