Legal Research

Community Engagement

This is written for other types of enterprises but, to me, the rules seems pretty applicable to libraries:

10 Rules for Increasing Community Engagement

Here are 10 tips for increasing user engagement that work for news community web sites, but can apply to all types of online user-engagement communities.

1. Make It Easy to Participate

2. Be a Leader

3. Interact With the Community

4. Welcome Newbies

5. Identify and Nurture Power Users

6. Showcase and Cross Promote UGC

7. Reward Contributors

8. Be Timely About Posting UGC

9. Allow Profile Creation

10. Engage With Popular Existing Communities

Follow the link to learn more. Libraries have got to get really good a engaging their communities to thrive.

Stephen

Full post as published by Stephen's Lighthouse on December 17, 2009 (boomark / email).