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Create a
Community of Regulars
By
Heather Duggan
A community is
a set of people you keep running into over and over again. One
way to think of loyal community members who contribute
consistently is as "regulars."
Without
regulars, there is no community. Drawing in and retaining those
regulars is the most important job of any community owner. And
it is a job that becomes more difficult as the Net continues to
grow and to fragment.
David R.
Woolley, president of
Thinkofit (a virtual community
consulting firm specializing in community software), summarizes
the difficulty in building a community:
"I think it is
a lot harder than it used to be, mainly because there's so much
competition for attention. It used to be, back in the 1980s,
that 'if you build it, they will come.' ... Early on there
weren't very many venues for online discussion, so if you opened
one up, people who liked that kind of thing would flock to it.
Now barriers to starting one of these things ... Well, there
aren't any barriers. You just go to Yahoo! or Excite and start
up a 'community' in five minutes. Actually, getting attention
for it is much harder, because there's so much out there."
The Stages of
Membership
Community
membership is not an event but a process, as potential members
progress from being a stranger to a passer-by to a lurker to a
participant to a regular. Only a small percentage of people make
the conversion from one step to the next, so it's important to
hold on to as many as possible at each stage. Here are some
ideas for doing so:
Conversion:
From Stranger to Passer-By
Your key task:
Make potential members aware of your community.
If you're
starting a new community, begin by building content that will
attract members to your Web site — and then publicize that
content.
Some other
things you can do to attract members to your community include:
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Writing a regular newsletter highlighting your site and
community.
- Staging events and advertising them
on the major search engines.
- Hosting regular chats and
publicizing them in advance.
If you're
hosting an existing community, the most successful marketing
tool is your own members. To make the most of that potential,
try:
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Encouraging members to bring in interesting participants.
- Making the invitation and acceptance
process as simple as possible.
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Conversion:
From Passer-By to Lurker
Your key task:
Move the passer-by from your Web site into the community space.
(But be realistic in your expectations — only a very small
percentage of the people who are interested in your site will
visit the community areas.)
Here are some
pointers you can follow to increase your chances of converting a
Web page visitor into a community entrant:
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Highlight community content on your Web page.
- Create "small steps" for encouraging
participation — such as posting regular survey questions on
your site and letting participants answer via e-mail or by
using an online form.
- Make the sign-on process as simple
as possible.
- Provide some reward to those who
make the effort.
Conversion:
From Lurker to Participant
Your key task:
Transform a regular reader into a participant.
You can
encourage this transformation by making the community as
welcoming as possible. Here are some pointers:
- Send
an e-mail message to new members within 24 hours of their
membership. Welcome them, give them pointers on getting
started, suggest topics where they might participate, and tell
them about any interesting upcoming events.
- Make the discussion as permeable as
possible. This means creating regular breaks in the
discussion, through summaries or open questions, where
newcomers might find a space for themselves.
- Provide a place where newcomers can
experiment with the software.
- Always greet
newcomers, and encourage other community members to welcome
them.
Conversion:
From Participant to Regular
Your key task:
Encourage intermittent participants to check in — and
participate — regularly.
While the
community owner can largely manage the first three steps, this
final step is wholly dependent on the entire community. People
return to places where they find a group of people to talk to.
If your community is not such a place, you will not be able to
retain members. No effort on your part, no matter how great,
will create a regular participant where there is no community.
This means that
creating a community involves, in large part, knowing when and
how to let go and allow the community to take ownership. This is
an art form (much like the art of raising a child), but there
are some general rules to follow:
- Just
as you leave spaces in the conversation, leave spaces in the
ownership of the community. After a certain point, efficiency
runs contrary to community. Find things you don't
do well, and let your members know that you need help in those
areas. And then expand the areas of your inefficiency (while
carefully maintaining the community at the same time).
- Make certain your community software
facilitates changes in membership. Can you hand over some (but
not all) of the hosting tools? Can you allow members to take
over certain content maintenance tasks?
- Facilitate members' ability to find
people to talk to by including personal profiles, highlighting
member interests, and adding databases and searchable
discussions.
According
to Denham Grey, president of
Grey
Matter (a knowledge
consultancy), "It's no good being high up on a search engine.
You really have to capture people's attention and commitment
inside the community. That's what it's all about. You can bribe
them in, but you don't keep them that way."
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