Strategies Are you helping users choose new actions?

[joelr]

Marketing and leadership guru Seth Godin once wrote,

“Leaders create the conditions where people choose new actions.
The choices are voluntary. They’re made by people who see a new landscape, new opportunities and new options.
You can’t make people change. But you can create an environment where they choose to.”

Are you creating a community and environment where people are choosing new actions? To do things differently?

 

[Nomad]

I have two forums and one of them was created for helping people. I wanted to create a community where people could share information, learn from others, and get help. When I started the community, I had also dreamed of creating a crowdfunding platform where people could fund someone's projects or get funded. Since my community is about business and investment, I also thought about not just helping with information but also with money but sadly, my dream did not materialize.

 

[Shawn Gossman]

Marketing and leadership guru Seth Godin once wrote,



Are you creating a community and environment where people are choosing new actions? To do things differently?

Seth is a genius!

I agree with you on this. We should be making communities that encourage new actions through interesting discussions, leadership and engagement, and by providing the tools for our member to act.

 

[joelr]

Seth is a genius!

I agree with you on this. We should be making communities that encourage new actions through interesting discussions, leadership and engagement, and by providing the tools for our member to act.

Sometimes I wonder if forum admin communities - and this is very much an introspective reflection upon ourselves - are more about hanging out and a space to chill, or are we building learning communities to actually become better?

When I look at the universe of forum admins, most of them have been running their forums for 10 or 15 years; a lot of us are set in our ways.

 

[Shawn Gossman]

Sometimes I wonder if forum admin communities - and this is very much an introspective reflection upon ourselves - are more about hanging out and a space to chill, or are we building learning communities to actually become better?

When I look at the universe of forum admins, most of them have been running their forums for 10 or 15 years; a lot of us are set in our ways.

Interesting for sure.

Hangout communities for forum admins, haha. I'm sure a lot of it, is just that. We're a skilled bunch for the most part.