Building Stronger Communities - Hernandez

Building Stronger Online Communities Without Losing Your Sanity

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Why online community is part of our work.
Why community fits what we do.

Speakers
Manny Hernandez
Founder, TuDiabetes and EsTuDiabetes
Author, Ning For Dummies
@askmanny

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Peggy Duvette
Exec. Director, WiserEarth
Advocates for building online community capacity in NP sector
@wiserearth

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Amy Sample Ward
Global Community Development Manager, NetSquared .org
Blogger at AmySampleWard.org
@AmyRSWard
@NetSquared

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Christine Egger
Co-Director, Social Actions
@SocialActions
@CDEgger

Dashboard and Hashtag
Dashboard to share lessons &best practices: http://bit.ly/10ntcstrongbunch
Twitter hashtag: #10NTC , # strongbunch
Dashboard powered by THE EXTRAORDINARIES

Audience:
What are you here to learn?

Before you even get started! Can you devote enough capacity? If not, rethink! You need a Community Manager

There is no auto-pilot

There is no auto-pilot http://my.socialactions.com http://socialactions.com/changetheweb

There is no auto-pilot http://my.socialactions.com

There is no auto-pilot Change the Web Conversation Series

WiserEarth Editors Meet Up 2009 “ WiserEarth has played, and will continue to play, many roles in enabling change as our ever-evolving community connects and collaborates.” “ WiserEarth gives us the power to work collectively & avoid reinventing the wheel. I hope to increase interconnections among good people.” Know your community

WiserEarth Editors Meet Up 2009 Don’t under estimate the importance of face to face Engage Reward your power user Listen Empower your community

Develop and enforce Guidelines
http://www.flickr.com/photos/furnari/3484546075/

Growing your community
Your community has long legs!
TuDiabetes (on Ning)
Twitter: @tudiabetes
Facebook Page
RSS Syndication has no limit...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ak4suna/4099079932/

Ask for help Leverage word of mouth

Growing your community Integrating pushing out and cultivating inward

Growing your community

Lessons learned
Know your community's ecology and who to give attention to.
Set up modest goals at first for your community building
Participation online is different: reward your power users
Listen to your community

Audience:
Challenges you have faced building your community?

Remember!
Dashboard: http://bit.ly/10ntcstrongbunch
Twitter hashtag: #10NTC , #strongbunch
Follow us:
@askmanny
@wiserearth
@AmyRSWard
@CDEgger

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Building Stronger Communities - Hernandez

by Manny Hernandez on Feb 23, 2010

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