Community Dojo
Autodesk Group Network Website
  • Welcome to the Community Dojo
  • What's New?
    • NEW Community Conversations
    • ARCHIVE: AU2020 Community Meetups
    • CONTEST: Design a Virtual Background
    • Groups during COVID
  • Best Practice Guides
    • Getting Started with the Guides
    • FIRST: Start with a Simple Spark
    • Starting a Community Group
      • Tips for starting groups
      • Group mission & vision
      • Setting ground rules & etiquette
    • Running a Group
      • Tips for running groups
      • Community management & engagement
      • Partnerships & sponsorship
    • Hosting Events
      • Event strategy
      • Pre-event planning checklist
      • Event facilitation
      • Larger events
      • Event marketing
      • Tips for events
    • Tools for Groups
      • Tips for community tools
      • Tools list & links
      • Survey Results (2020): Community Tools
      • Autodesk's Meetup Pro Network
    • Online Groups
      • Tips for online groups
    • Company Practice Groups
      • Tips for company practice groups
  • Resources for Group Network
    • Benefits Guide
      • Welcome Guide
    • Brand Guidelines for Groups
    • Content & Speaker Database
    • Public Roadmap
    • Group Leader Hub
  • Contribute!
  • Get Support!
  • Creative Commons License
  • About the Autodesk Group Network
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  1. Best Practice Guides

Getting Started with the Guides

These guides are built from the experience of community group leaders. Each has a 1-page Quick Reference Guide that's downloadable as a PDF (A3, 11x17) and sub-pages with deeper-dive advice.

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Guides

Nourish the spark that got you into this work in the first place. Follow where it takes you.

Strong groups start with clear goals from leaders and by providing value to members. As you start engaging: focus on listening, see where the community takes you, and see where you can take the community.

The most important thing in running a group is helping people, conversation, relationships, and ideas flourish.

Events are powerful containers for learning, building relationships, developing ideas, & getting inspired. In-person events can be especially powerful, but online events follow the same patterns.

Groups use tools to organize activities, host conversations, connect people, & engage both members and the world. The choice of tools is driven by your group’s goals, membership, & preferences.

Online groups are a fluid & flexible way to stay connected in conversation, share information, & learn. But it's also more challenging to form the deep personal connections that are forged in-person.

When developing communities of practice within your company, there are both unique challenges and opportunities to design for. These groups can really drive practice improvement & innovation.

Other Community Building Resources

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- A network and community of practice of community managers, who host an annual conference.

has recorded talks.

- A consultancy that hosts a community of practice and resource library for community managers working mostly in corporations.

- The Resource Centre is a charity serving voluntary and community groups in the UK (specifically the Brighton and Hove areas).

CMX
CMX YouTube channel
The Community Roundtable
Resource Centre - UK
FIRST: Start with a Simple Spark
Starting a Community Group
Running a Group
Hosting Events
Tools for Groups
Online Groups
Company Practice Groups
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All 6 PDF Quick Reference Guides
We hope you find these 6 guides to be useful and easy to use.