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The 7 Essential Meta Questions of Every Beta

Robert Cartaino, former Director of Community Development, wrote a blog post in 2010 titled The 7 Essential Meta Questions of Every Beta that set forth these questions every new community site should be able to answer:

  1. Are questions about [subject] on or off topic?
  2. What should our documentation contain?
  3. How should we tag questions about {subject}?
  4. Who should the moderators be?
  5. What’s the “elevator pitch” for our site?
  6. What should our logo and site design look like?
  7. How do we promote our site?