- Regular discussion or chat threads.
It’s one of most important factors in increasing engagement in a community because in chats people communicate their ideas one v one manner. They interact with each other personally in chat threads.
2. Included your communities in some decision making, asking for feedback and ideas, and so on
If you involve communities in decision making then they will feel themselves as important to the community rather than being just a member of some community. They will themselves feel themselves as a part of the community and also feel themselves responsible for the well being of the community.
3. “You don’t talk so I don’t chat” problem:
One of the most common problems with the communities is that the members don’t talk enough or engage enough with each other to even make it a conversation. Seeing that other members of the community adapt to what the others do. So if you talk a lot, chat will get active as well in some time.
If the members talk a lot and are interesting and entertaining, maybe even just commenting on what’s happening in the post, the viewers/members are more likely to participate in it and give their opinion. So if you talk a lot, chat will follow. Not directly because they need time to adopt as well, but they will.
4. Learn to carry a conversation
This point is more of a mindset thing. You ask how it’s going and he says “I’m fine thanks” or maybe even “fine wbu?”, then you say “fine” and this was all the engagement?