Technology integration uses tools to allow community-builders to organize content, schedule, plan, create content, and manage the daily, weekly, and monthly tasks inside your community.

As a community strategist, aligning your community goals with your business goals to cultivate revenue and build a thriving community is essential. 

This sounds great unless you are one person trying to be the community-building team, the marketing team, the sales team, the lead-generation team, and the content creator.

Tech tools help you as a community host to create a plan for your community that allows you to 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.

Allows you to streamline your community-building efforts

Give time back into your day and do more things you enjoy

Build effective systems for your team (if you don’t have one yet — you will!

Learning new technology can be challenging and takes time , but with a bit of effort, 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!