How to Increase Community Online
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The document outlines strategies for increasing online community engagement within the London digital sector, focusing on tools, applications, and community interactions. It discusses recruitment for product development teams and the importance of organizing meetups based on interests. Additionally, it emphasizes the need for collaboration on web projects and explores potential funding and sponsorship models for community features.
How to Increase Community Online
- 1. How to Increase Community Online Nathan O’Hanlon - @nathanlon 3rd Thursday monthly MC: Nathan O’Hanlon Twitter: #londonweb www.londonweb.org
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- 4. Be a founder of our new product development team in London! Seeking: • Software Engineers • Product Managers • UX Designers • QA Engineers bazaarvoice.com / londondev 10 billion page views / month and growing fast
- 5. Community at London Web • Inspired by Richard Millington’s “Buzzing Communities” book • What is the best community you have in London? • Is your best community offline, online or both?
- 6. Interactions • Recent Mailing List Closures - Symfony • GitHub, Stack Overflow, Quora – is this the replacement? • What makes people come back – emails? • Is online: – Better – More convenient – Less interactive
- 7. Twitter / Facebook / LinkedIn profiles • Many links are available from Meetup.com for each member • Should we associate these with a QR code on the night? • How do we avoid that overwhelming feeling?
- 8. Applications to Connect Us 1 • What applications can be written to help our meetup members connect? • Dashboard of contacts from the month? • Lunch MeetupOrganising – Location based • Hash Tag Polls? • Sharing Content? How?
- 9. Applications to Connect Us 2 • Location aware Lunch Checkins on Foursquare - http://www.londonwebmeetup.org/lunch • Websites we like – Delicious feed, pinterest • Blog Roll • Twitter list, LinkedIn Group, Facebook Group • Commenting against videos on Vimeo • Groupme chat – maybe localised • Highlight and Sonar registration
- 10. Applications to Connect Us • Grouping members based on interests • Other meetups we are attending – Lanyrd feed, Plancast, • Skills Directory – http://www.londonwebmeetup.org/skills • Web Quality bodies • Certifications directory • Localised group meetups connected with Hangouts
- 11. Applications to Connect Us 3 • Transport Shares • Group buying at Conferences • Discount to group members on events • What else??
- 12. The Meetups • The social time seems like it’s working • Content seems to draw people there • Need to be smarter about meeting the right people on the night • Divide the group up into areas of: – Marketing – Design – Development • Will there be people coming to meet friends that they first met at the meetup?
- 13. Crowd Funding • How do we fund the features we need? • What about sponsors? • Will people pay to use these tools? • Do we just get volunteers: – With a set amount of time to deliver? – With appropriate skill sets? – Enough time to work on the idea
- 14. Collaborating on web projects • What is the best platform for this? – Github? • Do you need to meet to collaborate? – Skype – Facetime – Hangouts • Skills: http://www.londonwebmeetup.org/skills
- 15. These Virtual Meetings • Monthly • Finding speakers • Preparing ideas for: – Collaboration – App Development – Community projects – Meetup venues – Member profiling
- 16. Questions
Editor's Notes
- #9: Location aware Lunch Checkins on Foursquare - http://www.londonwebmeetup.org/lunchWebsites we like – Delicious feedBlog RollTwitter list, LinkedIn Group, Facebook GroupCommenting against videos on VimeoGroupme chat – maybe localisedHighlight and Sonar registrationGrouping members based on interestsOther meetups we are attending – Lanyrd feed, Plancast, Skills Directory – http://www.londonwebmeetup.org/skillsWeb Quality bodiesCertifications directoryLocalised group meetups connected with HangoutsTransport SharesGroup buying at ConferencesDiscount to group members on events
- #10: Location aware Lunch Checkins on Foursquare - http://www.londonwebmeetup.org/lunchWebsites we like – Delicious feedBlog RollTwitter list, LinkedIn Group, Facebook GroupCommenting against videos on VimeoGroupme chat – maybe localisedHighlight and Sonar registrationGrouping members based on interestsOther meetups we are attending – Lanyrd feed, Plancast, Skills Directory – http://www.londonwebmeetup.org/skillsWeb Quality bodiesCertifications directoryLocalised group meetups connected with HangoutsTransport SharesGroup buying at ConferencesDiscount to group members on events
- #11: Location aware Lunch Checkins on Foursquare - http://www.londonwebmeetup.org/lunchWebsites we like – Delicious feedBlog RollTwitter list, LinkedIn Group, Facebook GroupCommenting against videos on VimeoGroupme chat – maybe localisedHighlight and Sonar registrationGrouping members based on interestsOther meetups we are attending – Lanyrd feed, Plancast, Skills Directory – http://www.londonwebmeetup.org/skillsWeb Quality bodiesCertifications directoryLocalised group meetups connected with HangoutsTransport SharesGroup buying at ConferencesDiscount to group members on events
- #12: Location aware Lunch Checkins on Foursquare - http://www.londonwebmeetup.org/lunchWebsites we like – Delicious feedBlog RollTwitter list, LinkedIn Group, Facebook GroupCommenting against videos on VimeoGroupme chat – maybe localisedHighlight and Sonar registrationGrouping members based on interestsOther meetups we are attending – Lanyrd feed, Plancast, Skills Directory – http://www.londonwebmeetup.org/skillsWeb Quality bodiesCertifications directoryLocalised group meetups connected with HangoutsTransport SharesGroup buying at ConferencesDiscount to group members on events