Do you do live events for your community?

[Shawn Gossman]

Do you or have you considered live events for your community?

After the pandemic, live meetings got fairly popular, and doing these meetings got pretty easy too. It's still easy.

It could be a great way to connect closer to your community, build a better relationship with your members, and even create a networking establishment between members.

I feel like every niche could do a live event about their topic in some way or another.

What do you all think?

 

[ClicketyKat]

At FP, we have done community chats with members, but it seems that mostly just staff and ex-staff join in. It's a shame because members could really get a feel for the staff's personalities.

 

[Shawn Gossman]

At FP, we have done community chats with members, but it seems that mostly just staff and ex-staff join in. It's a shame because members could really get a feel for the staff's personalities.

You all should try a zoom session.

You'd be shocked how many people tend to show up. Let them show their face and talk or just hit the chat room. Doing something like that once a month might actually be very beneficial to the engagement on FP.

 

[ClicketyKat]

You all should try a zoom session.

You'd be shocked how many people tend to show up. Let them show their face and talk or just hit the chat room. Doing something like that once a month might actually be very beneficial to the engagement on FP.

Do you think that having staff show their faces could cause members to come watch?

 

[Uncrowned]

Do you think that having staff show their faces could cause members to come watch?

There is always a plus to adding a face to the people building a community, but I'm not sure if it will get many more members involved.

 

[dave]

That's an interesting suggestion, is there a maximum number of participants you can invite with a free zoom account?

 

[~ True Legend ~]

You all should try a zoom session.

You'd be shocked how many people tend to show up. Let them show their face and talk or just hit the chat room. Doing something like that once a month might actually be very beneficial to the engagement on FP.

I'd recommend discord over zoom. So many online communities have that these days.
Obviously though, there's the risk of that diverting forum activity onto zoom so igy.

 

[Cedric]

I'd recommend discord over zoom. So many online communities have that these days.
Obviously though, there's the risk of that diverting forum activity onto zoom so igy.

Zoom is more professional though. If you want to elevate your community to a business, Zoom is the way to go. Nothing saying you should, but if you have ambitions to take it to the next level, a business perspective is a good start.

 

[~ True Legend ~]

Zoom is more professional though. If you want to elevate your community to a business, Zoom is the way to go. Nothing saying you should, but if you have ambitions to take it to the next level, a business perspective is a good start.

It depends on the kind of community you want to host for really.

 

[Cedric]

It depends on the kind of community you want to host for really.

Certainly, not all communities should be taken to a business perspective.

 

[ClicketyKat]

It depends on the kind of community you want to host for really.

Absolutely! If most of your members are on Discord, having them come over to Zoom doesn't make any sense at all. And their friends aren't going to be very interested either because they're probably Discord fans as well.

Google Meets is similar to Zoom and it's integrated with Google Drive which is really nice.

 

[Shawn Gossman]

Zoom is more professional though. If you want to elevate your community to a business, Zoom is the way to go. Nothing saying you should, but if you have ambitions to take it to the next level, a business perspective is a good start.

I think Zoom would be good for a community like yours and mine for sure. We can network our members and better discuss community management topics in a live environment like that.

But a general forum or something "non-professional niche" might be better with a discord channel or chat of sorts.