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Best platforms for building online communities in 2022?


 

Hi All,

A lot has changed about online communities since the pandemic began.

Does anyone here belong to an online community that uses a platform that they would recommend???
What makes the platform good, and what types of communities is it for?

I will compile a list and share it back out with this group.


Thank you!

Lucas Cioffi


 

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Hi Lucas

Discord
Free for most of use
Very easy to use (channel creation, rules, possibility to begin with a specific channel,?
Possibility to restrict channels to subgroup
It¡¯s a community of people share common interests (well that¡¯s the definition of community, what do you want to know exactely ??


Christine Koehler
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Le 7 f¨¦vr. 2022 ¨¤ 20:18, Lucas Cioffi <lucas@...> a ¨¦crit?:

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Hi All,

A lot has changed about online communities since the pandemic began.

Does anyone here belong to an online community that uses a platform that they would recommend???
What makes the platform good, and what types of communities is it for?

I will compile a list and share it back out with this group.


Thank you!

Lucas Cioffi


 

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Hi Lucas!
I¡¯ll answer right away with Welo (welo.spaces). Keith McCandless is working with the developers (and I am as well) to embed Liberating Structures in the tool and enhance the experience. As an example, 25/10 Crowdsourcing works like a breeze in there.
So far I had very good experiences with groups in Welo, and would recommend for other Facilitators.

Cheers,


Fernando Murray
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On Feb 7, 2022, at 11:18 AM, Lucas Cioffi <lucas@...> wrote:

Hi All,

A lot has changed about online communities since the pandemic began.

Does anyone here belong to an online community that uses a platform that they would recommend???
What makes the platform good, and what types of communities is it for?

I will compile a list and share it back out with this group.


Thank you!

Lucas Cioffi



 

Hi Lucas - great question.? I think it really depends on the context.? There are so many tools out there and it really depends on what kind of community someone wants to build.? The kind of tool that works best will vary greatly depending on the context of the community.? For example, something like might work best for a short term community like a conference, something like might work best for a casual community where people want to share updates and articles, and something like works best for learning communities where people want to have more in depth conversations around specific topics.

A lot of thinking needs to go into the intention of the community and the desired interaction.? Since I'm biased towards Sutra, I'll just share that we designed Sutra to support communities where there's an emphasis on the quality of connection between participants.? For example, you can have a Facebook group with lots of posting, but very little intimacy.? Do people really know each other on a personal level?? That kind of connection usually happens through Zoom calls.? So a lot of our design methodology revolves around communities and learning experiences where there are regular Zoom calls and there's a desire to have an online space to continue the conversation and connection in between calls.? I wrote a lengthy blog post around what we call "transformational" experience design in this sense just recently:?

Hopefully, that's helpful.