Establishing and building a community around a common interest is hard.<\/p>\n
After exhausting your network of friends, coworkers, neighbors, etc – the only way of getting new folks into the community is to aggressively campaign and advertise to them.<\/p>\n
Let’s say you’re a technical user group (like a couple of the ones I’m a part of). And every month you have about 5-7 folks who show up on the Appointed Day\u2122 for the regular meetup. You can either be satisfied on the size of the group, or you can try to grow it.<\/p>\n
Growing it, however, is never easy: there are scheduling conflicts, personality clashes, lack of contacts, etc.<\/p>\n
What are the best ways – or even just “ways”, ditch the “best” – of growing a community after you have gone through everyone you know?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Establishing and building a community around a common interest is hard. After exhausting your network of friends, coworkers, neighbors, etc – the only way of getting new folks into the community is to aggressively campaign and advertise to them. Let’s say you’re a technical user group (like a couple of the ones I’m a part …
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