Communication
Community Platform Glossary: The Terms That Actually Matter
A plain-English community platform glossary covering membership, engagement, event, communication, money and software terms as membership organizations really use them.
Category: Community Building
The craft of growing and sustaining an engaged community.
Community Building
How to Run a Community Meeting People Will Come Back To
How to run a community meeting: the agenda, the three roles in the room, closing a decision properly, handling the…
Community Building
Alumni Chapter Engagement: Why Chapters Go Quiet and How to Keep Them Running
Why alumni chapters go dormant, whether to run them centrally or locally, how to define the chapter leader role, and…
Community Building
Running an Organization When Nobody Is Paid
A volunteer run organization fails in ways a staffed one does not, and almost none of them are about commitment.…
Community Building
10 Signs You Need a Community Engagement Platform Built for Discovery, Not Algorithms
A modern community engagement platform must support more than communication and events. It must help people discover the organizations and…
Community Building
7 Ways Community Engagement ROI Proves Your Platform Is Either Working or Failing
Community engagement ROI is one of the hardest metrics for organizations to define, track, and justify. This article explains why…
Community Building
Community Engagement Strategies That Fit the Group You Actually Have
Community engagement strategies chosen by the state your group is in, plus a one-year plan a volunteer-led organization can finish.
Community Building
What Community Discovery Really Means And Why Every Organization Needs It
Most people do not fail to engage with communities because they are uninterested. They fail to engage because they never…
Community Building
Why Community Engagement Fails, and How to Tell Which Problem You Have
Seven structural reasons community engagement fails, and a six-question diagnostic to find which one is yours.
Community Building
Designing an Engagement System in 5 Effective Steps That Guides People
Learn to design an effective engagement system that guides members clearly to participate, contribute, and grow in your community.