Building a Community

Building a community is easy at first. You have a few friends that join to support you, and they tell a few of their friends. But growing your community while making it interesting and helpful, so that people return daily, is a whole other ballgame! Here are some tips that I found useful: • Build communities that people actually want to return to, participate in, learn from, and eventually identify with • Make your community a place where people can learn, connect, collaborate, share opportunities, and become known • Start with conversations, not necessarily content • Build recurring rituals • Celebrate members regularly • Create opportunities for members to help each other. • Partner with existing communities • Give people a reason to return every day There are many other ways to help your community prosper. I'll share some more in a future post, but the above tips should really help you to kickstart your community! Best wishes to you... What have you found helpful in building your community?