Creating Value With Communities

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How does The Huffington Post create value with community? During Community Conference in Denmark, Tim McDonald gave a keynote presentation covering 3 components of how they look at community through the stories of two of their community members.

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Creating Value With Communities

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What isCommunity?

We’ve been asking the wrong question. It should be…

Who isCommunity?

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A

CROWDIs

NOT a Community

It’s people who come and go

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Community:

People who are passionate about you and emotionally attached to

your brand

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When your community is exclusiveEveryone on this side is excited

to be in

And everyone on this side,wants to get IN

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@MurphTheSurf350

Meet Murph Member of our community who:

• Provides feedback• Gives insights on new features• Offers assistance to other community

members

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Murph is a pundit.

Pundits can:• Use hyperlinnks• Format text• Have their comments

featured at top

Pundits earn this privilege by being responsible and helpful community members.

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WIIFT?

What’s in it forTHEM?

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STOPBeing a bulldozer

The world doesn’t care what you say about your brand.

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STARTBecoming the magnet

Attract people to you and get them to stick around.

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@YourTash

Meet Tash Member of our community who:

• Promotes our segments• Watches and comments• Introduces new community members

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And when she introduces new community members…

She keeps introducing new community members!

Most importantly, these community members do exactly what Tash does: promote, introduce and participate

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Tash sent us feedback

A personal response, to let her know I read her feedback, lead to all the connections and support.

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Experiment

Always be experimentingStart small by:

• Testing with little or no budget

• Testing with no add’l resources

• Getting buy-in from at least one other stake-holder

• Measuring results

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• Long term growth

• Scalable Community

WIIFY?What’s in it for you?

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• Innovation

• Loyalty

WIIFY?What’s in it for you?

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• Community is not the crowd (make it exclusive)

• Be the magnet, Not the bulldozer

• Experiment (always)

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Creating Value With Communities

Contact: Tim McDonaldtimamcdonald@gmail.com

Google.com/+timmcdonald1

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