Community Engagement
how to engage a community
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Community Engagement
Why we stopped trying to engage passive community members—the 3 circles model.
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.
Stickiness = Daily Active Users / Monthly Active Users
S = DAU/MAU
It asks, "Of the members who were active in the last 30 days, how many are active today?"
I love that it removes inactives and focuses on the depth of engagement amongst your active members.
David Spinkstwitter.comHome - BELONG: Find Your People, Create Community, and Live a More Connected Life
Radha Agrawal • 3 highlights
belongbook.comThe big problem with the garden metaphor is that it treats the community members as a crop that just grows, like a natural resource. To quote Utah Phillips, “Have you seen what they do to valuable natural resources? Have you seen a strip mine? Have you seen a clear cut in the forest? Have you seen a polluted river? Don’t ever let them call you a... See more
A community isn’t a garden, it’s a bar.
There is often no compelling reason, even in online communities, to suggest people go into different rooms to discuss different topics.