Technology Strategies & Solutions

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Communities of Practice

Communities are about people, not software.

Online communities offer you an unprecedented opportunity to facilitate peer-to-peer interaction within your association. No other technology has comparable power to address your member's ever-growing demands for timely, high-quality information that is targeted to the appropriate audience and customized to meet their needs.

My association needs to connect its members in an engaging and effective way. How can I facilitate that?

If you build it, will they come?

Who will set goals for your communities to achieve? How will you organize your communities into productive groups? Who will work with your members to make sure that they take advantage of the tools they have to share information? Who will step forward to encourage discussion about vital but sensitive topics? How will you encourage and reward meaningful participation?

Fusion helps you to find answers before you build.

Once we find the right recipe for success, we begin organizing a set of tools that are right for your organization. These tools, developed by Fusion and optimized for association use, may include:

  • Social networking tools like blogs, whiteboards, content tagging, chat rooms, discussion boards, and photo albums
  • Personal, community, and association calendars
  • Polling
  • Newsfeeds
  • File sharing and document collaboration
  • Group email systems
  • Personalized home pages
  • AMS Integration

Getting the combination right can lead to enhanced knowledge sharing, increased member loyalty and member retention, ideas for new products and services, and new, non-dues revenue sources.

Best of all, once your communities are up and running, we don't just walk away. We can monitor the progress of your communities and provide you with suggestions to improve their use.

Examples:

  • AHIMA Communities of Practice

  • ASME Communities of Practice

  • NSCS Web Development & AMS Integration
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