Archive for the ‘Community building’ Category

In a world where a million things are competing for your audience’s attention what will make them pay attention to you? Loyalty.

Loyalty, built brick by brick by providing value to communities and their members for free, is your money in the bank.

When it’s time for your non-profit to ask for donations people will give if you’ve been giving to them by adding value to conversations they’re having online and off. When people need a product or service that you and others provide, they will choose you over your competitor if you’ve been providing more great, free content.

Is providing great content hard? No. It’s not because, with so much great stuff out there, you don’t have to create anything new, you just have to sift through the piles to find the gems your audience cares about. The value is in the sifting. And if you want to really take it to the next level throw in some analysis of what you sift and people will love and share your content.

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I attended Social Media Breakfast Ottawa 9 this morning featuring Mark Kuznicki. Founder of TransitCamp and ChangeCamp Toronto, Mark “engages creative communities in co-creative solution building through face-to-face events” that empower people to become “citizen superheroes”.  TransitCamp and ChangeCamp brought Torontonians together to talk about solutions to community challenges. TransitCamp was about how to make Toronto transit work better for citizens. ChangeCamp Toronto was about re-imagining government and citizenship in the age of participation.  Mark said a key goal of such events is to create content (i.e. the conversations) and use social media to spread it. Mark talked about his own journey to the work he does and then took questions.

Enjoy the conversation.

p.s. ChangeCamp Ottawa is happening Saturday, May 16th so attend in person or via the web!

For the presentation click the Play button below. For the Q&A session click here.