How To Develop Your Community

Are you developing individuals or a group? Neither is bad, but they’re very different. If your community is for individuals to improve themselves, you can

Critical Mass of Activity

You don’t need a critical mass of people to create momentum. You need a critical mass of activity. Activity is energy that causes members to

Schedule Activity

Schedule a time for members to visit your community. In those first few weeks you need to stop members arriving, noticing a lack of activity

Building A Community To Find A Job

At least 60% of jobs aren’t advertised. The remaining 40% are fiercely competitive, less fun and not so well paid. But no-one’s too sure how

Beyond Registration

Communities need boundaries to exist, but too many rely on registration to distinguish between "us” and “them”. Your boundaries need to be tougher than that.

3 Obligations

If your favourite organisation doesn’t have a community, start building one. If you’re in a community you like, promote it as much as you can.

10 Ways To Create A Power Invite

If you want popular bloggers to join or write about your community, cram as much value into your invite as you possibly can 1) Explain

DUMB Objectives

That’s not an acronym. Quite literally, it means why not try using dumb objectives? Get 50% of our community using a word we’ve made up.

Did You Cripple Your Community?

Do SMART objectives drive your community? They're really crippling it. Business communities have a terrible failure rate. Your objectives are a huge part of the

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