Invisioneer.org - New Forum Launch for Forum Enthusiasts 🎉🎉🥳🥳

[JoelR]

Passion and Strategy are the fuel for the next great community. We invite all forum enthusiasts, forum administrators and webmasters, and community builders to check out Invisioneer.org, a community focused on community management. All are welcome.

You'll find a refreshingly different take on building an online community. Yes, we have forums, but our topics are drawn from the best in community management trends and thought leadership that you won't find anywhere else.

🚀 Simple & Thoughful - You won't find tons of side accessories like forum battles, point economy, forum games, or server and domain discussions. What you will find is a focus on what matters: smart and interesting discussions based on disciplines from psychology, sociology, leadership, organizational theory, and community management.

🚀 Inspiring - We're here to help you build. This means that being supportive, motivating, and inspiring is ingrained into the very mission of the community.

🚀 Learning - We believe in learning from smarter ideas and people. We're home to (as far as we're aware) the world's largest community management dictionary with over 500 unique terms. We're home to over 100+ custom articles inspired by top organizations such as Harvard Business School and Feverbee. You'll find topics such as Emotional Intelligence, Innovation for Solopreneurs, and Personal Leadership.

🚀 Something Different - You're probably a member of every other forum admin site. If you're looking for something a little different that will push you beyond your comfort zone with new ideas and discussions that you won't find anywhere else, we invite you to give us a try.

 

[JoelR]

What's New?

📰 Journals - We launched a new section in the Forums for users to post more long-form perspectives and insights, perfect for blog articles. Write your first Journal.

📰 Custom Reactions - We launched 6 reactions, designed to highlight three of the most common and universal expressions as well as three unique ones that are contextual to the community to learn, inspire, and passionately and respectfully discuss. Read more about our Reactions.

📰 Social Sign-In - It's now easier than ever before to register and log-in to Invisioneer with our support of popular email platforms of Google (Gmail), Apple (iCloud), and Microsoft (Hotmail and Outlook). Register now for free.

Share Your Thoughts

Here are 3 inspired discussions you won't find anywhere else, drawn from the best in community management trends:

• Fear of Sounding Stupid - This is one of the reasons why your lurkers might not be responding. Are users afraid that they don't have anything valuable to add? How do we, through design or messaging, encourage and nudge users that their comments are welcome?
• Do your users actually need a community solution? - You write blog articles, long-form articles, or in-depth research and guides. Published content is designed to be consumed, not to connect. So why are you building a community, which has a very different approach to solving solutions?
• Why do you love your Swedish DIY furniture so much? - The IKEA effect is real. Learn why making your own furniture means you love it more than furniture that you buy. And build a community that users passionately care about.

Are you thinking about something right now about your community? Share it now and see what other passionate community leaders have to advise.

Be Inspired

"A boss has the title, a leader has the people." -American author and speaker Simon Sinek

My twist: "An admin has the server, but the community leader has the people."

Learn Something New

Here are 3 smart concepts for you to learn:

• 1000 True Fans
• Nudging
• Overjustification of motivational crowding

 

[Page]

A good place to share your Amazoning work and get to know other people and work with each other

 

[Al]

Already impressed with Invisioneer. I did initially think, (as you pointed out in Different From A Forum Admin Forum Promotion Site) "Is this yet another forum administration / forum webmaster / forum promotion site?" It's great to see a different approach. I've already signed up and hoping to exploit your expertise.

 

[JoelR]

Already impressed with Invisioneer. I did initially think, (as you pointed out in Different From A Forum Admin Forum Promotion Site) "Is this yet another forum administration / forum webmaster / forum promotion site?" It's great to see a different approach. I've already signed up and hoping to exploit your expertise.

To a large degree, a lot of forum admin / forum promotion sites heavily overlap. In fact, when I evaluate some of the existing sites, they're also heavily focused on community management and community operations, with some side discussions on server / domain / SEO / promotion. Some communities are like 40 / 60, other communities are 20 / 80. We plan on being 90 / 10

At the end of the day, my goal is to offer discussions that you won't find on general forum administration sites, and to incorporate references and thought leadership from areas that we don't normally learn from.

The Internet is big, and there's enough space for all of us, but I do believe legacy forum admins are at a crossroads.

 

[Al]

Hmm. I was just having this conversation today about the webmaster forum ecosystem. They are a number of forums providing a very similar service. You’re probably a member of about 4 of them. They have the same layout, the same services and, interestingly, the same members. What sets each apart from the other? Very little it seems to me. Doing what you’re doing, something different, is a welcome change.

 

[JoelR]

Hmm. I was just having this conversation today about the webmaster forum ecosystem. They are a number of forums providing a very similar service. You’re probably a number of about 4 of them. They have the same layout, the same services and, interestingly, the same members. What sets each apart from the other? Very little it seems to me. Doing what you’re doing, something different, is a welcome change.

I agree!

There's almost like a template formula for these webmaster forums. You must provide a classifieds section. You must provide a promotion section. You must provide a DragonByte points system. You must have 5 teams for design, editorial, reviews, etc.

On one hand, I think it can be a wonderful, social experience that is comforting and familiar. On the other hand, I wonder how much these forum webmaster websites actually move the needle to help communities be successful - how do you evaluate the success of forum webmaster sites? Do you measure it by how much engagement and off topic posts your members write, or how many sites you help be successful? And I think when we start to ask these bigger questions with metrics of what actually matters, we start to recognize how some of these sites fulfill purposes that can be very different from their stated goals.

 

[Al]

There's almost like a template formula for these webmaster forums. You must provide a classifieds section. You must provide a promotion section. You must provide a DragonByte points system. You must have 5 teams for design, editorial, reviews, etc.

You must do the same. You must do the same. You must do the same. Same. Same. Same.

The formula is getting stale. It needs revolutionising. I’ve always appreciated this ‘classic’ format; please don’t take my post as criticism, but the situation we have is that someone from within this ‘ecosystem’ creates a clone of the parent site. The same members move over to the new forum and engage in conversation with the same people they speak to on the parent forum. They offer the same services in the same format.

The last one that was created; a full one third of the posts are off topic. They aren’t adding any value to the forum, it’s just “what did you last watch on tv” style spam.

So to see something new - with a tight, specific approach - join the fray is very exciting.

 

[Katrina]

New types of discussions are great. Are you afraid that there will be people who steal your threads/ideas?