- What the fluff is your community about? Define the vision.
- Get people involved, get people participating.
- Provide incentives for engagement. Take the INLEO threadcast going on right now... We can be incentivised for participating here....
- Lastly as your community grows .. start empowering community leaders. Identify the most active and engaged members of your community and empower them to take on leadership roles.
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empowering and generating a sense of belonging in the leaders and members of a community is an important part of maintaining them, because when members do not want their community, they simply end up going elsewhere.
Exactly the same thing if the community leaders treat the members like crap or ignore them, they will be gone!
If the vision of the community is vivid to its members then empowerment would kick in because users would lay their skills vulnerable for them to be given a role. Now the role is given, such administrator would exercise the duties.
The incentivization of users for participating in the community is another crucial thing to do. We have to remember that digital ownership and citizenship come with data cost for internet access as well as good gadgets with improved features. Incentivizing community participation would real help participants cover part of their costs and encourage more participation. Your mention of INLEO example is very apt.