I love how you're investing in their time and effort with your own time and effort!
A question for you: do you feel this is scalable? Or do you think there's a limit to how much of yourself you can continue to pour back into your communities? If so, what do you think a solution to this might be?
I'm wondering if @oli has some hot takes here, from the Forest community, or whether it's different for a community like Zig News @kristoff?
Me and Julie started with the same approach. Our early users were people we knew IRL and asked them to create content as often as they could but I agree this is not scalable. We understood that building a community from scratch wasn't going to be easy. It'll take a while before the wheels start moving by themselves without our intervention.
We understood that building a community from scratch wasn't going to be easy. It'll take a while before the wheel start moving by themselves without our intervention.
Thanks for sharing, Oli! What did you and Julie decide your approach was going to be in the end? Did you keep your efforts constant, or have you even eased off a little?
We were constant at the begining but have eased off a bit after we decided to work on long form posts because we felt that would be more meaningful. Unfortunately writing long posts involves a lot of research and takes time.
We also didn't want to continue bothering friends to contribute content. So overall the amount of engagement has dropped off.
We've recently started to think of ways to engagement people who sign up of their own volition but don't contribute.
Oh defo not scalable, enjoying it during the early days I think, I will prob then move onto something else a bit more imaginative that suits the community dynamic (whatever that might be). I think what’s happening in the nft space with tokenomics based rewards is hugely interesting, Rug Radio is a prime example of token rewards based on creator/community engagement.
I love how you're investing in their time and effort with your own time and effort!
A question for you: do you feel this is scalable? Or do you think there's a limit to how much of yourself you can continue to pour back into your communities? If so, what do you think a solution to this might be?
I'm wondering if @oli has some hot takes here, from the Forest community, or whether it's different for a community like Zig News @kristoff?
Me and Julie started with the same approach. Our early users were people we knew IRL and asked them to create content as often as they could but I agree this is not scalable. We understood that building a community from scratch wasn't going to be easy. It'll take a while before the wheels start moving by themselves without our intervention.
The wheel analogy comes up a lot in discussions about community building and engagement! It's a helpful way to think about how contributions and participation grow in a community space.
Thanks for sharing, Oli! What did you and Julie decide your approach was going to be in the end? Did you keep your efforts constant, or have you even eased off a little?
We were constant at the begining but have eased off a bit after we decided to work on long form posts because we felt that would be more meaningful. Unfortunately writing long posts involves a lot of research and takes time.
We also didn't want to continue bothering friends to contribute content. So overall the amount of engagement has dropped off.
We've recently started to think of ways to engagement people who sign up of their own volition but don't contribute.
Oh defo not scalable, enjoying it during the early days I think, I will prob then move onto something else a bit more imaginative that suits the community dynamic (whatever that might be). I think what’s happening in the nft space with tokenomics based rewards is hugely interesting, Rug Radio is a prime example of token rewards based on creator/community engagement.
I gotta do some reading on Rug Radio, thanks for sharing! I love learning about decentralized communities and media platforms.