Upcoming Webinar: The Community Lifecycle

Upcoming Webinar: The Community Lifecycle

Over the past few decades The Community Lifecycle has been developed by academics, refined by practitioners, and perfected by FeverBee. The Lifecycle defines online community development in four phases: inception, establishment, maturity, and mitosis.

Using the Lifecycle as a guide, you can identify exactly what phase your community is in now and anticipate how it will change over time. If you attend this webinar, at the end of one hour you will be more informed about communities than most community professionals you meet. Join us August 29th to find out what the community lifecycle is and how to effectively guide your community through every stage.

Thursday, August 29 at 9am PDT

(find your local time here)

Key Takeaways

  • The four stages of the Online Community Lifecycle
  • Identify milestones for each stage
  • Lifecycle-based time management to help optimize growth, moderation, and relationships
  • Tasks you can perform to take you from one stage to the next
  • Evolve your role within your community as the community itself evolves

About the Presenter

Richard Millington is the founder of FeverBee, a community consultancy, and author of the new book Buzzing Communities. He is also a frequent guest blogger here on Cultivating Community and our go-to presenter for the Community Management Talks series. His straightforward, results-oriented style is admired by many in the field, and it's just one of the reasons we've enlisted him to share community management best practices to help Ning Creators (and anyone else) refine their approach and cultivate thriving communities. Richard's next free talk is Thursday, August 29 at 9am PDT. We hope you can make it!

 A recording of this webinar will be available on the Ning Community Management Talks channel, and you can follow the conversation on Twitter using the hashtag #NingTalk. 

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