Technology integration uses tools to help community-builders organize content. They can schedule, plan, create content, and manage daily tasks. They also handle weekly and monthly tasks inside your community.
As a community strategist, it is essential to align your community goals with your business goals. This alignment helps cultivate revenue and build a thriving community.
This sounds great unless you are one person trying to be the community-building team. You can’t do everything, like marketing, sales, lead-generation, and creating content, by yourself.
Tech tools help you as a community host. They help create a plan for your community. This plan lets you find calm and cultivate the community you are excited to lead.
Tech Integration helps community hosts in a few ways:
It helps create confidence in your process.
Give time back into your day and do more things you enjoy
Streamline your community-building efforts
Build effective systems for your team (if you don’t have one yet — you will!
Learning new technology can be challenging and takes time. It requires effort. However, using tech tools to create a workflow for yourself will give you more time in the long run.
The key to tech tools is to focus only on what you’ll need for the tasks. You’ll need a clear understanding of your community-building roadmap, launch plan, Onboarding plan, and marketing plan to do that. Check out this tech tools checklist!
Chris Fitz is the Founder and Artistic Director of River Crossing Playback Theatre in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. With experience in improvisational arts since 2003, Chris and his ensemble use Playback Theatre to build community by dramatically portraying real-life stories.
He is also a trained mediator and former Executive Director of the Center for Community Peacemaking, specializing in Restorative Justice—community-based practices that address harm and promote healing in schools, communities, and the legal system.
Chris sees Playback Theatre as a tool for personal and social healing, emphasizing the power of storytelling to foster connection, belonging, and understanding. Through performances like ”Healing York,” his troupe has addressed issues like racial harm, showing how storytelling can help heal communities.
Chris believes in the importance of repeated dialogue and rituals to foster belonging, whether in-person or online, and offers advice to community builders on engaging participants without relying too heavily on presentations.
His focus remains on creating safe spaces for people to connect, share their stories, and address community challenges through both art and conversation.
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The Community Strategy Podcast offers interviews with online community leaders who share their community-building journey. Our podcast covers community concepts, community building, community strategy, community structure, community membership, and community management. Visit our Website Find Calm Here to learn more about working with Deb
