Month: November 2013

On Feb 20, we’re hosting the Virtual Community Summit. This is an annual gathering, in London, of the world’s top community professionals. This year we’re

No-one you know shouts; “hey look at me, I have an incredibly important job and earn a lot of money!” Society would consider this rude,

For a community of practice, the temptation is always towards the serious. That's serious discussions, serious content, and serious events.  This puts the community into

Fear of missing out (FoMO) is now salient.  Every time you visit Facebook, Twitter, or your community site, you can see everything you're missing. That

Buzzfeed recently struck upon a winner. They pick a popular group and write about some funny occurences amongst that group.  It should be obvious why

We’re hiring a community manager for our exclusive CommunityGeek community. This community is for people that love discussing the social sciences (and data), side of

ModelMayhem is a community with two core constituents; models and photographers. There are many communities where two groups like this come to meet.  For these

We have been testing a different approach with a client. It’s an inception-stage community. Typically, the community manager continually nudges members to participate. This usually

Low activity is a relatively simple problems to diagnose. If you have low levels of activity, you have three questions to answer: 1) Does the