Community - What is it good for?
summary
Company had a broken support forum and replaces a StackOverflow-like clone with Discourse, shifting from a vending machine community to peer-to-peer help; builds a leaderboard, badges and a super user program with private Slack access and conference funding. Claims: brand advocates drive ~150 shares and users spend 2x more time and 3x more money; runs a developer survey with a $250 Amazon prize; outcome so far is rising community answers before engineers do.
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chapters (16)
- 0:00Introduction to community
- 1:13Watermelon story analogy
- 4:49What defines a community
- 5:57Why companies need communities
- 7:20Marketing to developers through community
- 8:03Brand advocates and super users
- 11:07Community life cycle stages
- 16:48Starting a developer community
- 19:35Onboarding community members
- 23:06Why people join communities
- 25:14Increasing community participation
- 27:59Rewards and gamification
- 29:44Ozero’s community journey
- 33:17Building a developer help community
- 35:22Incentivizing participation
- 37:31Resources and closing
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