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💬 How to engage members to join discussions and reply to posts?

Nurturing
Have you ever felt out of your depth, like a fraud, and just guessed/bullshitted your way through the situation, petrified that at any time, someone was going to call you on it? - Mike-Cannon Brookes

Lead by example. Don’t ‘ask’ anyone to do anything, because unlike hierarchies within organizations, a community is a group of people who are there by choice. And that choice is almost entirely influenced by value. Initiate discussions yourself, host events, share and curate content - be who you would want someone else to be in a community.

In 2018, I took a Udacity course in front-end web development and found the community managers to be stellar advocates who were really motivating. I was looking to break into tech, and got inspired and started applying for community-type jobs as a result. I landed my first gig at Khan Academy, where I led and managed volunteer groups for a year before moving onto Quora to oversee writer and power user programs, and am now doing the same at Retool. - Alina Din, Community Manager at Retool

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