Join us for a free Webinar on 11/27: "How to Increase Activity in Your Community"

[Eric Suesz]

 

Ning is home to tens of thousands of communities that serve many millions of people every day. Every one of Ning’s customers has one question in common: How can I get people more involved and active in my community? Great question!

To help answer that question, we got the guy who has a lot of smart answers: Richard Millington. The author of the new book Buzzing Communities, Richard tackles some of the most-asked questions about growing and running online communities. He’s an expert that hundreds of companies and thousands of readers rely on, either in direct consultation or as readers of his influential blog about community management, FeverBee.

Whether you’re a brand-new Ning customer, an old hand who needs some fresh tips, or a community manager who’s never even heard of Ning before but wouldn’t mind hearing from one of the top experts in the field — this webinar is for you.

The webinar will explain how to increase activity in your community:

• Why many communities struggle for activity.
• Why members participate in community.
• The principles behind sustaining highly active communities.
• Practical tips you can *immediately* implement to increase activity in your community.

You’re busy, so we’ll start on time and pack as much helpful information as we can into an hour. We’ll even stick around after that to answer as many questions as possible to help you get the most out of your time.

Sign up here.

Why attend this webinar? 

• It's totally free and geared toward Ning Creators!
• Richard approaches community management from the point of view of social science. He focuses on data that shows what actually works — not anecdotes and hunches.
• Richard is giving away an excerpt of the e-book version of Buzzing Communities to all attendees. It’s 50% of his book in handy PDF format.
• Ning is giving away 5-10 free copies of the hardcover version of the book. If you ask a question that gets picked by the chat moderator in the Q&A, we’ll send you a book.

Richard Millington is the founder of FeverBee Community Consultancy, The Pillar Summit Professional Community Management training course, and the author of The Community Management Manifesto, The Proven Path, and Buzzing Communities: How To Build Bigger, Better, And More Active Online Communities.

Over the past 12 years, Richard has helped over a hundred organizations develop successful online communities. His clients have included: The United Nations, Novartis, Oracle, EMC, The British Medical Journal, The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria, OECD, AMD, BAE Systems, Greenpeace, Autodesk and many other brands.

[Sofia Iba]

Hi Eric! I'm from Brazil and would like to attend to this webinar...but I am not quite sure what time it'll be here...do you have any idea? tks

[Eric Suesz]

Check out this time converter. Hope you can join us. 

[Clark P]

Sofia might have been talking about the time zone difference, but I think she was referring to the fact that the time of the webinar is not listed in the original post.

I've signed up and I'll be there... (and I even found out that the webinar will start at 2:30 PM PST on the sign up page.)

Thanks for putting this on!  It is critical information for new and old networks alike.

[Allison Leahy]

The start time is actually 1pm PST (end time is 2:30pm PST). Looking forward to it!

[Clark P]

You are correct!

Tue, Nov 27, 2012 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM PST

[George H. Compton IV]

I know all direct quite a few creators to this discussion thank you Eric :-) you have a great day

[Thiago Santos de Moraes]

I do not know why we no longer have the Ning blog feeds here, on Creators, but Richard just wrote an interesting article.

[Kyla Fairchild]

Unfortunately I have a previous commitment and can't attend the webinar. Will it be available for streaming afterwards?  I hate to miss out on the info.

[Eric Suesz]

It should be available for playback. I'll try to include that info here and in other places so folks can see it. 

[Ryan the CEO of CEO's]

Thanks!

[Scott Bishop]

Looking forward to the recorded podcast! I hope...

[Allison Leahy]

The recording is now available, check it out!