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Define a strategy for your online community

Your community strategy needs to start with your newsroom strategy. This article helps you refine and focus your newsroom’s work and the role of your communities in helping you succeed.

You can’t just start with the comments – you must to have a clear sense of your mission, how you know if you’re succeeding in achieving it, and the role of your communities in helping overcome obstacles to your mission. Only then can you start to build a coherent comments strategy.