First time here? Welcome!

[dun3buggi3]

But when I (finally) discovered this site I realised that there is a lot more to community management than I had previously thought.

Hey @nawthor,

Welcome to FeverBee Experts.

I can completely relate to this. But this community is super friendly and helpful. So if you have any questions, feel free to ask.

So if someone could give me an explanation on what the various types listed are, I would really appreciate it.

I have this description provided by @HAWK. This was pretty helpful for me.

I have tried searching elsewhere as well, which has granted some insight, but not enough for me to figure out what type of community eve.community is.

I’d say eve.community falls under B2C.

[dun3buggi3]

Currently we have close to 300k accounts, 1.6M topics and close to 100 million posts

Hello & welcome @bartvb!
I love how you’ve build a team of 50+ volunteers. I’d love to take a look a the community, if you can share it publicly or via DM.

Also hope to give something back by way of sharing experiences

15+ years of running this community, I’m sure you’d have a lot to share with the Experts community.

[dun3buggi3]

Hello everyone!

Hello & welcome @tatiana.bonneau!

I am the Marketing Director of AMAfeed.com.

Just checked out a couple of AMA’s on AMAfeed. Looks pretty interesting.

We are quite new (only been around for 4 months!) so it’s all very much a mayhem still as any startup would know but all fun and a great experience

Absolutely!
I also have a question about the platform- apart from aggregating AMA’s, can we start AMA’s natively on the website?

[tatiana.bonneau]

Hello! Yes of course, some recent AMAs
Kristen Hall-Geisler on EV racing
Josh Steimle on how to write for Forbes
Rae Paoletta from Gizmodo
Bobby Mason with advice for startups
Steve de Mamiel on The Mongrel Method

(If I get those links right am gonna give myself a tap on the back!)

[xmaskuli]

Hey all!
Former Community Manager that supported the U.S. Government, but is now working for a collaboration platform vendor (Jive Software). I’ve benefited from materials posted by FeverBee and others in the past, so figured I would join the community to give back where I can.

My goal is to help others here and continue to sharpen my approach when consulting with prospects and existing customers about the value of community collaboration.

[richard_millington]

Hi @xmaskuli - welcome to FeverBee!

Really interesting times at Jive I imagine. I’m sure you’ve checked out our other discussion about that.

What are some of the best examples of collaboration at the moment? I’m curious to see what’s new in that space.

[xmaskuli]

Hi @richard_millington,

Oh yeah… Between the acquisition and sales of external community business, it’s definitely interesting times.
Well, in my previous role as a Community Manager I had actually reached out to you about some good best practices for managing an internal community (about 5-6 years ago). I greatly appreciated the advise as it was a very unique community supporting all 17 U.S. Intelligence Agencies called i-Space (Then A-Space).

It was a very interesting challenge trying to support collaboration among agencies where information sharing can be antithetical to their business model. Still we saw a lot of great strides (most of which I can talk about!) and now in my role at Jive, I’ve gotten a chance to work with NASA, DOJ, DOD, and a bunch of other agencies to help share best practices and really identify the value creation for them.

[richard_millington]

That’s incredible work, congratulations!

Is there any chance I can use it as a case study in the book? It seems unlikely, but would be a great one to have.

[xmaskuli]

It’s possible, but it would probably have to go through an ungodly approval process that could strip away anything really impactful. It’s always been the issue when trying to put anything to paper for a case study… I love supporting the government, but talking about their successes are always tricky.

I can generalize and talk about best practices and difficulties that organizations encounter (Whether cultural issues, outdated tracking and rewarding mechanisms. etc…), but being able to call out the qualitative success stories (and even quantitative metrics) to back it up, continues to drag me down.

[tatiana.bonneau]

Hello! Yes, you can:) (sorry, been crazy busy, just got around to check what’s up here:)) Feel free to pm me for more info!

[chris]

Hi Bees
I am about to start a community for professional health and safety experts world wide. I want a platform that looks professional, has capacity for a large library. And is both free to view but has a paid to access portion where there will be valuable resources/rewards.

What’s the next step?

Best bee haviour

[richard_millington]

Hey @chris,

Welcome to the community. You’re at an exciting stage of the lifecycle.

A lot of questions, but I guess the biggest ones are what’s your budget, level of tech skill, and how big is the team here?

Have you checked out the community platform tool?

[ljbeasley]

I have a need to bring a diverse group of people together–people who are loosely affiliated in community but need to share some common knowledge and on occasion communicate with one another.