Comments on: October Community Builder Chat – Connecting On and Offline Communities #commbuild

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 15:21:00 +0000

Hi Laura-

Thanks for your questions!

I really like the first question you pose and think it could generate some
interesting conversation about goals, intention, and even execution. The
second question could invoke the “context is everything” card with people
saying “it all depends!” But, that might get conversation going as well!
There’s a question to use from Mazarine, too, so I’ll go ahead and post the
details and questions in a blog post now.

Thanks again and look forward to hearing you ideas on tomorrow’s chat!
a

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 15:18:00 +0000

In reply to Mazarine.

Thanks for the comment, Mazarine! I’ve never used Twitgrid but would love to
hear what you think about it – have you liked it for chats?

The commbuild chats are focused on community building and community
management so I’m not sure if we’ll address your first question, but we
could perhaps twist your second question to focus on engaging community
members around various kinds of media, including video or photo vs text.

Thanks for the suggestions!
Amy

By: Laura Norvig

Laura Norvig — Tue, 16 Nov 2010 21:44:00 +0000

There are a few things I’d be interested in exploring this week – they are not well-formed topics or questions, but here goes: 1) Is it important to discern/clarify what a community expects to get from their participation in the community? Or is it OK if everyone is in it for different reasons? For example, often times we are creating Communities of Practice, or Learning Communities, and the objectives are to share ideas, get questions answered, share resources. But maybe some people are more interested in just getting to know one another. Or perhaps we are creating Activist Communities, to spur offline action, and the sole objective is to mobilize people, but others want to discuss philosophy. This segues into question 2) What are Online Communities good for? Besides the obvious objectives mentioned above, what else can they accomplish?These are the things rolling around in my head this week!

By: Mazarine

Mazarine — Mon, 08 Nov 2010 22:06:00 +0000

Can’t wait to join the next chat!

For future chats, have you ever used Twitgrid? If so, what did you think of it?

One topic I would like addressed is how different organizations are doing monthly giving online. More than just an option on the donate page, how are they making it part of the forefront of their communications?

Also, maybe a topic on whether video blog posts or videos for nonprofits in general are helpful or whether people don’t click, I’d love to get lots of different opinions on this.

Thank you!

Mazarine