Community

Community workshop gives you knowledge on how to build a clear strategy resulting in building an engaged audience around your publication. What tools and techniques to use to have a community?

Time: 60, 90 or 180 minutes | Level: Semi-advanced

What  do we cover?

  • How to build a community around your publication?
  • How to differ community from good communication?
  • What are the tools, methods, events you can apply?
  • How to create a strategy and apply it regularly to your work?
  • And more…

Extra

You can find links, downloads and all extra materials from the workshop below.

If you have any questions, want to know about upcoming workshops or hire us to do one for you – just send us a message.

Talks

What you need to turn your publication into a membership business Sebastian Esser
Strategising with Your Community Matty Edwards
Insights about running community driven media organisation Dimitris Xenakis
Digital Storytelling – How To Build & Grow A Loyal Audience On Facebook Guido Bülow
Building a Community and a New Naratif Kirsten Han
3 ways news organisations in Europe are doing community engagement Madalina Ciobanu

Links

The art of hosting meaningful engagement events
Lisa Heyamoto
How Bureau Local runs its ‘open newsroom’ Slack discussions for members
Engaged Journalism Accelerator
How Dublin Inquirer created a ‘citizens’ agenda’ for city council elections
Engaged Journalism Accelerator
How Global Voices created a community council to give users a say in its future strategy
Engaged Journalism Accelerator
How Inside Story hosts workshops to commission stories with readers’ input
Engaged Journalism Accelerator
How Revista 5W let readers decide what it wrote about
Engaged Journalism Accelerator
How The Bristol Cable got 100+ people to take part at its annual member meeting
Engaged Journalism Accelerator
How Zetland made a podcast and audio player for and with its members
Engaged Journalism Accelerator
Why Maldita.es surveyed users to find out their ‘superpower’
Engaged Journalism Accelerator
A pop-up newsroom in Canada is taking a slow journalism approach to local news
Joseph Lichterman
How an Argentine newspaper built its membership program around commenting
David Akst
How High Plains Public Radio is building community with a book club
Joseph Lichterman
How The Bangor Daily News uses Net Promoter Score to learn more about its subscribers
Joseph Lichterman
How The South Florida Sun Sentinel connected with its community after the Parkland shooting
Joseph Lichterman
How this local Texas site used tacos to cover its community
Joseph Lichterman
How Vox uses Facebook Groups to build community
Joseph Lichterman
Journalists across Ohio are working together and collaborating with their communities
Joseph Lichterman
Lunch and learn: Inside KPCC’s Feeding the Conversation engagement series
Joseph Lichterman
The German nonprofit site Correctiv built a tool to enable community-powered investigations
Joseph Lichterman
The Guardian’s membership editor functions as the “connective tissue” between supporters and the newsroom
Kyra Miller
This library is using backpacks to help communities record their histories
Joseph Lichterman
Here’s how 15+ member-driven organizations are adapting membership appeals, events, and more for coronavirus
Ariel Zirulnick
Publishers are growing audiences by producing less content
Lucinda Southern

Tools

Facebook Groups

A place to connect with readers, uncover new stories, and dive deeper into topics that resonate with the community.

Facebook Live

Live lets you connect with the people who care most. Your followers can receive notifications when you go live, so they know to tune in to your broadcasts at just the right time.
WhatsApp

With WhatsApp, you'll get fast, simple, secure messaging and calling for free*, available on phones all over the world.
Telegram

Telegram is a cloud-based mobile and desktop messaging app with a focus on security and speed.

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