Q4 Community Lifecycle

First Three Steps

Assemble Your Team

Capture Your Knowledge

Organize and Curate

  • Community Team

  • Recognize top SME Contributors

  • Employee Volunteers

  • Advocacy Program for super contributors

  • Use APIs to pull data from community into analytics platform to create a clearer picture
  • Merge topics that are similar such as tech, technology or test, testing.

Last Three Steps

Put Knowledge to Work

Measure Impact

Evaluate and Evolve Strategy

  • Gain insight based on Community behavior – repeat issues, Geographic / market specifics
  • % solved

  • Voted / Survey effectiveness

  • Observed correlations

  • Broadening use case for community – involving new stakeholders