As all community managers know, online engagement is more than Facebook and Twitter. As the methods of online participation continue to mature, we’re seeing a return to offline community, from Meetup to Etsy, providing far deeper engagement.
What are the opportunities and how can community managers best leverage?
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• Communities engineered around interests
• Building movements - offline training
• Intentional communities around specific
locations
• The New Economy movement
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Persona
• Who is most likely to be a part of your community?
• Describe this person?
• Traits? Habits? Interests?
• How do these people feel?
WHO IS THIS PERSONA?
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The community
• What is the objective for your
community?
• Describe how they connect as a
community already
• Explore the environment,
geography, barriers and
opportunities for offline
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ACTION
What are your 3 favourite ideas?
•Design basic prototypes for each
idea
(e.g, events, conference, networking
session, maker community,)
- What are the barriers?
- How do you inspire action?
- How do you drive long-term engagement?
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“Every two days we now create as much
information as we did from the dawn of
civilisation up until 2003.”
Eric Schmidt, Executive Chairman, Google
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“People must be trained to desire, to
want new things even before the old
had been entirely consumed.
We must shape a new mentality in
America. Man’s desires must
overshadow his needs.”
PAUL MAZUR OF LEHMAN
BROTHERS
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‘INDIVIDUAL EMPOWERMENT WILL
ACCELERATE SUBSTANTIALLY ....AND IS
A CAUSE AND EFFECT
OF MOST OTHER TRENDS.
POTENTIAL FOR GREATER INDIVIDUAL
INITIATIVE
AS KEY TO SOLVING MOUNTING
GLOBAL CHALLENGES’