Social networking skills are an important element in your online community.
Bring your social networking skills to a new level! The more valued a member of your community feels, the more likely they are to stick around and get involved. Here are some ways you can make members of your community feel special by applying following social networking skills.
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Greet Personally Every New Member
Try to engage a newcomer to begin a
conversation, send them community
guidelines, last newsletters,
introduce them into community in
the same way as you were
welcomed.
If you had a VIP arrangement in a 5
star hotel when a specially assigned
person explains you what you can do
and where during your stay.
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Use your social networking skills by
rewarding members who contribute
great content to the community by
placing them either on a Leader Board
section or by giving them credits.
Stimulate active contribution and
engagement so that members feel
passionate about the community.
Acknowledge members contribution.
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When your community grows, it’s
all too easy to forget those that
helped it become a success.
Never forget those early members,
but at the same time, don’t forget
the newer ones, either.
You don’t need to obsess over this
– just remember things about
members and mention them every
now and again when relevant.
Remember your members
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A common mistake is to give the superstars
of your community moderator privileges.
You should be choosing people that have
the right blend of respect and maturity –
this shouldn’t be a popularity contest.
Instead, give the superstars of your
community unique titles, ranks or badges.
Make sure they are marked out as special,
and make sure the community knows why
they’ve been marked out.
Give them prestigious titles
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This could mean moderator privileges,
but I believe that if you can limit the
number of people with administrator
powers to you alone, you should.
Give members ‘responsibility’ over
specific sections of your community.
Give them tasks and objectives – put
them in charge of recruiting new
members (make sure they don’t spam).
Give them responsibility.
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To bring the social skills in your company
to a common denominator you might
consider creating formal procedures and
policies in this area.
The major idea is to design a community
management process that you can put in
writing, so you can delegate the process to
somebody else.
Another argument for creating a good
documented process is when you want to
sell your community,
Creating Formal Procedures