Community Engagement
how to engage a community
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Community Engagement
Home - BELONG: Find Your People, Create Community, and Live a More Connected Life
Radha Agrawal • 3 highlights
belongbook.comIn the 25 years I’ve been studying communities, the most depressing part is that people still start communities (social apps, sites, any company that lets people talk to each other) without thinking through who, exactly, is going to manage the community and how. But it would be ridiculous to start a bar without a bartender.
A community isn’t a garden, it’s a bar.
One of the best ways to grow community engagement is to ask for feedback, take it seriously, and act upon it with excitement. The feedback loops and demonstration of it do wonders for investment from members.
TLDR: If you truly give a damn, they will too
Mike MacCombietwitter.com8 ways to empower people to show up as active co-creators in your community
Fabian Pfortmüllermedium.com
Maybe it’s time we grow out of the idealism of the first 30 years of the web and start looking at what we’re really doing online with each other. It’s not always healthy, but we do it anyway. It’s something that adults do because we have a deep need to gather and talk, but we can’t include everyone all the time. And maybe sometimes it gets too... See more
A community isn’t a garden, it’s a bar.
