The Web Strategy community unites on Facebook, and how to kick start a community

Categories: Community MarketingPosted on July 22nd, 2007

(Left: The icon for the Web Strategy Group in Facebook, you must have a Facebook account to access the group)

Just last week I created this Web Strategy Group on Facebook. It’s designed for a more group discussion than this blog. How are blogs and groups different? A blog is me standing on a podium. A group is everyone standing and talking to each other. We probally need more of the latter.

Since the groups formation last week, it’s grown to 468 members and continues to exponentialy grow. There’s a lot of folks out there that run websites, and we can all become better by working together and sharing ideas.

So what are you waiting for? Join the Web Strategy Group in Facebook and start sharing and learning

How did I kick start a community? I created it, invited certain ‘trigger’ folks, and then started to ask questions in the discussion forum. You’ll also notice that I create handsome graphics for the groups. Stay with it, continue to answer questions and be friendly. You’re the host at the party, get it flowing then learn to back off.

Oh, and add me as your friend in Facebook, I’ll add you both. Same with Twitter.

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Connie Bensen

hmmm, I rec'd an invitation & now in catching up on my blog reading I see "invited certain ‘trigger’ folks". I think you meant "certain 'typer' folks"? ;)

On the serious side, getting involved in the conversations on your groups was the best! I networked with some new people, doubled my contacts list & I took the leap to add your friends, Scoble Kawasaki, etc. Robert's Scoble's facebook page inspired me to straighten out mine. I do wish that the discussions could be grouped into topics to make them more manageable. I think you created a Facebook suggestion group? I need to find it, I have some ideas...
Keep building community Jeremiah!
Connie

jeremiah_owyang

Amazing, 100 people joined in the last 12 hours or so.

jeremiah_owyang

Justin

Jump in and take a look, this is not intended to be a "badge", there's already value being added.

Although this group is less than a week old there are 11 discussions (ok many are started by me)

But some of the topics have 14, and even 19 responses.

This is a conversation.

What Do You Do? Where Are You From? Why This Group?
14 posts by 11 people. Created on Jul 18, 2007 at 9:35 PM.

What's your methodology for understanding User Needs?
10 posts by 9 people. Created on Jul 18, 2007 at 4:44 AM.

What's your official Title? What makes you a Web Strategist?
19 posts by 17 people. Created on Jul 18, 2007 at 8:18 AM.

What comes first? determining the priority of your website
13 posts by 8 people. Created on Jul 17, 2007 at 4:53 PM.

Justin Thorp

Jeremiah, do you find many groups on Facebook are an actual source of discussion? Most that i've seen are more just badges of affiliation. People use them to brand themselves a certain way.