# Successful examples of non-tech professional communities on Discourse?

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**Category:** Community Building\
**Created:** [March 28, 2024, 4:17pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/successful-examples-of-non-tech-professional-communities-on-discourse/301370 "2024-03-28T16:17:05Z")\
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**Post date:** [March 29, 2024, 11:59am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/successful-examples-of-non-tech-professional-communities-on-discourse/301370/5 "2024-03-29T11:59:01Z")

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> [@ZeroFlux](#):
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> Can you identify places where professionals or maybe researchers are sharing their latest work, learning insights from others, maybe exploring collaboration opportunities in a specific sector?

I’m involved in several professional forums in the digital health arena. Most are at least semi-closed, but here is one active public example:

> **[openEHR](https://discourse.openehr.org/)**
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> Technical standards for an EHR platform and domain‑developed clinical models to define content.

I have found that the whole online forum concept is quite foreign to those who aren’t super IT savvy, and it takes a lot of work to move them past the social media and chat paradigms that they are much more familiar with.

> [@pfaffman](#):
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> I’ve been thinking about trying to put together a way for organizations to use discourse as a membership management and communication tool.

Well Jay, I’m doing that with a couple of sites already.

Basically, they utilise a combo of:

1. Subscriptions plugin
2. Custom Wizard plugin
3. Calendar plugin
4. Jitsi Theme Component (with some extras)
5. Shared Edits (for live ‘minutes’)

Some targeted improvements of these (especially of Subscriptions and Calendar) would go a long way to making this combo fly nicely. Does this deserve its own topic? Cc @pacharanero

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