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EPISODE #71
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How to Increase Engagement in Your
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Manage Team Meetings in Activities
- Centralize meetings in Activites to pull people into Community
for agenda, notes, materials and action items
- Recurring meetings create recurring triggers to go back into
Community, building habit
Have Leadership Update Team via Blogs
- Share insights, guidance, updates in blog posts rather than
passive emails
- Use the 'Notify' feature to send an alert with link to team
- This people into community to discuss (comment) and share
Have Managers Use Status Updates
- Share insights, updates, guidance, news via frequent posts in
'Status Update' feature in the Community
- This creates regular triggers for team to log in to view their
Connections feed, building habit & momentum
Host Files in the Community
- Host files in the Community instead of attaching to emails
- This creates triggers to pull people into the Community
- Having a single source for files builds habit & momentum
Send Weekly Community Snapshots
- Send a regular email Newsletter of key postings, blogs,
activities, files, etc., with links into the Community
- The links pull people into Community to engage
- Regular 'trigger' Newsletters build habit & momentum
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