Building Stronger Communities - Hernandez

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Building Stronger Online Communities Without Losing Your Sanity

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Building Stronger Communities Without Losing Your Sanity

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Building Stronger Online Communities Without Losing

Your Sanity

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Speakers

• Why online community is part of our work.

• Why community fits what we do.

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Speakers

• Manny Hernandez– Founder, TuDiabetes and

EsTuDiabetes– Author, Ning For Dummies– @askmanny

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Speakers

• Peggy Duvette– Exec. Director, WiserEarth– Advocates for building online

community capacity in NP sector– @wiserearth

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Speakers

• Amy Sample Ward – Global Community Development

Manager, NetSquared.org– Blogger at AmySampleWard.org– @AmyRSWard– @NetSquared

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Speakers

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

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Dashboard and Hashtag

– Dashboard to share lessons &best practices: http://bit.ly/10ntcstrongbunch

– Twitter hashtag: #10NTC, #strongbunch

– Dashboard powered by THE EXTRAORDINARIES

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Audience:

• What are you here to learn?

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Before you even get started!

Can you devote enough capacity? If not, rethink!

You need a Community Manager

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There is no auto-pilot

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There is no auto-pilot

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There is no auto-pilot

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There is no auto-pilot

http://my.socialactions.com

http://socialactions.com/changetheweb

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There is no auto-pilot

http://my.socialactions.com

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There is no auto-pilot

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There is no auto-pilot

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There is no auto-pilot

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There is no auto-pilot

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There is no auto-pilot

Change the WebConversation Series

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There is no auto-pilot

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There is no auto-pilot

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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

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WiserEarth Editors Meet Up 2009

Don’t under estimate the importance of face to face

Engage

Reward your power user

Listen

Empower your community

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There is

no

auto-pilot

• Develop and enforce Guidelines

http://www.flickr.com/photos/furnari/3484546075/

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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/

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Ask for

help

Leverage word of mouth

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Growing your community

Integrating pushing out and cultivating inward

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Growing your community

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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

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Audience:

• Challenges you have faced building your community?

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Remember!

• Dashboard: http://bit.ly/10ntcstrongbunch

• Twitter hashtag: #10NTC, #strongbunch

• Follow us:– @askmanny– @wiserearth– @AmyRSWard– @CDEgger

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