Finding and Building Your Online Community

Expert panel: finding & Building your online community

To kick-off my resources on Finding and Building Your Online Community, I held a webinar panel on May 6th, 2020, which showcased four experts in digital community building:

• Bernardo Bastien (Founder of Planeteando)

• Dr. Raul Pacheco-Vega (Founder of #ScholarSunday and Provider of advice and tips for graduate students via his blog and Twitter engagement)

• Dr. Sarah McAnulty (Founder of Skype a Scientist)

• Dr. Michele Tobias (Founder of the weekly Twitter #gischat).

Panelists shared experiences and tips in finding and building their online communities, identifying their audience and audience needs, strategizing content development, and leveraging online community for professional opportunities.

Expert tips on expanding your twitter community

Based on expert advice gleaned from Twitter and other resources, I developed a Top Tips for Building Your Twitter Community document. Many of these tips expect that you have a baseline knowledge of Twitter and how to access different parts of the application. If you are new to Twitter, awesome! Check out some of the below video demos to get started on building your base Twitter knowledge.

New to twitter? start here!

If you’re new to Twitter and online community building, welcome! You will find that online communities can be extremely supportive and useful when you know what you are you looking for and who you want to engage with - I encourage you to spend some time exploring and figuring out what works for you. Check out the resources at left to get started.