The 70-20-10 rule (70% of people learn best through experience, 20% through people and 10% through formal education) is common sense now, but it wasn’t always. Bob Eichinger put together the original study that supported the idea. 70-20-10 has far-reaching implications even to this day; business and formal education are beginning to recognize the importance […]
Why Most Solutions To Community Problems Fail
When trying to solve community problems, it’s important to ask the right questions. If your community website is causing problems and making participation harder, don’t just ask how to fix it, take the time to examine how things got to that point in the first place. How has the community run the website in the […]
How Do I Improve Online Engagement?
Many people struggle with online engagement issues, despite having great conversation ready to spark with the right people. If your brand is suffering due to a lack of engagement online, there is hope to spruce things up and create powerful engagement that delivers results your way. Focus, plan, and execute the perfect strategy for your […]
Sense of Community Requires A Shared Identity, Everything Else Requires A Practical Need
In order to build a strong sense of community, your community usually has to be organized around an issue or interest that is st the core of your members’ identities. Sometimes you can improve your community by tweaking your topic so that it’s more central to their identities or worldviews, but in other cases there […]
Excellence Online: Association Website Best Practices
Your association’s website is a crucial tool for everything from new member recruitment to keeping your current members informed. A badly-designed website can push interested people away. Make sure your website’s branding, design and style align with the overall branding of your group. Always check your website carefully for both grammatical problems with the copy […]
Read This
Feverbee recommends that people interested in learning about online communities would greatly benefit by reading an academic study called “The Effect of Group Size and Time on the Formation of Online Communities: Evidence From Reddit” by Elliot Panek and three others from the University of Alabama. The study of 30 Reddit communities over 6 years […]
All The Easy Community Ideas Are Taken
The idea of this very short article; or prose is that you are not going to get rich from building an idea that already exists. The ideas for communities of authors, doctors, investors, and even the first community of its kind are all taken. It is suggested that if you want to do something new, […]
Focus On The Few Areas Members Really Care About
A person trying to improve an online community surveyed more than 250 members to see what was important to the community. From this detailed survey he derived 19 top priorities. The problem was, that to make all 19 priorities a reality there would need to be an incredibly complex road map and plan. This person […]
Free Speech in Online Communities
Online communities are a great place for people to share their voice and speak with others who are like minded with them. Not everyone feels comfortable being on online communities. However, if you are in an online community, you can usually make your setting to anonymous. This helps people feel a little bit more comfortable […]
Testing The Community Concept
There are a lot of people out there that are trying to launch their online community. It is something that is very common in the modern world today and almost everyone seems to be posting a blog. However, when you post a blog, the work does not stop there. If you want a community to […]