Thriving Community Show

Episode #4 - Use the Co-Created Approach to Successfully Launch your Community with Anamaria Dorgo


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Anamaria Dorgo is Head of Community at Butter and Founder of the L&D Shakers. Butter is a software platform where you can plan and host virtual sessions. The L&D Shakers is a community of practice for Learning & Development professionals. She joined the Butter team in June 2021 and has built their facilitation community from the ground up.

She works with a core community team of 6 community members to bring workshops, webinars, AMAs (Ask Me Anything Sessions), and other types of events to the community. They curate an ever-growing free library of facilitation resources and support Butter’s users in getting educated on how to make the most out of the product.

In this podcast, Anamaria and I talk about:

  • Her approach when joining the Butter team and the goals she set for the community project
  • What were the steps that they took when building workshops
  • How the initial group of facilitators co-created the community foundation as a result of the workshops, as well as other beneficial ideas that the workshops sparked
  • What the preparations and the building process looked like prior to the community project launch
  • The types of questions that were asked in order to make the community as full of value as possible and meet the needs of the members
  • How feedback is being used to improve and grow the community and help the members reach their goals
  • Ways in which co-creation is encouraged in building the community
  • Where to find Anamaria:

    • Linkedin
    • Website
    • The Miro Boards Anamaria used in the workshops she talked about:

      • The workshop board
      • The board where they made sense of the data and asked people to sign it
      • ...more
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