6. Who is this session for?
• You’re a community manager and you want
to know what Commons can do.
• You have a Drupal Commons site, and you
need to manage the content and community.
• You can also schedule a demo
acquia.com/demo-drupal-commons-3
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7. More soon
• Part 2 next week!
http://www.acquia.com/resources/webinars
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9. Kinds of communities
• Peer-led (social) product support.
• Moderators in sensitive communities.
• Public face of government agencies.
• Volunteer-led social groups for learning.
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10. Your role
• Story teller: Make content that engages
people.
• A good listener: Being on top of what people
are talking about, what they are saying.
• Analyzer: Gather data about the community,
monitor progress.
• Good communicator: Liaise between your
company or organization to members.
• Friendly host: Entertaining, educating, fun,
welcoming and safe.
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11. Your challenges
• Growing membership
• Encouraging Participation
• Keeping on top of internal messaging
• Creating natural conversation
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13. What do you use?
• Social media: Twitter, Facebook, YouTube
• Email campaign tools
• Analysis software
• A suite of fractured systems: Message board,
wiki, blog, CMS, etc etc.
• OR! - Your own community website -
Built with Commons
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15. Let’s dig in!
• Logging in
• What can members do?
• Where’s the action?
• Creating groups
• Adding content
• Moderating content
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20. Users
• Username based on your email.
• Default: Users cannot change their username
• My site: Change own username, OK!
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21. Creating accounts
• Default: Anyone can make an account
• My Site: Visitors, but administrator approval
is required
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22. Profiles
• Info
• Name, Bio, social
media links, etc
• Visibility
• Anonymous users
can’t see them
• Only logged in users
can
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23. Account
• Username (not by
default!)
• Password
• Email
• Picture
• Timezone
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25. • Defaults: For non-logged in, logged in,
moderator and admin.
• My site: I added Community Manager
Roles
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26. My “CMGR” role
• Can administer
comments
• Can all content types
• Create messages
• Add revisions to
content
• Administer all groups
permissions
• View details for all
votes
• View rate results
page
• Event: Register other
people
• View the site in
“Admin” mode”
• Edit terms in Topics
• Create and edit
paths for content
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31. Communication
• Private messages available when approved
as trusted contacts.
• My site? Allow disabling private messages.
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32. Demo: Private messages
• Reading messages
• Adding a trusted user.
• Sending a private message.
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41. Content planning
• Stay current and relevant
• Don’t plan too far ahead
• See how participants react to content
• Find your sweet spot for time of day, specific
day of week.
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42. Engaging content
• Engagement drivers include prompts that
encourage response.
• Questions,
• Fill in the blanks,
• Guessing games,
• Debates,
• Turn updates into polls.
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48. Growing
• Focus on quality not quantity.
• Stable growth
• Clear guidelines of acceptable participation
• Invite members to share content.
• Praise and highlight the contributions of
members.
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49. Managing conversation
• Don’t instantly respond, so others get a
chance to reply to each other.
• Add a “devil’s advocate” point of view to a
thread encourages others to join a debate.
• When conversations get heated, employ
“diminishing replies”.
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55. Demo: Reporting content
• Defaults:
• Comment inappropriate
• Content inappropriate
• You can also add ability to flag user abuse,
terms, groups, etc.
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