Online Community Tips

Get online community management tips to help your association, membership organization, or scientific society increase member engagement.

Building Community for Associations the Lean Startup Way

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Karen McCord Sep 18, 2018 11:31:30 AM
Building Community for Associations the Lean Startup Way

Need a community platform that allows you to get started quickly, then adapt as your community grows? Experience Breezio


In his bestselling book, The Lean Startup, Eric Ries makes the case for  getting new products into customers’ hands faster. He advocates for a Minimum Viable Product (MVP) approach, starting lean instead of investing time and money perfecting a product that may end up being of little or no interest to customers. Ries’s methodology starts with launching the MVP and using it to learn what the market actually wants, then continually iterating based on that learned intelligence. This “build-measure-learn” feedback loop saves both time and money, enabling lean startups to get a product to market quickly and customers to help shape the solution that meets their actual needs, rather than needs founders think they have.

3 Features To Increase Member Engagement at Your Association

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Karen McCord May 17, 2018 6:30:00 AM
3 Features To Increase Member Engagement at Your Association

Generating ongoing member engagement for your association is about more than just giving your members a good experience. With increased engagement, you can boost renewal rates and attract new members. Since members primarily join associations to connect with others in their industry, engaged members are likely getting more of the value they are seeking from their membership. Happier members means a more financially stable association — in short, everyone wins.

Improve. Release. Improve. Repeat.

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Laura Dress Apr 25, 2018 11:56:57 AM
Improve. Release. Improve. Repeat.

It’s been a bit since we’ve talked about the new features the Breezio community platform has released. In the past few months, we’ve focused on platform updates that our customers have requested. Don’t get me wrong, there are also plenty of new fun features in the pipeline (and I’ll give a hint of that a bit later)! For now, I want to talk about why this year, we’ve focused on improvements that help community managers.