Community leaders deserve better: An open letter about community software
If you’re like us, you probably have some unread red-dot notifications in your Slack sidebar. A few are work-related, a few are from social groups or communities, and a few are ghost-town workspaces you keep forgetting to remove.
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I really liked this — there's a wave of need for this — content is so easily accessible but the quality is always in question. As more and more of it gets put in our faces, the reader's job becomes batting away the bad content (rather than sourcing it from a magazine or specific blog). I'm trying to find ways to combat this. Does any one have any good solutions?
tl;dr
Li Jin coined the word Passion Economy and after running a community herself she and David Sherry wrote this open letter to help community leaders.
A community platform should have a feature set that accomplishes two key goals:
(1) to make the community leader's life easier, and
(2) to improve member experience.
Here are 10 features that we wish we had in a unified platform, based on real experience running and leading communities:
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In my honest opinions these are some of the great features but to begin with we don't need a lot of features. In the initial days we should focus on building meaningful relationships and to provide value to people in the community.
What do you all think?
I agree with this. It is 100% where social media fails miserably.
Absolutely. I've spoken to multiple people building communities and the first question they ask is what tool to use for building communities which doesn't make sense. The first question should be why and what and then you go from there.
and also platform/tool matters when you are thinking of scaling a community. If you are just starting a simple Telegram group might suffice.