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| [[https://www.feverbee.com/types-of-community-growth/|Types of community growth]]\\ Replenishment, expansion and organic growth, and when each is most appropriate. | [[https://www.feverbee.com/types-of-community-growth/|Types of community growth]]\\ Replenishment, expansion and organic growth, and when each is most appropriate. | ||
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| + | [[https://www.feverbee.com/the-online-community-lifecycle/|The online community lifecycle]]\\ Using the lifecycle you can identify exactly where you are now and where you need to go next. | ||
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| - | [[https://www.feverbee.com/autonomy/|Growth by autonomy]]\\ Members feel autonomous when they feel understood and accepted, when they are given options, when they can openly express how they feel, and when they are encouraged and supported to act in line with their beliefs. We chose to join and participate in social groups that support our autonomy. | + | [[https://www.feverbee.com/participate-2/|A model for getting people to join and participate in your community]]\\ This model explains why members don't participate in communities and how to get them more engaged. |
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| - | [[https://www.feverbee.com/participate-2/|A model for getting people to join and participate in your community]]\\ This model explains why members aren’t participating in communities and how to get them more engaged. | + | |
| [[https://www.feverbee.com/feverbee-sweet-spot-framework-and-how-it-works/|The Sweet Spot framework]]\\ The key to community growth is hitting the sweet spot that combines what members need, what brands want, and what communities offer. | [[https://www.feverbee.com/feverbee-sweet-spot-framework-and-how-it-works/|The Sweet Spot framework]]\\ The key to community growth is hitting the sweet spot that combines what members need, what brands want, and what communities offer. | ||
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| - | [[https://www.feverbee.com/average-number-of-active-members/|Small wins to increase growth]] | + | [[https://www.feverbee.com/alternative-to-bribes/|Why people aren't joining your community]]\\ Don’t bribe people to join your community. No freebies for registering. Instead decide what the problem is and change your approach. Your audience isn't joining your community because either: they don’t know your community exists, or they know your community exists, but they don't feel like joining. |
| - | [[https://www.feverbee.com/alternative-to-bribes/|Why people aren't joining your community]] | + | [[https://www.feverbee.com/community-growth-hacking/|Community growth hacking]]\\ When you launch a community, you face achicken and the egg problem. Nobody wants to join a community until there is activity there. The easiest way to get a community off the ground is simply to build up a large number of existing contacts before you launch the community. |
| - | [[https://www.feverbee.com/community-growth-hacking/|Community growth hacking]] | + | [[https://www.feverbee.com/basic-tactics-to-grow-your-online-community-without-any-promotion/|Some basic non-promotional growth tactics]]\\ A list of growth tactics suggested by existing community members. |
| - | [[https://www.feverbee.com/basic-tactics-to-grow-your-online-community-without-any-promotion/|Some basic non-promotional growth tactics]] | + | [[https://www.feverbee.com/the-right-and-wrong-way-to-grow-a-forum/|The right and wrong way to grow a community]]\\ Rich examines what is going wrong in his favourite example of a terrible online community. |
| + | [[https://www.feverbee.com/theme-discussions-activities-growth/|Themes, discussions, activities, growth]]\\ A model to bring in new members by defining a theme and creating a collaborative paper for distribution. | ||
| - | [[https://www.feverbee.com/the-right-and-wrong-way-to-grow-a-forum/|The right and wrong way to grow a community]] | ||
| - | [[https://www.feverbee.com/theme-discussions-activities-growth/|Themes, discussions, activities, growth]] | + | [[https://www.feverbee.com/autonomy/|Growth by autonomy]]\\ Members feel autonomous when they feel understood and accepted, when they are given options, when they can openly express how they feel, and when they are encouraged and supported to act in line with their beliefs. You can leverage autonomy to grow your community. |
| - | [[https://www.feverbee.com/growing-an-online-community-attracting-clusters/|Cluster growth]] | + | [[https://www.feverbee.com/growing-an-online-community-attracting-clusters/|Cluster growth]]\\ Don’t randomly approach people, target specific clusters of people you want to join and then create specific content to appeal to those clusters. |
| - | [[https://www.feverbee.com/use-the-right-symbols-to-get-the-right-membership/| Using the right symbols to attract the right members]] | + | [[https://www.feverbee.com/use-the-right-symbols-to-get-the-right-membership/| Using the right symbols to attract the right members]]\\ To reach any specific audience you need to flood your community with symbols that appeal to the group you’re trying to reach. Embed these symbols in community. |
| - | [[https://www.feverbee.com/the-best-source-of-growth-for-established-communities/|Growth in established communities]] | + | [[https://www.feverbee.com/the-best-source-of-growth-for-established-communities/|Growth in established communities]]\\ Identify specifically where members are dropping out. Once you identify, specifically, where people are dropping out you can design a precise intervention to change this. |
| - | [[https://www.feverbee.com/why-growth-slows-in-mature-online-communities/|Growth in mature communities]] | + | [[https://www.feverbee.com/why-growth-slows-in-mature-online-communities/|Growth in mature communities]]\\ You can't directly invite people to join forever, you need to encourage growth from existing members. You need to penetrate through the existing connections of your target audience. |
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| - | [[http://kommein.com/5-tips-for-organic-community-growth//|5 tips for organic growth]]\\ The best online communities achieve growth organically. That is, the community grows naturally without much pressure or prodding from the community management. That isn’t to say there isn’t much guidance, but definitely the community isn’t forced or made to feel as if they have to participate. | + | [[https://bitlab.cas.msu.edu/papers/wikiprojects.pdf|Exploring critical growth in WikiProjects]]\\ Fledgling online communities often hope to achieve critical mass so that the community becomes sustainable. At what point does a community achieve critical mass and how does the community know this? Furthermore, online communities become sustainable when they achieve a mass of what? We explore this question by analysing growth in a large number of online communities on Wikipedia. |