We've been busy re-imagining what community is and improving the MoTaverse one improvement at a time.
To improve the community, we may think that we need some kind of radical innovation, but we do not. Perhaps what is more important is to do the obvious and simple things well, with ease and with community care.
One of my favourite things to do is feature member blog posts on the MoTaverse homepage, like the screenshot below.
On the face of it, there is nothing new here, but what you don't see:
🦅 TeamMoT keeping an eagle eye on what the community creates
🕸️ Community systems thinking in action, it's not just a featured blog post, it's content added to a member's profile and can also easily be found or reused within the MoTaverse, it will likely feed into other content at some point too.
🔥 Features built that allow this to happen in less than 60 seconds
🧪 We're actively experimenting on the cross section of community and journalism and what that could look like
It is a win-win-win:
- Win 1 (People): Anne-Marie Charrett gets visibility on the homepage and on her MoT Profile
- Win 2 (Organisation/MoT): It expands the MoTaverse with an extra piece of knowledge that is available and searchable and members get to learn something new.
- Win 3 (Ecosystem): We help spread good quality engineering ideas further to help advance our industry
There are hidden or less visible wins too, like the sense of joy I personally feel doing it. The community stars that are earned along the way. And for Anne-Marie, hopefully that simple feeling of visibility, belonging and recognition.
So, when you hear me rant or explain that community is really more than a forum or a community platform that we often default to. This is what I mean.
Community is part of everything we do. We can pop in and out. We can experiment. And we should be empowered to share everywhere we go.
The above didn't directly involve a forum or chat conversation, but it has been built upon years of conversations, collaborations and relationship building.
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