Find and Invite Folks to be Your ‘First 10’

Building a course alone is a daunting task. We guarantee that co-designing with a crew makes for a more successful online community. To wit, we invite you to:

• Start a new topic on discourse under the new courses category to tell people about the course you are building.
• Poke through the forums to find folks who might be interested in the topic or could give you some tasty feedback. Mention them in your post by attaching @ to their username. (For example, Dirk is @dirk).
• If you have pals with interest or expertise in this area, send them the link to Discourse and ask for their feedback and ideas.

This is a good opportunity to grow your network and to get other people to work with.

Observe and Participate in Other Communities

The best way to build a quality community is to participate in other communities. Take a look at how other courses do it:

• Why Open
• Writing for Change
• Play With Your Music are good examples to look at.

Observe how..

• folks welcome new people to the community
• how community members interact with each other
• how they celebrate success
• how they give feedback to each other

Post your observations to Discourse under Course in a Box: Community Safari.

Images of how to get there:

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