Consumer community vs Collaborative community, The Difference.
The Consumer Style
The consumer style is the kind of community that’s content-driven produced primarily coming from you, such as articles, newsletters, blogs, and videos. The plan is to produce content that will invariably pull people in, such as news, updates, events, and videos in the space. This will keep people coming back for more, and when they do come back you inspire them to leave a comment and share it across. This can be a huge headache if you don’t have enough resources to write every day.
Collaborative Style
While on the other hand, a collaborative community is where you provide a simple, easy-to-use public discussion forum or channel where people can join, participate in discussions, share their ideas, ask questions and seek help. Driven by the enthusiasts, the people themselves your role in the community will be the enabler, chief of content - curating the posts, maintaining harmony, and rewarding those who provide great content or support. However, this demands your time spending with members, sparking conversations, and hosting activities.
If you are planning to do a consumer-style community then
Launch a blog
Write newsletters
Work on newsletter subscriptions
Create a resources page on your site
Curate content and post it out
Interested in building a collaborative community?
Set-up a discussion forum
Invite first 20 - 30 close people to join them
Participate in daily discussions and group activities like AMA’s
Introduce ten new people a week, create a welcome post
Sort out channels for different topics
Grow your base, and send popular posts in newsletters.
What are the group activities you can engage your people in? Throw in your ideas.
Good stuff. Made distinction between two groups. I am glad someone pointed it out
I think a group project would be awesome. People would actually work together. Not easy to do well though. But the leaders of your tribe would show themselves really.
@witsuma @8bit Interesting idea but do you think people will be willing to commit long hours of collaboration?
we could run a test!
+1000 Propose an idea!!
If it’s interesting probably. Look at all the open-source projects out there where people commit long hours of collaboration already.
that would be interesting.
love that you're thinking about this stuff! loved chatting about it with you tonight! :P
Enjoyed talking with you, some great wisdom we shared there ha 😅
i think we tried!
Consumer law protects individuals from unfair business practices and ensures they receive accurate information about products and services. It covers areas such as warranties, advertising, and product safety, aiming to safeguard consumers' rights and promote fair competition.
Love the two buckets, but why not both?! I'll totally give you that starting with one or the other can help start a community, but even a place like Indiehackers is the best of both worlds, no? The best communities take the collaborative community and utilize it as the springboard into a consumer-style community utilizing the content the former provides (again, Indiehackers is a great example of this).
It's great to have found the collaborative IH community