Luna Carmona at @wp_glasgow

Event #51: “Build a Community with WordPress and Social Media”, by Luna Carmona

Luna started by giving Mark Z of FB as a good model for communication. Someone to be trusted! I guess this indicated I was not the target audience;-)

I did enjoy the talk. Luna covered the way she had used social media to support building a community around Achieve More Scotland. This is a small but valuable organisation. In a couple of years they have greatly increased online engagement.

Takeaways:

try multiple channels don’t be scared of dropping the ones that have little engagement.

Meet community where it exists using the channels folk already use.

Twitter in the morning, Instagram in the middle of the day and Facebook in the evening.

Try for community rather than followers.

Respond quickly.

There are lessons for online educational communities here.

There wasn’t much specific WordPress information I wonder if some IndieWeb tech could help?