Starting Communities

Sometimes is makes sense to build community around your products or ideas. Both are possible, but have different grounds, but in every case community needs some support from your company. Another option is to build community as shared project. In that case, multiple companies will participate. Nevertheless, skillful and innovative community management is needed. Ossoil provides needed services to set up communities, big or small.

• Community basics - we start community for you
• Collaborate with contributors - we educate your staff to work with community
• Community IT management services

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Creating Community Strategy

Every community needs a roadmap. It creates mutual understanding about which direction community and the products are going. Ossoil can create suitable strategy for shorter (3 months) or longer (years) periods for your community. Services that create more 'buzz' in your community:

• Strategy planning - roadmap for community
• Consulting - help in getting existing community back on the right track
• Community management - our experienced community managers (permanent or short period)

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Developing Your Community

Existing communities might be in stagnation and need help in creating new activities. Open Source communities sometimes need a little push. That push can be real world meetups, other events or more web-based services. Every community has individual needs and need to be defined case by case. Ossoil has suitable services to wake up sleeping community:

• Event organizing - let us create events for your hard working contributors
• Identify what's needed - we can help you to identify missing 'links' and activities in existing community
• Develop communication - tools for transparent and open communication

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