10 Rules for Increasing Community Engagement

[Brandon]

Here is a good article I found on mashable and I thought I would share it here with you guys.

 

1. Make It Easy to Participate

 

2. Be a Leader

 

3. Interact With the Community

 

4. Welcome Newbies

 

5. Identify and Nurture Power Users

 

6. Showcase and Cross Promote UGC

 

7. Reward Contributors

 

8. Be Timely About Posting UGC

 

9. Allow Profile Creation

 

10. Engage With Popular Existing Communities

 

Check out the full article to read how to execute these suggestions.

[Mike]

Good find, Brandon. If you think about it, those 10 steps should be the most basic steps we all take with our communities. If we did all those things all the time, we would not have time to search for ways to improve.