Take Your Community to the Next Level

Stuart Foster at The Lost Jacket.com had a worthwhile recent post about taking your community to the next level. Despite everything you are doing not enough discussions are happening, people aren't engaging with each other and your community is spinning towards irrelevance. I like Foster's five recommendations:

1. Incite. Take a stand. Do something interesting.
2. Invite new people, with new and exciting voices, to the discussion.
3. Take your content to another community. Grow your community by exposing new people to your voice, product or service.
4. Inject your personality into the mix. To succeed you need a distinctive and real voice. People can sense passion and you should be sweating from every pore.
5. Be everywhere. Hit every place you can think of and own it.