Our Community Manager Mike Collins ran a webinar for Learning Performance Institute on the subject of building online communities. The DPG Community supports all our CIPD qualifications and provides an open, collaborative and social space to support professional development.

1. Building Online
Communities
Mike Collins
Head of Community Development & Online
Learning @ DPG plc
27th March
@DPGplc @MikeCollins007
#LPIWebinar

4. How?
What?
Why?

5. How?
What?

6. Start with
WHY
http://www.ted.com/talks/simon_sinek_how_great_leaders_inspire_action.html

7. People don’t buy what you
do but why you do it
The goal is to do business with those
who believe in what you believe

8. Internal communities can…..
• Redefine how we communicate
• Connect people & create
networks
VS. • Spread knowledge
• Crowd source knowledge
• Foster innovation
• Remove hierarchies
• Destroy command & control
• Discover the quiet talent
• Raise awareness
• Engage and nurture

9. A group of people who share
a concern or a passion for
something they do and learn
how to do it better as they
interact regularly
Source : Wenger and Lave

11. “So build it
with them
and around
them”
=

12. Source – The Community Maturity Model

13. Which one?

14. The role of the
community
nurturer needs to
flex and change
depending on what
stage the
community is at
and where the
efforts are needed
most
Image Source – Feverbee

15. What would community managers
be doing at the different stages ??
Creation Growth Established
Effort
Energy
Focus
Time

16. Learning & Development
Skills for a changing
Workplace

17. If this is where learning takes place We are still in the dark (ages)
Learning is everywhere Time to spread our wings

18. Source – Bottom Line Performance

20. Early
adopters
and the
tipping
point

21. The slope of enlightenment
Helping people get it

22. Lurking is Learning
Not everyone will contribute
However as long as we are
creating the conditions
, environments and content
that people are benefiting
from and learning from then
that’s OK
It’s a gradual process

23. Look for
Opportunities to Influence
You MUST wear the
T-Shirt
Effort
Energy
Focus
Time

24. The DPG Community
A community to support your continuous professional development
www.community.dpgplc.co.uk
CIPD Certificate in Learning & Development Practice
CIPD Diploma in Learning & Development Management

25. To
You are what
you share

26. “Build it with
them
and around
them”

27. Use Data and Analytics to shape what you do
Site visits per day Page Views per day
Community Growth Active Contributors
35
30
25
20
15 My contributions
10
5 Member
0 Contributions
June
April
May
February
August
February
March
July
January
October
September
November
December

28. Back to the WHY
“We provide CIPD approved
qualifications for Learning
Professionals
What to study with us?
“We believe in providing a unique personalised
learning experience and work hard to create
conditions that support you throughout your
programme
We build capability that will help people and
businesses transform and grow in the 21st
century
Want to study with us?

29. www.learningasylum.co.uk
www.dpgplc.co.uk @MikeCollins007