Richard Millington
Founder: FeverBee * Author: Buzzing Communities
Learn the powerful psychology
behind the web's most succesful communities
Book Rich to speak
Community and Psychology
Richard Millington has spent the past decade helping 250+ companies develop some of the world’s largest online communities.
Richard is the founder of FeverBee, an international community consultancy, and the author of Buzzing Communities. Richard’s clients have included Google, Facebook, Oracle, Wikipedia, EMC, Greenpeace, and many more. Prior to FeverBee, Richard interned with Seth Godin in New York.
Richard specialises in helping organisations understand the psychology behind successful communities.
Richard can help your audience to:
- Increase the level of activity and participation.
- Get new members to join and stay active
- Measure the value and ROI of communities.
- Explain communities to your boss.
- Change member behavior in your favour.
- Nurture advocates.
How to Build A Powerful Sense of Community
The best way to build a successful community is to deliberately cultivate a psychological sense of community. This is a deliberate, scientific, process anyone can master and use as a blueprint
What the attendees said
Great job, @RichMillington! I thought it was absolutely fantastic. Enjoy your traveling! I’ll be here.. reading your book. #mozcon
— Destiny Brassfield (@DesBrassfield) July 14, 2014
@EAMillar You'll appreciate the #mozcon talk by @RichMillington on building online communities! Can't wait to share my notes!
— Rachel Jefferson (@Nealy17) July 14, 2014
@RichMillington basically outlined the framework of every organized religion in history in 40 minutes. Impressive. #MozCon
— Craig Ballinger (@cballinger) July 14, 2014
@RichMillington - best presentation of the day thus far. Would love to chat about the Wistia community if I can track you down. Beer's on me
— Ezra Fishman (@ezrafishman) July 14, 2014
Didn't expect a reminder of Australia's 2005 Ashes loss at a US marketing conference. Other than that great info @RichMillington #mozcon
— Laura Skelley (@llskelley) July 14, 2014
@RichMillington thanks for presenting; I really enjoyed it!
— Scott Sundblom (@scottas) July 14, 2014
@RichMillington Enjoyed your #mozcon presentation, lots of good ideas. Good luck w/your travels. I took 18 months - amazing times!
— Allie Williams (@allieewilliams) July 14, 2014@RichMillington can't wait to read it! Found your presentation super interesting and entertaining #mozcon
— Allison Sens (@AllisonKara) July 15, 2014
@RichMillington amazingly insightful presentation at #Mozcon, have favorited your blog and will be spreading the word in AU!
— Mike Van Der Heijden (@mikevdheijden) July 15, 2014
@RichMillington took a lot from your presentation! Thanks for the great insight.
— Stephanie Lund (@StephanieLund1) July 14, 2014
@RichMillington excellent presentation! Love the humour. Have a good time on your travels.
— Jackson Lo (@jackson_lo) July 14, 2014
@RichMillington @philnottingham great talk today. Best thus far
— Harris Schachter (@OptimizePrime) July 14, 2014
@RichMillington awesome talk... My boss is going to think that I'm so smart!
— James Taylor (@iammadeforthis) July 14, 2014
.@richmillington just crushed it! A very unique perspective on Group Manipulation as a community builder and marketing strategy. #MozCon
— Trenton Greener (@TrentonGreener) July 14, 2014
@randfish in the audience asking about content curation! Awesome presentation and tips @RichMillington! #mozcon pic.twitter.com/SdR38VfoNA
— Justine Marie Meza (@justinemeza) July 14, 2014
Great talk @RichMillington - Experiment on building exclusive community: "Besides being a manipulative bastard, what have I done?" #mozcon
— Julie Neumark (@julieneumark) July 14, 2014
@philnottingham yeah, best talk. @richmillington
— Shalin Jain (@Shalin10) July 14, 2014
Thank you, what an amazing presentation on creating real communities. @RichMillington #mozcon pic.twitter.com/EfbycEoDrl
— willegan (@willegan) July 14, 2014
Great presentation from @RichMillington: How to Use Social Science to Build Addictive Communities http://t.co/bsYXM4zafn #mozcon
— Ross Hudgens (@RossHudgens) July 14, 2014
@BeckyLehmann @RichMillington Same here! I was too busy taking notes, I couldn’t switch over.
— Destiny Brassfield (@DesBrassfield) July 14, 2014
Will the #MozCon presentation videos be available for @Moz pro members? Need to watch @RichMillington again
— Etela Ivkovic (@Etela) July 14, 2014
Absolutely loved this morning's #mozcon talk from @RichMillington. Actionable and smart. http://t.co/eLx4K6ZBR7
— Phil Nottingham (@philnottingham) July 14, 2014
Great presentation form @RichMillington on creating and maintaining communities. #mozcon
— Ray Watson (@raywatson) July 14, 2014
@RichMillington Thank you for the presentation!
— Tatu Patronen (@tatupatronen) July 14, 2014
Rocking the stage at #mozcon - fantastic talk by @RichMillington pic.twitter.com/6JipyRJsdm
— Nathalie Nahai (@TheWebPsych) July 14, 2014
"create the sense of community" - Great talk on digital communities by @richmillington #mozcon
— Faheem ul Afaq (@afaq62) July 14, 2014
.@RichMillington really enjoyed ur talk on building community. Crosses into so many different categories even beyond SEO marketing. #mozcon
— Aaron Marth (@aaronmarth) July 14, 2014
Awesome preso @RichMillington #MozCon 7th secret. Break into sub groups as group gets larger. pic.twitter.com/NTG9vj6Ot6
— ryan (@ryaninnz) July 14, 2014
@RichMillington Fabulous presentation! Lots of great info to take back.
— Jody McCombe (@JodyMtweets) July 14, 2014
@megansingley @Moz @RichMillington yeah it’s pretty killer in building group dynamics. LOVE it too #Mozcon
— Luke Summerfield (@SavvyLuke) July 14, 2014
@RichMillington Great talk at #Mozcon! Left me laughing and inspired!
— Doug Holt (@DougHoltOnline) July 14, 2014
Really enjoyed @RichMillington's session on building addictive communities. #MozCon
— Jed Kent (@jedkent) July 14, 2014
@RichMillington Fantastic presentation. Thanks!
— Andy Odom (@AndyOdom7) July 14, 2014
.@RichMillington shared pretty fantastic content on using social psychology to create better communities. Home freakin' run. #MozCon
— Zac Parsons (@TheZacParsons) July 14, 2014
@RonellSmith @GregGifford @RichMillington And his automated tweets that go along with his Preso is brilliant. #nailedit #mozcon
— Damon Gochneaur (@DamonGochneaur) July 14, 2014
Loving @RichMillington's talk on communities and building them. Think of your #email list as a community and engage them as such! #mozcon
— SailMail (@SailMailApp) July 14, 2014
Really powerful presentation by @RichMillington about creating successful communities. Thanks for this! #mozcon
— Christian Schickler (@chralesch) July 14, 2014
Great presentation, too. RT @GregGifford: holy crap, @RichMillington has some really awesome looking slides... #mozcon
— Ronell Smith (@RonellSmith) July 14, 2014
So @RichMillington is kinda the truth... #mozcon
— David C. Minchala (@daveminchala) July 14, 2014
Not gonna lie. @Moz's Community Team is kind of obsessed with @RichMillington Loving his talk! #MozCon
— Megan Singley (@megansingley) July 14, 2014
Holy Crap...now @richmillington is building community by letting #mozcon "insiders" see his tweets firing off during his preso! #puregold!
— Sha Menz (@ShahMenz) July 14, 2014
Is @richmillington manipulating us into a community for his own devices or teaching us about communities? #mozcon
— Scott Sundblom (@scottas) July 14, 2014
holy crap - these slides are gorgeous... this is how you do it... *claps* for @richmillington #mozcon
— Greg Gifford (@GregGifford) July 14, 2014
Dude did @RichMillington schedule out tweets to accompany his own #mozcon preso?? Super cool.
— Emma Still (@mmstll) July 14, 2014
#MozCon @RichMillington probably has given the best talk of MozCon2014. Building Addictive Communities: https://t.co/HQc5iRpIa8
— Shalin Jain (@Shalin10) July 14, 2014
@RichMillington’s presentation is like a train—slowly building up to a barrage of great points. #MozCon
— Ryan Ricketts (@RyanRicketts) July 14, 2014
@richmillington = this guy gets all my community biz going forward. #mozcon
— Brian Provost (@brianprovost) July 14, 2014
@CurtisMorte @RichMillington Totally professional. Crazy timing. Nice work!
— Ryan Ricketts (@RyanRicketts) July 14, 2014
IMO, @RichMillington has been the standout presenter at #Mozcon thus far!
— Adam Dince (@AdamDince) July 14, 2014We benchmarked over 1500+ branded online communities and discovered a tiny number of outliers doing well followed by the majority who aren’t even close to getting the most from their communities
