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Episode Duration: 1:49:04
On This Episode: Douglas Bell (Fountain of Apples), David Lewis (Highway of Life), and Patrick O’Keefe

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On this episode, Patrick O’Keefe (owner of the iFroggy Network of blogs and communities) rejoins us on phpBB Weekly, this time to talk about his just-released brand new book, Managing Online Forums: Everything You Need to Know to Create and Run Successful Community Discussion Boards. After first talking with Patrick about how and why he wrote the book, we then go chapter by chapter, looking at the various points that he makes in his book and discussing them.

We do highly recommend this book (no, we’re not getting paid to say that) because it covers a lot of important things that prospective community admins should know that you won’t find in any user manual. If you want to find out more about why we’re so excited about this book, check out (no pun intended) this episode.

In addition, we wrap up our listener survey by doing our prize drawing! Winners have been notified by e-mail and should reply to the e-mail in order to receive their prize.

Related links for this episode:
Book Website
Book Press Release
ManagingCommunities.com Blog
CommunityAdmins.com Forums
Douglas’ Review of the Book

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You all may remember two months ago when Patrick O’Keefe joined us to talk about phpBBHacks.com, but he also gave us a teaser of his new book, Managing Online Forums. For those of you who have filled out our listener survey, the top prize in the giveaway is an autographed copy of his new book.

His book is officially launching on April 28th, however he is sending David and myself early review copies of his book, in addition to the autographed copy that we will be giving away. (My copy and the giveaway copy both arrived at my house today, actually.) David and I are going to be reading it over the next few weeks, and I’m personally going to be posting a review on my own blog towards the end of the month. In addition, Patrick will be rejoining us on phpBB Weekly #061 on Saturday, May 10th where we will be covering his book in detail and doing a full review on the show, in addition to giving you guys an opportunity to ask your own questions.

However, that episode will also be the episode where we will do the live drawing from all of the surveys that we have received, so if you want to enter the drawing, you will need to have your survey in no later than one hour before the show starts. We do want to thank everyone that has already completed a survey, because we really value your opinion here at phpBB Weekly and your responses help us to make the show better.

Incidentally, if you’re interested in some more to whet your appetite for Patrick’s book, I highly recommend that you check out this presentation from South By Southwest that Patrick made about his book.

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Episode Duration: 1:31:47
On This Episode: Douglas Bell (Fountain of Apples), David Lewis (Highway of Life), and Patrick O’Keefe

Today marks a very special milestone for phpBB Weekly (for any podcast, actually): our fiftieth episode! To celebrate, we bring you an interview that Douglas has been looking forward to for ten months. Patrick O’Keefe, the administrator of the iFroggy Network and phpBBHacks.com, joins us for a very interesting discussion.

During the interview, Patrick talks about phpBBHacks.com, including how and why it was started back in 2001 (yeah, it predates phpBB2!), and how it has grown and expanded in its seven year history. We also take an unbiased look at some of the differences between phpBBHacks.com and the phpBB.com MOD Database, and how phpBBHacks.com has become one of the most popular third-party phpBB sites on the internet (well, according to Google, anyway). He also talks a bit about his two websites for community administrators: ManagingCommunities.com (a blog) and CommunityAdmins.com (a community for communities). Finally, he tells us about his new book, Managing Online Forums, coming in late April. We will be reviewing his book on a future episode of phpBB Weekly, as well as giving away a copy! Stay tuned for more details on that.

David also answers a question in the TalkShoe chat room revealing that Ascraeus will feature the much-requested RSS Syndication feature built-in. We briefly talk about the significance of that feature addition.

And at the end of the show, David gives us his exclusive ski tips, based on the bloopers he endured earlier this week.

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