Community Gamification: Underutilized

Within the past few weeks my colleagues Pam and Colleen started a ComBlu blog series that looks at the four primary areas of community vibrancy best practices: engagement, content experience, community management and gamification and how they measured up based on a...

Community Engagement: Mixed Reviews

This is third blog post in ComBlu’s series on Community Vibrancy. Our research on how communities are measuring up is based on studying the four primary areas of vibrancy best practices: engagement, content experience, gamification and community management, and...

Online Community Vibrancy – What Does it Take?

Online branded communities have become mainstream with companies of all kinds leveraging them to help support their overall business and growth objectives. The majority of branded communities are designed to serve at least one if not all three of purposes: to provide...

Coffee Talk: Boosting Community Engagement

This morning, I met up with a couple of industry friends to kick around a few ideas on how to take a venerable community to a new level of engagement. Like many folks in the tech space, their community members are stretched thin with little time and budget to devote...