10 points to consider – point 3

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Posted by Lilli Allihn under Branding and Co-creation and Community and Loyalty and New media and Online Communities, 9 Jul 2012


This is the third entry in our series: 10 points to consider when setting up Insight, Innovation & Strategy Communities.


If there is one thing we’ve learned in the last four years it’s that people will talk about anything – from cleaning products to pesticide and plant sciences.

But don’t expect it to just happen! ‘Build it and they will come’ is a social media myth. Building truly effective communities requires time, effort and expertise. On any Promise community an expert will spend at least 2-3 hours a day on the site, building participation and motivation. We will use a dozen or more psychological models to build an engagement plan, consisting of daily activities that build community motivation.

If there is one thing we’ve learned in the last four years it’s that people will talk about anything – from cleaning products to pesticide and plant sciences. But don’t expect it to just happen! ’Build it and they will come’ is a social media myth. Building truly effective communities requires time, effort and expertise. On any Promise community an expert will spend at least 2-3 hours a day on the site, building participation and motivation. We will use a dozen or more psychological models to build an engagement plan, consisting of daily activities that build community motivation.

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  1. Adam Joseph Says:

    July 10th, 2012 at 12:56 am

    Interesting post. A case of “everything in moderation” – except moderation!

    On the subject of engagement, I believe Promise has an internal engagement model called Engage12?

    If so, I wondered if you could please elaborate on this?

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