I’m looking for ideas and strategies to get the members more active and involved. Does anyone have suggestion on how to get the members more active? I would be interested in community events, activities and other ideas to make our community more active. I have a large community almost 500 - 1000 active bloggers and over 8000 members. But for some reason all I'm seeing is 600 hits a day.... I'm getting maybe 9000 unique hit a months and 90,000 page views. I think I should be able to triple this with the right suggestions. How do I get the bloggers excited, active and visiting the site more often?
Yep, have a contest! You don't even have to give monetary awards, a special user badge or a link in a good spot will do the trick.
I am having a contest http://www.blogengage.com/blogger/blog-engage-our-first-official-year-end-contest-2009/ Check it out
Hi, Community interaction is a very good and interesting topic. To keep your bloggeres active publish some interesting activites where everyone can participate freely. You can even conduct some variety of contests and give out some gifts to the winners. You can also post some announcements, conferences, symposiums, job related topics, etc. This will make your bloggers interesting and excited.
A very active type of post I saw on a blog was asking members to vote on stuff. Or to write in their favourite something. Like one was "What's the best business book you read in 2009?", or something like that. It got very many responses. I guess the simplicity of the response helps in that case. Then the blogger publishes the results after a while and starts another list. These lists are very popular posts.