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The Platform Engine Blueprint Cohort now open!
Claim your early bird registration for our live cohort on designing, selecting, and building your Community platform! Course starts May 19th!
^ Have an email template! ;D
But sadly, It does. Platform decisions suck. There’s no helping it.
Your Community’s tech stack will always require tough decisions between the features available, the cost of each solution, what you’re on now, and how willing you are to fit the platform’s limits. You don’t need a platform that pretends they don’t force you to make tough decisions. You need to consistencly navigate the market to your best solution.
You have a lot of messy stakeholder opinions to navigate before committing to a platform, So I’ve put together a 6-week platform engine workshop to guide you into the right home
This cohort is for new leaders struggling to implement on their missions, community builders drowning in new feature requests, and brands who’ve outgrown their shell
Find the right solutions to get your community to your short term goals, without limiting your long-term mission or breaking the bank on platforms that are too big for you.
Navigate tough growth problems and difficult stakeholder discussions to find the right features and tools for your community’s health and ROI
Enhance your community’s features and implement scalable solutions to today’s problems while preparing for tomorrow
Ready to design and build your Platform Engine?
Have your boss pick up the tab with this convincing email template!
May 23rd
Map the community
“User’ Journey
May 30th
Map your Technical Community ‘Flow’
June 6th
Do stakeholder discussions
June 13th
Map Your ‘Value’ Decisions
June 20th
Select Your Platforms
June 27th
Build your Platform Engine
This is step 2 to your ideal community, but entirely stand-alone.
Join the Cohort by May 1st for 20% off!
Need help convincing your boss?
We’ve put together an email template that worked for others!
We co-create all of our course content by working with real brands going through real problems in our Socially Constructed Discord. Purchasing this Cohort will provide you exclusive VIP community access to anyone who’se taken any of our courses so you can help each other regardless of the course you’re in!
I totally get you there! Money is really is hard right now—especially when it’s on the back of a Community that takes a while to build.
Here’s what I would do for you:
Yeah, we anticipated that’d be a problem.
Here’s a template that’s worked for others. You can start your email here, or you can copy/paste the copy below:
Hey [boss],
I’ve been looking at ways to improve our online community, and I think I found a course I would like approval to take.
One of the biggest things we’ve been struggling with is [your biggest struggle].
While looking at ways to solve this problem, I discovered an eCourse called the “Build a Platform Engine to power your community”, [link to the course], as part of Samantha ‘Venia’ Logan’s eCourse series teaching the Social Science of Community. It caught my eye and excited me because it [will help your struggle how?].
This course dives a LOT deeper into selecting a platform than any of the other courses and focuses more on the problems and decisions we’ll need to face then it does the platforms themselves. I think this could really cut a lot of red tapes and make sure we don’t have to do this dance again in a few years. it will also prepare me for a lot of unforeseen hurdles we’ll run into. It will make me a better Community builder, and I’ll come out of it with a really well-assessed platform Venia will help me choose. I think this will help us get on board rather easily.
The course requires around 20 hours of commitment, for $1200 dollars, but if we were to consult with her instead, that’s only about 7 sessions. Plus, I’ll get VIP access to her community and free feedback on the dossier if we encounter big roadblocks or questions.
Please take a look at it, give it some thought, and let me know by the end of next week if we have it in my career development budget? I’m genuinely excited about this! I’ll bring it up in our next meeting!
regards,
[your name]
In a word: YES!
Although we will reference exercises and content from the first course, and it’s WAY easier with a complete brand dossier, I’ve built this cohort to be a stand alone product .
As long as you have the following things in any capacity you’ll be fine.
To make this easier I’ve also given you access to the brand dossier itself for free through this course. If you want help processing through that book the course and I are always available.
In short, yes, You’ll be fine.
Unless you’d prefer it werent, free advertising!
SociallyConstructed.online builds communities co-iteratively. That means we use real brands like yours in the cohorts to teach people the social science of online community.
In exchange you’ll have lifetime access to the course that you participated in. The recorded course will be updated every time a new cohort occurs though.
Fo purchasing the cohort you’ll also get priority and discount seats on future cohorts as well!
The expected lifespan of the recorded eCourse content is about 3 years before we recommend re-taking it, because this industry mosts FAST.
All Communities struggle with platform decisions as it grows and there’s really no stopping it, but let me say this as someone in this business for 10 years.
Frankly, if you don’t know how to discuss the hard value propositions that underly platform decisions, you’ll continue to run in to the platform never being enough.
This course is ALWAYS a great idea because it will help you find the problem, convince others it IS a problem, and then fix that problem with little to no red-tape.
We do, indeed!
Because the Socially Constructed Community co-creates our resources we cater to a variety of learning methods.
Recorded eCourse
After thios cohort we will launch an eCourse that you get automatic access to!
The PDF workbook:
We will also build a lot of worksheets and resources with the cohort that will be published as their own pieces of content for those who don’t want to purchase an entire course and you’ll also get access to these.
This Cohort and all education resources we make are a part of the Socially Constructed Community!
Because we are an iterative community where we co-create together, most of the people there can help you because they had a hand in the resources we make!
If you’d like, absolutely!
You can set up a consultation here.
Typically platform assessments take around 6 weeks to complete because of the difficult decisions involved, but it is usually ~25 hours start to finish. It’s relatively cheap actually!
Claim your early bird registration for our live cohort on designing, selecting, and building your Community platform! Course starts May 19th!