Hosting a Community

Summary

This post focuses on the steps involved in designing, onboarding, and hosting a community of practice or learning community. It emphasizes the importance of starting with a community strategy and design, especially for remote and distributed communities. The write-up includes a mindmap that outlines various scenarios and strategies for effective community management.

Hosting a community

“The strength of the individual is the community. The strength of the community is the individual.” —  @GeorgeSiosi

After reflecting on communities’ engagement and starting a community, designing, onboarding, and hosting a community come to mind. Those activities are the next natural steps of any community instigator and host.

Where does everything start with designing, onboarding, and hosting a community of practice or a learning community?

Especially when communities go remote and distributed. Any community professional would say: start first with community strategy and design, right?

Instead of writing a longish new post, here is below a mindmap I produced. Check out below. You can dive deep in each scenario

There are the three scenarios I shared in the post on starting’ a community – enriched with some thoughts on how a community could be designed, onboarded, hosted and supported.