Try different formats of interaction. Just keep experimenting. Ryan constantly collected feedback from members to learn about their experience and to make sure future designs aligned with what people wanted. He would send out design mocks and let members comment directly on them with his feedback. This made him confident that he was building the right thing, and it made members feel invested in the development of the platform.
Give those first members some time to interact and have an intimate experience. A good way to do this, similar to step 5, is to empower your members to invite new members to the community. And keep hosting live events! Ryan would go on to grow the community thoughtfully over time. As more and more people joined, they still limited who could post new products to the platform to a small group of people.
This kept the quality high. Soon they would give every current member the ability to invite three people to Product Hunt. The community started to grow organically, eventually gathering hundreds of thousands of members and reaching millions of visitors. In fact, they started hosting all kinds of live events to continue to bring the community together offline. There you have it. Pinky promise. Members will continue to go through the community engagement cycle over and over again as they become more engaged members of your community.
Some members will go on to become power users. Some will be active. Most will be passive. Not every community starts with a brunch. But every community starts with the foundation of identity, trust, participation and reward, and scaled it through an online platform.
Not everyone reading this will be starting at square one. Facebook relied on the existing student community at Harvard. Airbnb served as a platform for people attending a design conference.
This process works for any kind of brand community your organization might build. Support forums, idea exchanges, message boards. Every community needs a core group of members who are highly engaged and will create value for the rest of the members. This is how you get it started. David is the Founder of CMX cmxhub. Thousands of community professionals come to CMX for support and education in com David Spinks.
Place Making is an important part of building a strong community connection, you need to develop areas within your community that people want to visit and enjoy together. This can be done through shared parklands, shopping areas, cafes and elements such as community gardens.
Your community garden will die if the community are not aware they need to work together to tend to it. Events such as monthly gardening classes work to educate the community on gardening techniques as well as providing the community members the opportunity to form relationships with other people of similar interests. We also utilise Survey Monkey post event to send out a survey to the attendees — using the information gained from this to conduct a full debrief with the client.
It is important to ensure that the intricacies of your community have been taken into account when planning your events to ensure you achieve the best results. Events Outsourced can work with you when planning your community engagement activities and events to ensure that your community receives the best advice and opportunities to grow and thrive.
Events Outsourced are the trusted event management company in Sydney for growing Australian businesses looking to achieve strategic event outcomes. Members of the Now Fizzing group say that it fulfills their hunger for something positive on social media; that they become better people by virtue of participating. I was alone in a foreign country and way over my head at my job.
That group saved me from despair, and it became my family. Here at Groundwork! On a higher level, we are united because we care about our work, each other, and our community. These people became my family in a far-flung corner of the world. Our communities are places to be seen, heard, and understood. They are places where we can contribute our unique talents and bring our best selves forward. And with any great community, the output is exponential— problems are solved, projects are completed, and the work happens effortlessly because it is powered by love.
Author Recent Posts. Follow Sarah. Co-founder at Groundwork! Sarah lived all over South America, produced a documentary about Patagonia, and worked in digital marketing for a decade before settling in New Bedford to start Groundwork.
That means when people move they take a piece of the economy with them. This represents a vast change that cities, towns and regions need to recognize. In the past, a vital local economy was based on attracting large companies by offering inexpensive locations and a cheap labor force. The qualities of a particular place mattered little, and people migrated to where the jobs were.
We are seeing the emergence of Quality of Life as a key economic driver - factors ranging from good health care facilities to cultural institutions, vibrant public spaces to nature recreation opportunities — all crucial in attracting a skilled labor force and desirable employers. Our article, " Placemaking Pays Off ," focuses on two recent success stories in Detroit and Houston that detail how this can work. The valleys, meanwhile, are regions that have languished for years and cannot nurture or attract the innovative businesses and workers to improve their situation.
Adelaja notes that regions that will prosper are those with strategies that make the most of their assets. Cities and regions that thrive in the 21st Century will be differentiated by their lively neighborhoods and business districts, cultural and recreational attractions, great sense of place, protected natural areas, and deep pride in local character, products and foods.
They will achieve this through and open collaborative process with their citizens. In a down economy, it is tempting to cut back on these planning ideas, thinking that they are frivolous.
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