Best way to engage

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It is not clear what is the best way for this network to engage. Do you just respond to the introduction? Do you take the questions that are asked and create a topic? How are people informed that new topics or people have joined and have questions. It may take some time to get this rolling, but it will require continued contributions - how to ensure. Lots of questions on the use of this - but have optimism that is could be useful.

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Hi Sandy!
Thank you for the optimism. These are all great questions. And I agree with you, this will require continued contribution from all the members. Here are some tips that I think can help us get started:

  • If you find an interesting article on the web you want to discuss, quickly start a new topic by pasting a link into the topic title. Try it!
  • I found this article useful: Launching a Successful Discourse Community - Do you think we can implement some of these strategies?
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I was wondering about this too. I am thinking that maybe we do follow up questions or takeaways from the events and workshops?

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@Brian - that’s a good option too. But someone has to take the lead or be proactive in putting up questions, comments. AND you need sufficient numbers of individuals in the system to react/read. This community is rather small right now?

In addition, while I saw your comment and Shreya’s by email (which was a helpful trigger), what about the new people? I only found the new intro by wandering around - there was no trigger to welcome the “new” person. Will the other comments/messages, categories send out an email trigger?

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These are good points Sandy - I think we may need an quick start guide / trigger on how/where to find things and make the best use of it. I will get the rest of our team to join and see if there are ideas on this.

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Great. A guide might be useful on purpose and triggers for engagement. The email was a helpful reminder of this and get me back looking. Hopefully more people will raise questions, comments, and thoughts to make this an active resource.

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