Association Online Community Advice & Tips

The Future of Online Communities: Curated Content

Community, Engagement, Community Manager
By Karen McCord

January 10, 2017

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...

Expert Interview Series: Breezio's Karen McCord on Building Secure Online Communities

Community, Engagement
By Karen McCord

January 04, 2017

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...

Breezio Partners With PLOS and Ars Biotechnica to Introduce Community-Scale Peer Review in Scientific Publication

Community peer review, BioTreks, Scholarly publishing, PLOS
By Laura Dress

November 28, 2016

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Rockville MD - November 28, 2016 - In the opening ceremony of the annual iGEM (International Genetically Engineered Machine) Scientific Jamboree, PLOS (Public Library of Science) announced their partnership with Breezio and...

Can Online Communities Change the Future of Peer Review?

Community peer review, BioTreks, Scholarly publishing
By Laura Dress

October 28, 2016

Over a year ago at iGEM 2015 I connected with the founder of BioTreks and showed him Breezio. In it, he saw the potential to make a monumental impact on how high school synthetic biology research could be taught, particularly with regard to...

Online Collaboration is the Feature Your Social Community Might be Missing

Community, Community Manager
By Laura Dress

October 27, 2016

I desire the good life, but I don’t want an easy ride. Easy is boring.

The Latest Features to the Breezio Online Community Platform

Product release notes
By Laura Dress

October 26, 2016

In the words of the late-great David Bowie this year, Breezio has made some pretty exciting ‘cha cha cha changes’ to the platform that we’re excited to highlight here!

5 Important Online Community Management Principles: Taught by Geese

Community, Engagement
By Chris Frew

October 20, 2016

Every Fall our skies are filled with the honking sounds of thousands of migrating Geese traveling away from the frigid Canadian winter on their epic journey to the warm Southern United States. As soon as they take off they form the iconic flying...

How to Increase Member Engagement By Turning Experts Into Fearless Beginners

Community, Engagement
By Hana Yen

June 23, 2016

Beginner’s Mind What do all beginners have in common aside from the theme that they are novices? As intuitive as it may seem, beginners are often owners of beginner’s mind, a concept in Zen Buddhism called shoshin. Shoshin refers to an attitude of...

Four Steps to Increase Online Community Collaboration

Community, Engagement
By Hana Yen

June 06, 2016

"The opposite of autonomy is control. And since they sit at different poles of the behavioral compass, they point us toward different destinations. Control leads to compliance, autonomy leads to engagement.” –Daniel Pink in Drive

Leading Online Community Platform Provider Announces Client Driven Updates

Product release notes
By Laura Dress

May 26, 2016

In this month alone, Breezio has logged more than 156 hours of platform progress--50% more than company expectation. Breezio is making big changes with you at the forefront of their innovation.