10 Rules For Online Community Success
As social is an emerging trend, many have put down their soapboxes to talk about online communities. Consequently, there is some good (and lots of just OK) advice “out there” on building online customer communities — yielding a great deal of information to sort through and parse. While theory is interesting, there is a practical side to us all – especially when endeavoring to act. And, human nature craves rules; rules to be examined, adapted and applied. Having built award-winning online communities for 20 years, I am boiling my journey down to a simple set of 10 implementable actions for online community best practice in hopes that it accelerates your community successes.
2) No one-night stands: cultivate relationships…
3) Observe, enculturate then act: learn the rules of engagement before engaging…
4) Be responsive and brave: you/your company started the relationship, accountability now exists …
5) Be trustworthy and aware: know what is being discussed and leverage the information for customer benefit….
6) No tools for the sake of tools: design and launch with purpose and intention…
7) No digital litter: if it ain’t working, take it down!
8) Value thought leadership over marketing: lead with content not sales…
9) Return what you learn: give assets back to the community in the form of summaries and responses…
10) Match plans with metrics: you are what you measure so choose your performance measures wisely.
Vanessa DiMauro is the CEO of Leader Networks, a research and strategy consulting company that helps large organizations succeed in social business and B2B online community building. DiMauro is a popular speaker, researcher and author. With over 15 years experience in social media leadership positions, she has founded and run leading online communities for CXO Systems, Cambridge Technology Partners and IDG, and has developed winning social strategies for influential companies such as Cisco, Cognizant, EMC, Palladium Group and SAP.
Vanessa DiMauro is an Executive-In-Residence at Babson College’s Olin School of Management, and holds both a B.A. and M.A. from Boston College. She serves on the Advisory Board at WEGO Health and blogs at http://blog.leadernetworks.com.
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