Topics covered in this chapter:
- How do online communities grow?
- What are the three critical growth points of an online community?
- What is the primary condition for an online community to grow?
- How to write posts about community initiatives that make users act?
- What are the most important tips and advice for writing initiatives for an online community?
- How to change the mission of an online community?
- What are the goals of an online community? How to create them?
- What is the core idea of having sub-communities in an online community?
- How to encourage users of an online community to volunteer and help grow the community?
- What is the simplest and scalable way to reward users for contribution to an online community?
- What is content moderation and what is community moderation?
- Why moderation of an online community should be done by the volunteers not by software?
- What is the rule of thumb about what should go into the help center of an online community?
- How to approach creation of rules in an online community?
- How to make a new rule that you want to add your community legit in the eyes of the users?
- What rules should be added to the help center?
- When should a community manager change old community rules?
- How to maintain the culture of welcomeness and kindness in an online community?
- How does everything get done in an online community?
- What is the first thing to do to activate the volunteers?
- What should an initiative proposal have to make users want to act?
- What does make an initiative that your proposed to be compelling for users to participate in?
- What should an initiative proposal have to be compelling for regular users of an online community?
- What should an initiative proposal have to be compelling for casual visitors of an online community?
- What should an initiative proposal have to be more compelling users of an online community?
- What are the common advice to make initiative proposal be more compelling users of an online community?
- What are the strongest activators that make people act?
- What is the common advice to make proposed initiatives in your online community more persuasive?
- What is the easiest way to connect users to one another in an online community?
- How to create opportunities for joint activities for users in an online community?
- How to build trusting relationships between users of an online community?
- What should a community manager do to find leaders among users in an online community?
- What should a community manager do to make users become volunteers?
- What is the minimum condition of the environment a community manager should create so that users want to become volunteers?
- What kind of initiatives a community manager should avoid when growing their online community?
- What is the most important thing to do right after wrapping up a successful initiative in an online community?
- What is the first thing a community manager should do if something goes wrong with an initiative in an online community?
- What is the basic advice on how a community manager can maintain trusting relationships with volunteers?
- What should a community manager do to optimize their work routines regards to volunteers?
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