Q3 Community Lifecycle

First Three Steps

Assemble Your Team

Capture Your Knowledge

Organize and Curate

  • Community Team

  • Recognize top SME Contributors

  • Employee Volunteers

  • Recognize & Reward Super Contributors

  • Consider Ideation if not already in use; collect ideas – not just issues.
  • Consider communities in other languages - plan

Last Three Steps

Put Knowledge to Work

Measure Impact

Evaluate and Evolve Strategy

  • Consider API calls to surface community content on company website
  • % solved

  • Voted / Survey effectiveness

  • Observed correlations

  • Growing depth or breadth?