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How to encourage members to engage with the group?
The short answer is often, "people like to be where people are." It takes a lot of energy and pump-priming to get people used to a new community and willing to engage with it. The more they see is new,...
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How to discourage a community from growing?
I would say, continue what you are doing now.
Respond and interact with the paying clients but ignore (well, perhaps not completely ignore, but have minimal interaction with) the freeloaders. It ...
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Best practices to promote a private beta SE site
I see that your site is now in public beta, but since you asked about private beta I'll talk about both phases.
I've been involved in the private-beta phase of a few Stack Exchange sites, and what I'...
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Can I use data from public Google Docs file to seed my new site?
Here are some factors you should consider:
License: You said you didn't see a license, but the absence of a license doesn't mean it's free to use. It means you need to look harder. (Reviews are ...
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How can I introduce topic based subforums to my site without splitting up the traffic too much?
I don't get your key concern here - and I believe that there is a misconception. It doesn't matter how you will structure your site and subsites, traffic will remain as high as it is now, it could ...
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Best practices to promote a private beta SE site
If you've identified influencers among your pre-holiday user base, consider reaching out to them individually and asking them to help you out by posting questions in the forum. I do not advocate under ...
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How to reach tech talent interested in developing countries?
Now that more and more work is being done remotely, lots of global talents are "freed" from their local restrictions and work for clients worldwide on freelance platforms such as Topcoder....
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How do I gather the people to create a new Stack Exchange community?
This is an interesting question. Some people just start proposal on Area51 thinking or hoping that interested people will find the proposal and join/follow it and eventually proposal will get success ...
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Appropriate gamification badge rewards for young community?
The place to start is with the behaviors you want to encourage. You don't just want engagement (probably), you want engagement toward some goal, so build your rewards accordingly.
Badges for ...
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How to reach tech talent interested in developing countries?
There's a movement in wealthier countries like the US to use vacation time for volunteer activities. And there are multiple programs/websites that list these opportunities and work to connect people ...
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Build a "liking" feature that best fosters an active community
Many sites encourage participation using gamification, awarding things like points and virtual prizes for activity that demonstrates engagement. If you're asking which approach is best, that's hard to ...
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Rankings: How to deal with low number of reviews for user generated content website?
The key concept here is that more votes should increase your confidence of the ranking. There are a lot of rather complicated forumlas you can use but the general principle was explained by ...
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Encouraging people from Facebook buy/sell group to use free classified website
You can
Add the link in the top banner
Add the link in a pinned post
Adding a Facebook page as administrator, which shows up at the top and the right and which has the link of the webpage inside
Tell ...
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How to encourage members to engage with the group?
My friends and I created a Facebook group for programmers and alike. Its aim is to have members asking questions and others answering them.
If you want to keep your membership small on your Facebook ...
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How can I bring a community around a wiki of a fictional world?
You picked something that is very hard to build: a wiki. The to-date biggest wiki-like site we know is Wikipedia. It shows the very basic principles of a wiki:
A wiki is a site for information ...
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How should a tech company communicate on Twitter?
Most companies I've seen do well on Twitter use it up to three ways:
make announcements and provide information (we're holding a public event; here's a blog/video/podcast about a recent thing we did)
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How can automation be used to grow and manage an online community?
"Manage" and "Grow" are two separate things. People have used logic to manage user-generated content for years.
Growing a community is an interesting though, but requires knowing what it is that ...
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How can I introduce topic based subforums to my site without splitting up the traffic too much?
I don't think the method of splitting is your main issue. You can choose to either do it yourself or have the community split into different subgroups. In either case, though you still want the entire ...
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Appropriate gamification badge rewards for young community?
I think you have gotten some neat answers above and I have little to add in addition. I would however suggest implementing a badge for proper account security (i.e. registered and confirmed mail, two-...
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How can I get more users interested in the future of the site, not just in the content now?
To encourage community members to participate in meta issues, the following points can be helpful:
Convince your community members that they are the real owners of their community.As we know well, ...
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Encouraging use of a new Facebook group
You can arrange a raffle of bonuses. For example, "Place this post on your page and receive a bonus additional product features without payment". This may be another option.
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An indifferent server manager who is a close friend of the owner
You have a few options here. Some of these probably seem drastic, but you should consider what this extra work is doing to your free time. Presumably, this isn't a paid position, thus you are spending ...
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What are the best practice for starting community groups?
This set of suggestions from University of Kansas seem to be useful. I was more after evidence and research but couldn't find anything, so this advice seemed helpful.
Determine why you need or want ...
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Rankings: How to deal with low number of reviews for user generated content website?
Developing an algorithm for this will depend on understanding what the various results of a 5-star rating mean. People are not consistently rational, and their use of rating systems reflects this. ...
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Encouraging use of a new Facebook group
I have found two things that specifically help Facebook groups grow.
First is setting an example. I have found that once the community gets the idea of what content the group is for, they will start ...
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How to discourage a community from growing?
It sounds like you not only don't want the community to grow - you don't really want a "community" at all. And that's A-OK - not every GitHub project has to have the whole open source community ...
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How to crowdfund for Solar Nonprofit to garnish funds to initiate first project
Successful crowdfunding requires building a community first and getting everyone on board with the same goal and than starting the campagin. For a non profit holding events to find the community ...
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