Online Community Building Strategy: Good Advice From Nancy White
July 29th, 2009Building an online community is in my opinion the best investment you can make toward guaranteeing yourself greater influence, authority and opportunity for business. But how easy is it to build a thriving online community?
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As a matter of fact, the questions that zip through my mind everytime I think of how I can improve my own skills at community building, are so many that I always end up with more unanswered doubts than solutions.
- How do you nurture engagement inside your community?
- How do you keep the community going?
- How do you get people to socialize inside a new community?
To get some answers to these critical questions, I have briefly taken hostage online facilitation and community-building expert Nancy White during her last Rome visit, a few days ago.Nancy is a truly experienced person in this area and she always speaks out of the ongoing in-depth experience she has with real communities, both online and in real life. Her answers are non-technical, pragmatical, and if you are not into community building yet, quite enlightening.
In this two-part video interview on community-building Nancy White responds first to a group of questions focusing on community engagement, socialization and trust.
In part 2, next week, she will address technology choice and the idiosyncrasies of groups vs networks interactions.
If you are getting into community-building seriously, here’s Nancy’s good advice:
