This is one interesting discussion by the host and speaker, bread being my favorite host so far. So speaking on how to keep a community engaged because we all agree creating a community and its members does stop there, engagement, participation is another key way of growing the community.
Now the question of what is the purpose of this community, what are the goals, why was it created? Is it to help the founders or those beneath them, is the community just for NFT projects or more ridiculous, is it for the profit, where the founders or leaders of the community come for the benefits and leave the community later on.
One of the speakers stated that to build a community you need to set clear expectations of what your plans are and post-mint, the reason why there's a fall off in community engagement, is after doing make some projects then the founder just break off and goes on break, and during the mint period the founders of communities over sell or hypes and at the end of the day they can't live up to that expectation they have set. So in this case founders should be able to balance things, by setting clear expectations, by not going for the high highs because they will likely find themselves in the low lows…in the market of course. So keeping the clear expectations so your holders know what coming is just ideal.
I think I agree with the speaker, though I can't tell their name, where he stated that set clear expectations so your holders, the community can know what's up, like that's another form of transparency, and this starts with the founder, you need to show that you're around by engaging with your community members once in awhile, maybe on discord as he said. Where you just go every morning and night just to show your present. Showing the commitment to as a founder or a leader is super, this doesn't only make the leader committed but also shows a good example that those under him might likely follow. Examples could be you chat on the discord, share posts twice a day, being real and honestly as you can be and being up front as a leader matters because the community will always look to the founders.
Another important question that was addressed there was should people get paid for engagement, I would say a big no to this because why look for financial backup or profile for building the community you claim to be.
According to Santa, where she stated that people want to feel this sense of belonging that's another thing that could bring people together in a community too, so from the founder the just have to be a type of engagement coming from them, if a founder maybe post once in months, of course the members will leave and look for a place or community that engagement is rapidly done and his or her effort is been shown.
So when the engagement part of the community is cut off from the founder, value won't be there, because the founder is not there to encourage the foundation and that could affect the afford or the whole idea of being the founder.
One of the speaker I really need to applaud brought the idea of redeeming GO trades, he was ready to dedicate his time and even risk his own comfortability just so he could redeem the trades of those people who come see him in Miami, and this is how you know a good founder of leaders they are ready to provide that atmosphere of opportunities for their members or followers, even new members, they want to show how reliable they are, how stable they can be and help improve your growth as well as theirs too.
One important part in the space that I couldn't miss was when the speaker talked about the importance of working together and making money together there's no greater feel then knowing you and your members or partners are making money together, nobody is left out the circle, he went further to talk about one important thing the founders should do, listen to them, you don't have to taste them as a founder, re-organize them or tell the how they should be, he also talked about how the PFTS were able to keep the engagement running, he also emphasize on how we can make money and still keep the engagement department running because social media is looking for ways to keep interaction going, and this won't make the social media platform less instead it will make it more valuable.
I think one of the things that makes a community on hive less important is something the creators or founders failed to see, once you don't keep that connection between you and the community or the members which is through engagement of course, the community become less noticed and before you know it everyone even the founder ghost the community because it's not bringing into the table what they hope for. So I thought these founders are one big cause of why the community doesn't engage how they should, because you can put up a competition out there with a good reward after participating, and most of the communities on hive are doing it, inkwell, Splinterland the list goes on and on.
To conclude this I find participation, engagement and stability one powerful source to keep a community going, if the founders are not transparent in all their dealing, if they are not engaging with their members or listening to them when they talk or bring forth ideas or complaints then things will definitely go south. So these engagement goes both ways, from the founders and the community members but what keeps the community going is the activities that keeps the members in the community engaged, the fact that they see how their founders are disciplined goes a long way too.
