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.
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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.
A Reading List
What are “communities of practice”? by Dr Nicole Brown
The Basics of Community Strategy by @TheCR
Throwback Thursday – Community Strategy 101 by Shannon Abram
Why a community roadmap is important by Shannon Abram
The Peril of Top-Down Approaches To Community by Feverbee
When you’re starting a community, really you are designing one by Rosie Sherry
Your role in a community by Simon Tomes
Engagement Pyramid by Gideon Rosenblatt & Mobilisation Lab
Three Community Myths Busted – Goodbye 90-9-1 Rule By Ted McEnroe
Participation and silence by Taruna Goel
The Purpose Of Member Profiles by Feverbee
connect|share|lead by Isabel De Clercq
Lessons from the pandemic by Stephen Downes
Learning activities by Etienne Wenger
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