How do we create online interactions that will tap into the collective creative potential and propel an online global learning community to succeed?

• Adding value
• Establishing trust
• Controlling vandalism, graffiti, predation and pornography?
• Respecting copyright in a digital, networked environment?
• Overcoming the "critical mass hump" -- seeding the database, attracting & retaining users?
• Usability issues, what makes things easy and attractive?

Design Principles from Wikinomics (p. 286-289):

• Taking cues from your lead users
• Building critical mass
• Supplying an infrastructure for collaboration
• Take your time to get the structures and governance right
• Make sure all participants can harvest some value
• Abide by community norms
• Let the process evolve
• Hone your collaborative mind