{"id":1450,"date":"2013-11-19T18:26:42","date_gmt":"2013-11-19T18:26:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/community\/?p=1450"},"modified":"2013-11-19T18:26:42","modified_gmt":"2013-11-19T18:26:42","slug":"a-few-quick-community-building-tips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/community\/2013\/11\/19\/a-few-quick-community-building-tips\/","title":{"rendered":"A few quick community building tips"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At the last few <a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/WeeklyUpdates\">Monday project calls<\/a>, I&#8217;ve shared out a few quick community building tips.  I wanted to share them here too to give you some ideas for how to bring more people into the projects you&#8217;re working on.<\/p>\n<p><b>Starting<\/b>: Your project doesn&#8217;t have volunteers yet and you&#8217;re interested in building a community around what you&#8217;re doing.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Read <a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/Mozilla.org\/Contribute\/Stories\">stories from existing Mozillians about how they first got involved<\/a> with the project.<\/li>\n<li>Watch the <a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/Contribute\/Workshops\/Designing_for_participation\">Designing for participation workshop video<\/a> (soon to be reshot into a more watchable series of short videos).<\/li>\n<li>Join the next <a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/Grow\/Meetings\">Grow Mozilla call<\/a> and introduce yourself and meet other people involved with bringing people in to their projects.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Learning<\/b>: You have connected with some volunteers and you&#8217;re interested in learning about how to build on what&#8217;s working so more people can join.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Read Margaret&#8217;s great <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.margaretleibovic.com\/post\/57564605991\/increasing-volunteer-participation-on-the-firefox-for\">blog post about increasing participation on the Firefox for Android team<\/a> that has 5 helpful tips in it.<\/li>\n<li>Check out the <a href=\"https:\/\/badges.mozilla.org\/en-US\/badges\/awards\">recently awarded Mozilla badges<\/a> to get an idea of how some teams are recognizing contributors.<\/li>\n<li>Watch a couple of the <a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/Contribute\/Videos\">videos that have been created by community builders<\/a> for people interested in community building.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Scaling<\/b>: You have volunteers involved in your project and you&#8217;d like to turn up the dial on participation.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Create a <a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/Contribute\/Dashboards\">contribution dashboard<\/a> to give you insight about where you can improve the experience for volunteers.<\/li>\n<li>Contact the <a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/Badges\">Open Badges team<\/a> and start a discussion about creating badges for your contributors.<\/li>\n<li>Get involved in a <a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/Contribute\/Working_Groups\">community building working group<\/a> to help shape the infrastructure for participation at Mozilla.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the last few Monday project calls, I&#8217;ve shared out a few quick community building tips. I wanted to share them here too to give you some ideas for how &hellip; <a class=\"go\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/community\/2013\/11\/19\/a-few-quick-community-building-tips\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1438,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23323],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1450"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1438"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1450\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1450"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}