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How to Get More Members to Participate in Your Association’s Online Community

Collaboration, Community, Engagement
By Karen McCord

April 18, 2018

When online communities are at their best, content is valuable, members are consistently engaged and everyone involved feels supported and fulfilled by the connection.

How to Make Your Online Community Your Most Valuable Member Benefit

Collaboration, Community, Engagement
By Karen McCord

April 16, 2018

The transition into the digital space has created both an opportunity and a challenge for members and associations. With in-person or other physical elements traditionally providing value to their membership packages, defining member benefits in the...

Expert Guide: How to Create an Active Online Community for Your Association

Community, Engagement, Community Manager
By Karen McCord

March 08, 2018

Since first appearing on the scene in the 1800’s, associations have been in a constant state of evolution. While first a means of networking at meetings, conferences and advocacy, the digital world provides an additional way for members to make...

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...

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