If you’ve noticed things are a bit quiet recently, it’s because I’m currently working solely on a new book.
It’s a book centered on the most important problem we face today, driving value (and demonstrating that value).
The book’s thesis is simple, but critical. We need to stop trying to maximize engagement and start driving the kind of activity that is actually valuable to organization. Maximizing engagement is a race to the bottom. Maximizing value leads to more support and success for you and your career.
This value lies in getting members to advocate, lead, learn, innovate, educate, and support one another.
If you’ve taken our Strategic Community Management course, you will be familiar with some of the book’s principles already.
I’m looking for a couple of allies (some of you) to help me develop the book. This is people willing to research and test ideas, read proofs, and give feedback on my blind spots. You get early access to all the book’s material, your name featured on the book’s jacket, and to help shape the book from start to finish. You will also get access to a private forum here too.
Hey everyone, you should hopefully now all have access to the new category
for the book. If you don’t see it let me know and I’ll tinker with settings
a little.
I’m still getting up to speed on Discourse (don’t laugh).
While I’m new to the community world, I come with experience from the learning/training world and a passion for knowledge sharing. Here are a few items I’ve worked on in the past:
Hi @richard_millington, Happy to be involved as well. I started Breastcancer.org’s community 16 years ago! Would love to learn more about what your doing!
Just added you both. If you do a refresh on the site you should see a new ALLIES category appearing. Click the category and all the information is in there .
I would love to be involved, especially since I’m banging this drum in our market as well.
Additionally, before I made community into a professional gig, I was a full-time copyeditor at a nonfiction publishing company, so I can also employ a secondary skillset if desired.
Super interested in this topic and spend lots of time discussing it with my Recruitment and Marketing team. I’d be happy to help support, as well as learn from, this project!
