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Poshmonkey said:

What advice would you as a Community Leader give to a Learnhub member who would like to become a Community Leader too? (A successful one :-)

chelseaFC said:

Give the people something to talk about and they will appreciate it.

Poshmonkey said in response to:

My tips are as follows, if you want to get to the Top 20 Authorities:

• Choose a topic you are passionate about, so that you keep yourself motivated to do research, to write, discuss, etc. Should members for example ask for advice, it wouldn’t be difficult for you to help if you are competent in that sector (but you don’t need to be an expert….)

• Try to find a niche, not necessarily a topic where there are already similar ones in this forum.

• Try to do something every day (or at least as often as possible).

• Set yourself a goal by what time you want to be in the Top 20 and work towards it.

• Have a look at the Authority list and try to find out where the priorities lie in terms of point allocation and have a look at it every day so that you see how you are doing.

• Don’t forget to invite people to your community. Don’t just relax, hope and wait. Don’t get depressed if it might be difficult at the beginning. Tell them in your profile why they should join your community, then it might be easier to convince them. In my MannersAndCareer community for example I mention 5 reasons. So, think in terms of BENEFIT you would offer your members …..

• Try to think about good topics for discussions and debates. One tip could be for example to look in the news/current affairs section.

• Don’t forget quizzes/tests, members love doing them.

• Once you are quite well settled and you know how everything is working, try to enlarge your number of lead communities.

• Try to deliver new interesting material on a regular basis to keep your community alive.

• Appreciate other people’s work.

• Try to establish good relationships with all your members and non-members. Don’t forget what goes around, comes around.

• Don’t cheat! If you are rating your own stuff, it doesn’t really increase your credibility. In the end, people can see it ….

Hope it helps and hope we get many more suggestions so that we can create a lesson with all of them!!!

rkmittal said:

Excellent tips, Karin. Last but not the least, follow these tips and keep your own self interest alive, on a consistent basis, to hope keeping the community members’ interest alive. I have observed certain members suddenly becoming very active and then going through a long lull. Consistency is the name of the game.

oLahav said:

Great tips poshmonkey!

My personal tip would be not to give up even if you’re a bit frustrated. There’ll be times when people don’t respond to thing quickly and discussions will be pretty dead. But if you keep uploading good material, and starting new discussion topics, eventually people will join and respond and you’ll have a great time and a great community. It’s just like everything else in life- keep at it and it’ll work out.