Originally shared by Carol Dodsley Keeping communities cool If you have a Google Plus COmmunity - it doesn't matter whether you have a few hundred or thousands of members, it is important to manage your community well. Sadly I have seen communities that start up and gather a whole host of members, and then the owner kind of disappears, new requests to join are ignored and the owner is never there to engage with the community. If you start a community it is really important that you keep it organised, that you, the owner respond to join requests and that you pop in to talk to your members, comment on their posts and engage with them regularly. Not only is this a great way to build your own online visibility and to showcase who you are and what you do, but it is also the way to help others to learn more and be more too. If you build a community purely with the intention of garnering likes and positioning yourself, and then when that has happened you stop engaging, responding to joi...
