22. WiserEarth Editors Meet Up 2009 “ WiserEarth has played, and will continue to play, many roles in enabling change as our ever-evolving community connects and collaborates.” “ WiserEarth gives us the power to work collectively & avoid reinventing the wheel. I hope to increase interconnections among good people.” Know your community
23. WiserEarth Editors Meet Up 2009 Don’t under estimate the importance of face to face Engage Reward your power user Listen Empower your community
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Start internally: foster your own leaders so that they can foster the community; it’s too big a task for you to do alone
Welcome members – create sense of trust, build relationships, treat people as individuals with value
Learn and adapt – listen to your community and build from what they ask for (not what you think they want)
Be ready for having your community grow legs and starting to having its own life in many places…
Offline outreach: Creating opportunities for people to collaborate in person and find each other, without context of the network/group creates interest in continued connections and reinforces role and value of group