In this month's webinar we interview Rachel Happe from the Community Roundtable about her work and an interesting concept called the Community Maturity Model. You can listen to a replay of the webinar (free) at http://intronetworks.com/webinars.aspx
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The Community Maturity Model - introNetworks Webinar Series with Rachel Happe
1. introNetworks Webinar Series
”The Community Maturity Model”
Conversation with
Rachel Happe
Thursday, October 15th
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3. Driving Success - 8
Competencies to
Socializing Your
Organization
Rachel Happe
4. Who I am
Rachel Happe
The Community Roundtable
@rhappe and @TheCR
Background: PRTM, IDe, Bitpass, IDC, Mzinga
Skills: Analysis, Management, Operational Strategy,
Facilitation, Communication, Community Strategy,
Coaching
Domain Expertise: Internet trends, Social Media,
Communities, Market Analysis, New Product
Development
Interests: People, Cooking, Sailing, Hiking, Maine
14. What To Do
• Acknowledge and articulate who you
are as a organization
– The Good, The Bad, & The Ugly
• Align how you talk about your company
and products with what customers think
about you
• Think of customers as marketing
partners
• Determine how socially-enabled your
constituents are
• Identify the drivers that will help you
20. What You Need To Do
• Practice conversational and facilitated
communications internally
• Take small steps toward transparency
• Experience self-organizing
environments – developer communities,
India, Wikipedia, user groups
• War game radically different
communications cultures – using games
like Bafa Bafa
25. What You Need To Do
• Listen/Ask/Measure how
communications and decisions are
made
• Translate between groups
• Be as responsive to various
constituents in their own modality
• Encourage and reward change
• Set expectations clearly
31. What You Need To Do
• Build a mission that attracts passionate
fans
• Offer rewards and recognition to
encourage ‘good’ behaviors
• Ride the wave of community interest
rather than trying to start waves
• Don’t ignore problems – address
immediately even if you don’t have the
answer
37. What You Need To Do
• Attract attention
• Create a schedule of events that
have a cadence
• Develop content in different
modalities – text, images, video;
synchronous & asynchronous
• Focus on value – build content that
will be contextual and relevant to your
audience
42. What You Need To Do
• Define expected culture through
rules. Be Firm
• Articulate and plan for the risks but
remember too, risks make things fun
& worthwhile
• Define the constituent groups for
whom you are responsible and how –
both legally and ethically – and what
will harm them
45. What You Need To Do
• Understand where tools can help - not
everything requires or has a tool that
can help
• Evaluate which investments have
higher payoff – those that streamline
repetitive or expensive tasks
• Understand tool externalities – tools
don’t work in a vacuum. How do they
work with existing processes and
people?
49. What You Need To Do
• Know where you want to go- measurement is not all
that useful if you don’t know what success looks like
• Understand data influencers – if you don’t know how
to change a measurement or its cost, it is also not all
that useful
• Keep it simple – the easier it is for everyone to
understand, the better. Three clear metrics are better
than 20.
• Develop accounting standards – what are your
priorities and values and how well does your budget
reflect them?
• Don’t forget your common sense. Measurement is
one guide post to good decision making, not the sole
factor.
Resource: http://www.thesocialorganization.com/social-media-metrics.html
51. Thank You
@rhappe & @TheCR
rachel@community-roundtable.com
www.community-roundtable.com
52. Special Guest
Author Jono Bacon
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Editor's Notes
In the past you had the mic – you got to control the conversation – and there were a limited number of channels you needed to reach to get your message out. Influencers were easy to identify because they controlled other microphones.
Today, the people who once stood behind the microphone are now just one more member of the conversation – on more equal footing with everyone else. Now you – and the previous influencers – are just a few voices out of millions.
India was instructive to me because I started to understand how this seemingly chaotic state was organized. There, not only are there a lot of people but traffic includes people, animals, bullock carts, scooters, autorickshaws, cars, trucks, etc. – all pouring through the streets with seemingly no rules. It is a highly complex system. Somehow, they self-organize. What I learned for that:
One person has no hope of trying to ‘manage’ it so you need everyone to do a little bit – you need everyone to see and fill vacuums and gaps
Understanding cultural queues (three quick honks) will help you avoid accidents
Cows are sacred and unpredictable – accept that and go around
There is no safety net – insurance is unheard of – if you screw up, it is going to hurt. Accept that, deal with it, and move on.
Suspend disbelief
Above all – PR & Communications needs to be in lock step with customer’s experiences with your product or service – and set expectations lower so that customers are delighted.
Give them a reason to come and socialize
Have regularly scheduled events – cadence is important
Be Multi-modal: Text, images, video; Asynchronous, Synchronous
Make it valuable (contextual/relevant)
What are the risks?
What is our responsibility to protect? And whom?
Tools – used correctly – give us leverage that we don’t have on our own.
Measurement is done for many reasons:
To compare
To win
To understand
To fit correctly
To repeat
Account, reconcile, and balance our intentions with reality