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Discover how online communities can elevate professional collaboration and engagement among users of your products and services. By utilizing forums, private groups, and educational resources like webinars and articles, businesses can help professionals tackle long-term challenges and foster knowledge exchange. Similarly, Shop Talk community models assist users in troubleshooting transactional issues through discussion forums and training resources. Learn how various industries are leveraging these communities to keep audiences informed and connected, ultimately driving success and innovation.
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Online Communities: 3 Engagement Models • Professional Collaboration • Goal: Helping professionals solve longer-term issues that involve your products/services. • Methods: Forums, private groups, Participation in studies/polls; articles; educational webinars, resource centers. • Typical community hosts: Firms whose customers/partners/employees need to share information to thrive (e.g. business services, consulting, medical, legal, manufacturing, complex software). • Shop Talk • Goal: Helping prospective and current customers, partners, developers troubleshoot transactional problems with your products/services. • Methods: Discussion forums, documentation, training videos, crowd-sourced ideation, project enhancement requests. • Typical community hosts: Product companies and their distribution partners whose users help each other resolve technical questions. • Information Dissemination • Goal: Keeping audiences informed on your products/services and how to use them. • Methods: Company-written blogs with comments; using Twitter and other social media tools to share information. • Typical community hosts: Regulated industries, topics where engagement is likely to be controlled. Consumer goods where knowledge-exchange is unlikely to occur.