Geoffworth is seeking advice on starting a community from scratch to collaborate and share market research. He considers using a wiki with discussion support and wonders if Discourse is the best platform for this purpose. HAWK responds that Discourse is a great fit and recommends additional resources for choosing a platform (CMX Hub’s guide) and building a community (Feverbee’s guide). HAWK also suggests exploring Discourse’s Knowledge Base theme component to enhance documentation ease of use.
I work for an edge computing startup and we recently released all our market research (see here and here) and want to start a community to actively collaborate and share the total market understanding. We are thinking to do this as a wiki with as valuable discussion support around it as possible.
Can anybody advise if Discourse is the best platform to do this with and if there are any examples of people who are already using it this way? I hope this is the right place to ask this question and I appreciate all/any guidance on the right platform to choose and also how to build a good community.
Hi Geoff,
That is a great use case for Discourse, yes. If you want some additional resources for choosing a platform (you’ll likely not get an objective opinion here) then check out The CMX Guide to Community Platforms
If you have specific questions then drop them here and I’d be happy to help.
Also check out Justin’s new Knowledge Base theme component: Knowledge Base That will help with ease of use when it comes to trawling through documentation.