Enabling Your Community Members

As a community manager, you always want to provide your members with all the [right] tools to optimize and increase participation. When thinking about the type of tangible rewards and gifts for your members, it’s better to go beyond the t-shirts, pens, key chains and the traditional chotchkies we’re all use to getting. Instead, think of things that enable members and elevates their participation to the next level.

Here are a few enablers that work:

• Flips cams
• Cameras
• Free Software
• Smart Phone
• Netbook
• Laptop
• Camcorder
• Desktop Computer

By arming your members with tools that allow them to [remotely] access your online community coupled with the means to create compelling content, you’ve give your community a caffeine boost. What other enablers have you tried? Did you see a significant spike in participation?