building stronger communities - hernandez
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Building Stronger Communities Without Losing Your SanityTRANSCRIPT
Building Stronger Online Communities Without Losing
Your Sanity
Speakers
• Why online community is part of our work.
• Why community fits what we do.
Speakers
• Manny Hernandez– Founder, TuDiabetes and
EsTuDiabetes– Author, Ning For Dummies– @askmanny
Speakers
• Peggy Duvette– Exec. Director, WiserEarth– Advocates for building online
community capacity in NP sector– @wiserearth
Speakers
• Amy Sample Ward – Global Community Development
Manager, NetSquared.org– Blogger at AmySampleWard.org– @AmyRSWard– @NetSquared
Speakers
• Christine Egger – Co-Director, Social Actions– @SocialActions– @CDEgger
Dashboard and Hashtag
– Dashboard to share lessons &best practices: http://bit.ly/10ntcstrongbunch
– Twitter hashtag: #10NTC, #strongbunch
– Dashboard powered by THE EXTRAORDINARIES
Audience:
• What are you here to learn?
Before you even get started!
Can you devote enough capacity? If not, rethink!
You need a Community Manager
There is no auto-pilot
There is no auto-pilot
There is no auto-pilot
There is no auto-pilot
http://my.socialactions.com
http://socialactions.com/changetheweb
There is no auto-pilot
http://my.socialactions.com
There is no auto-pilot
There is no auto-pilot
There is no auto-pilot
There is no auto-pilot
There is no auto-pilot
Change the WebConversation Series
There is no auto-pilot
There is no auto-pilot
WiserEarth Editors Meet Up 2009
“WiserEarth has played, and will continue to play, many roles in
enabling change as our ever-evolving community connects and collaborates.”
“WiserEarth gives us the power to work collectively & avoid reinventing the
wheel. I hope to increase interconnections among good people.”
Know your community
WiserEarth Editors Meet Up 2009
Don’t under estimate the importance of face to face
Engage
Reward your power user
Listen
Empower your community
There is
no
auto-pilot
• Develop and enforce Guidelines
http://www.flickr.com/photos/furnari/3484546075/
Growing your community
• Your community has long legs!– TuDiabetes (on Ning)– Twitter: @tudiabetes– Facebook Page– RSS Syndication has
no limit... http://www.flickr.com/photos/ak4suna/4099079932/
Ask for
help
Leverage word of mouth
Growing your community
Integrating pushing out and cultivating inward
Growing your community
Lessons learned
• Know your community's ecology and who to give attention to.
• Set up modest goals at first for your community building
• Participation online is different: reward your power users
• Listen to your community
Audience:
• Challenges you have faced building your community?
Remember!
• Dashboard: http://bit.ly/10ntcstrongbunch
• Twitter hashtag: #10NTC, #strongbunch
• Follow us:– @askmanny– @wiserearth– @AmyRSWard– @CDEgger
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