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[NCDD-DISCUSSION] Best platforms for building online communities in 2022?


 

Thank you very much to everyone for sharing their?answers.? I shared this question on the NCDD discussion list and the Facilitators for Covid Response list.?

The only community tools that were recommended were the following:
  • Mighty Networks
  • Sutra
  • Welo
  • Discord
  • Email + Zoom
These helpful lists of tools were shared by Tim Bonnemann:
It is surprising to me that with so many community tools out there, so few community tools were recommended.

Lucas Cioffi


 

Here is a spreadsheet of video tools and some platform tools that I have been working to explore. There are many angles to the question of facilitation and what it means to have a collaborative meeting.

I have yet to find a good one that covers my basic needs and end up gluing several together.

I am about to try a Startup weekend with Miro and Discord... We will see how that goes...

You might find this organizer dashboard interesting as a concept -?

Here is the list of tools:?



Please comment if you learn something or if you see something missing.?



On Thu, Feb 10, 2022 at 2:11 PM Lucas Cioffi <lucas@...> wrote:
Thank you very much to everyone for sharing their?answers.? I shared this question on the NCDD discussion list and the Facilitators for Covid Response list.?

The only community tools that were recommended were the following:
  • Mighty Networks
  • Sutra
  • Welo
  • Discord
  • Email + Zoom
These helpful lists of tools were shared by Tim Bonnemann:
It is surprising to me that with so many community tools out there, so few community tools were recommended.

Lucas Cioffi



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Hi Lucas, one another awesome tool is??Created by people from Teachable.?
I am part of one community running in Circle, and it¡¯s very effective.
I can mention Facebook Groups as well, the one we use for Virtual Facilitation so far.?

Cheers,

Fernando Murray
??? ?Boosting Human Connection through Virtual Facilitation.

? Connect with a larger Community at?
? Follow us on Instagram:?


On Feb 10, 2022, at 2:10 PM, Lucas Cioffi <lucas@...> wrote:

Thank you very much to everyone for sharing their?answers.? I shared this question on the NCDD discussion list and the Facilitators for Covid Response list.?

The only community tools that were recommended were the following:
  • Mighty Networks
  • Sutra
  • Welo
  • Discord
  • Email + Zoom
These helpful lists of tools were shared by Tim Bonnemann:
It is surprising to me that with so many community tools out there, so few community tools were recommended.

Lucas Cioffi




 

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+1 for circle. We¡¯re just about to use it to stand up all our communities. No experience yet, but it won our ¡°bake off¡± against the other tools!

On Feb 10, 2022, at 5:41 PM, Fernando Murray Loureiro via <fernandomurray@...> wrote:

Hi Lucas, one another awesome tool is??Created by people from Teachable.?
I am part of one community running in Circle, and it¡¯s very effective.
I can mention Facebook Groups as well, the one we use for Virtual Facilitation so far.?

Cheers,

Fernando Murray
??? ?Boosting Human Connection through Virtual Facilitation.

? Connect with a larger Community at?
? Follow us on Instagram:?


On Feb 10, 2022, at 2:10 PM, Lucas Cioffi <lucas@...> wrote:

Thank you very much to everyone for sharing their?answers.? I shared this question on the NCDD discussion list and the Facilitators for Covid Response list.?

The only community tools that were recommended were the following:
  • Mighty Networks
  • Sutra
  • Welo
  • Discord
  • Email + Zoom
These helpful lists of tools were shared by Tim Bonnemann:
It is surprising to me that with so many community tools out there, so few community tools were recommended.

Lucas Cioffi





 

Agree with Peter and Fernando

We assessed the following tools for a new community:
Ning (yes, it still exists!)
MightNetworks
Circle
LearningStone
HowSpace
Mobilize.io

Taking account of pricing and our other selection criteria, our shortlist was Ning and Circle. We asked a small group of community members to engage with both platforms in a test site, and then selected Circle.

It has a lot of features that make it easy to create and manage engagement. The posts can be fun and quirky (it's super easy to add images and gifs). Searching is simple. And there are some useful analytical capabilities.



Michael

Michael Randel

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W:?(202) 656-3796????? ? ? ?? C:?(202) 365-4238

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On Thu, Feb 10, 2022 at 5:45 PM peter via <peter=[email protected]> wrote:
+1 for circle. We¡¯re just about to use it to stand up all our communities. No experience yet, but it won our ¡°bake off¡± against the other tools!

On Feb 10, 2022, at 5:41 PM, Fernando Murray Loureiro via <fernandomurray@...> wrote:

Hi Lucas, one another awesome tool is??Created by people from Teachable.?
I am part of one community running in Circle, and it¡¯s very effective.
I can mention Facebook Groups as well, the one we use for Virtual Facilitation so far.?

Cheers,

Fernando Murray
??? ?Boosting Human Connection through Virtual Facilitation.

? Connect with a larger Community at?
? Follow us on Instagram:?


On Feb 10, 2022, at 2:10 PM, Lucas Cioffi <lucas@...> wrote:

Thank you very much to everyone for sharing their?answers.? I shared this question on the NCDD discussion list and the Facilitators for Covid Response list.?

The only community tools that were recommended were the following:
  • Mighty Networks
  • Sutra
  • Welo
  • Discord
  • Email + Zoom
These helpful lists of tools were shared by Tim Bonnemann:
It is surprising to me that with so many community tools out there, so few community tools were recommended.

Lucas Cioffi





 

You're all welcome to join our Circle community. Free, open, focused on innovation and questions related to business meetings:?


Lucas, if you'd like to host a QiQo event exploring?your current dev focus there, that would be a great event for that community.

On Fri, Feb 11, 2022 at 10:50 AM Michael Randel <Michael@...> wrote:
Agree with Peter and Fernando

We assessed the following tools for a new community:
Ning (yes, it still exists!)
MightNetworks
Circle
LearningStone
HowSpace
Mobilize.io

Taking account of pricing and our other selection criteria, our shortlist was Ning and Circle. We asked a small group of community members to engage with both platforms in a test site, and then selected Circle.

It has a lot of features that make it easy to create and manage engagement. The posts can be fun and quirky (it's super easy to add images and gifs). Searching is simple. And there are some useful analytical capabilities.



Michael

Michael Randel

** Based in Washington D.C, supporting organizations globally! **
W:?(202) 656-3796????? ? ? ?? C:?(202) 365-4238

michael@...





On Thu, Feb 10, 2022 at 5:45 PM peter via <peter=[email protected]> wrote:
+1 for circle. We¡¯re just about to use it to stand up all our communities. No experience yet, but it won our ¡°bake off¡± against the other tools!

On Feb 10, 2022, at 5:41 PM, Fernando Murray Loureiro via <fernandomurray@...> wrote:

Hi Lucas, one another awesome tool is??Created by people from Teachable.?
I am part of one community running in Circle, and it¡¯s very effective.
I can mention Facebook Groups as well, the one we use for Virtual Facilitation so far.?

Cheers,

Fernando Murray
??? ?Boosting Human Connection through Virtual Facilitation.

? Connect with a larger Community at?
? Follow us on Instagram:?


On Feb 10, 2022, at 2:10 PM, Lucas Cioffi <lucas@...> wrote:

Thank you very much to everyone for sharing their?answers.? I shared this question on the NCDD discussion list and the Facilitators for Covid Response list.?

The only community tools that were recommended were the following:
  • Mighty Networks
  • Sutra
  • Welo
  • Discord
  • Email + Zoom
These helpful lists of tools were shared by Tim Bonnemann:
It is surprising to me that with so many community tools out there, so few community tools were recommended.

Lucas Cioffi






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