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Let's Build Community!
Let's Build Community!
It is sometimes not straightforward to build a group of like-minded people. However if we have a clear vision and idea, follow best practices where others have succeeded, harness Communication technologies to manage engagement and run activities, you might just succeed without breaking a sweat!
Three Levels of Communities
Three Levels of Communities
- Community Domain: members share a domain of interest, commitment to the domain, and therefore a shared competence that distinguishes members from other people.
- Community Platform: members engage in joint activities and discussions, help each other, and share information.
- Community of Practice: members develop a shared repertoire of resources: experiences, stories, tools, ways of addressing recurring problems
Types of Communities You can Start
Types of Communities You can Start
- Communities of transaction: emphasize the importance of buying and selling products in a social online manner where people must interact in order to complete the transaction.
- Communities of interest: online interaction of people with specific knowledge on a certain topic.
- Communities of fantasy: encourage people to participate in online alternative forms of reality, such as games where they are represented by avatars.
- Communities of relationship: reveal or partially protect someone's identity while allowing them to communicate with others, such as in online dating services.
Why Start a Community?
Why Start a Community?
- Serve as common ground for people who share the same interests
- From around activities and hobbies.
- Can help inform, advise and support members i.e. health care communities
- Students can take classes online and they may communicate with their professors and peers online.
- Businesses communicate with their customers about their products and services as well as to share information about the business.
- allow a wide variety of professionals to come together to share thoughts, ideas and theories.
How To Create and Run a Community?
How To Create and Run a Community?
Step 1. Decide on what your community is about
- What is the goal, aim and intentions?
- Why would people want to group together?
- Is it about a profession, hobby, activity, product, cause or social factor?
Step 2. Forming a core group
- Gather interested participants and start a communication channel.
- Appoint a leader and initial roles for your core group.
- Get ideas and tips and plan how to setup and run the community.
Step 3: Select and Develop a Community Platform
- Choose a community platform and the services required to run the community.
- Simple Communication: Emails (Listservs), Instant Messenging Groups (Whatsapp Group, Telegram Groups)
- Interactive Platforms: Community Forums, Collaborative Inboxes, Membership Management Software i.e. facebook groups, Raklet etc.
- Enterprise Level/ SaaS/ ERPs: Slack, Lark
- Services: discussion forums, blogs, wiki, Calendar, Events Booking, file Repositories
Step 4: Create Community Interactions, Activities and Engagement Opportunities
- Organise sharing sessions where members can share and exchange stories on topics of mutual interest.
- Recruit more participants for the community through each session.
- Visit other established communities to learn and exchange tips.
- Form Subcommittees and groupings for other members to lead and run activities.
Other Tips and Guides
Other Tips and Guides
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