Online Community Tips

There are both success and failure stories from membership organizations that have launched online communities over the past several years. If you’re still trying to figure out this puzzle for your organization and are concerned about how to do so, here are two critical items to keep in mind: community manager and content, because Community Manager + Curated Content = Engagement

Karen is CEO of a startup SaaS company called Breezio that specializes in building online communities.

We recently asked Karen for her insight on how cloud computing encourages collaboration and how a strong and secure IT infrastructure is necessary for success. Here’s what she had to say:

Society Day at the 2016 STM’s Annual Conference was dedicated to exploring the trends that are reshaping societies strategies over the coming few years within publishing, membership, technology, innovation, and growth. I was honored to be a member of the Panel on Emerging Collaborative Technology and Tools Moving Research Forward which was moderated by: Daniya Tamendarova, Director, Strategic Business Development, APA Journals. My co-panelists included: Susan Cato, Director, Digital Strategy & Member Services, American Society of Plant Biologist, Deric Corlew, Vice President of Business Development, Research Square, and Josh Freeman, Founding General Manager, Trellis and Senior Adviser, Multi-Media Strategies, AAAS.

Amazing things happen when you fill a conference center with 600 innovators, entrepreneurs and community builders. The community has the opportunity to share experiences, learn and support one another. The power of many can always accomplish more than that of a few and this year’s Entrepreneur Expo hosted by TEDCO proved no different.

Thanks for your interest in the Webinar “Improving the Effectiveness of Team Science”. The recording can be found at https://breezio.com/webinars.html.

I would like to take this opportunity to introduce myself. My name is Karen McCord and I am thrilled to join Breezio as CEO at such an exciting time. I’ve spent my career thus far fostering science teams and bring to Breezio a passion to make science collaboration a successful endeavor. A short bio is below.