Posts Tagged ‘Community Engagement’

Is your association looking for ways to engage your membership and entice new members in 2016? Your website may be full of useful content, but where are your members going to interact with one another? If your members are leaving your website and interacting on social media sites or other discussion forums you may not be meeting their needs. In order to engage your members, you may need to consider incorporating an interactive community with your website. Community gives your…

Back in 2006 I became friends with a young woman who met her husband through online gaming. At the time, as a young, non- gamer I thought their relationship was a strange and rare phenomenon. Sure, this young woman and I had become friends but I also suspected that she was a mega nerd, like BEYOND normal nerd status. My suspicions were further heightened by the fact that she was borderline antisocial and also exhibited a couple of quirky and…

We lived on farms, then we lived in cities, and now we're going to live on the internet! If the last 20 years of pop culture has taught us anything, it's that at some point in the not-too-distant future, we're all going to be "plugged-in" to machines, and live somewhere in the ether of The Internet; face-to-face interaction will be as dated as communicating via smoke signal. Ok, so maybe we're not quite there yet, but as an association, it's…