Hi and Welcome Simon,
You’ve picked the right time, particularly as this forum is sponsored by Involve, and they are looking to employ a few people (bells ring for me when I read an org like Involve want a “senior media relations person”. By which they mean dealing with the old main-stream media that no one trusts any more.
Its always struck me as strange that with all these engagement people, there’s no community manager for this forum. That said, James has been running the Democracy network for a couple of years now, the aim being to do the aggregation of media from 900 UK orgs. The idea is good. Time for a re-design and refresh I think.
So Simon. Your questions. How and where should try and coalesce a community? Are there any formats we should explore, like newsletter-based blogging? Is this forum the right place? Hey! Its always easier, when co-creating, to begin with a tool which has already attracted a small community with some hope, rather than reinventing a wheel, So let’s have a go and see where the design takes us.
I’ll start a thread called (as you’ve suggested) Community Communication. Although I’m considering “Inter-community communication” as forums tend to be the place to bring conversations between people in organisational silos together.
Please vote.
- Community Communications
- Inter Community Communications