WhatsApp and Discourse Challenges

What are the best ways to manage an organization that has multiple WhatsApp groups that are active and get them to share the “knowledge products or nuggets” into the discourse based community?

There are multiple channels based on the type of user, their workstream, their rank within the organizations that are part of our community.

We are really trying to reel the valuable information into one place as with scaling making it crazy.

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This is a pretty old post, but it’s still relevant and may include some tips which are helpful. Effectively using Discourse together with group chat

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I think the approach you take to this may depend a fair bit on the context of your particular organization and the current dynamics (who participates where, where they sit in the org, how much overlap there is between groups, etc)

But one suggestion I have is to consider starting with a more hands on approach:

  • identify people who are motivated to build more knowledge in Discourse*
  • actively listen to and participate in conversations on WhatsApp to decide what content to create in Discourse
  • create topics that you can then easily share in WhatsApp when relevant conversations come up

* this could be a very small number to start – e.g. one or two others – as you start to demonstrate the value of being able to easily create and reference valuable content in Discourse (and discuss it in more detail), look for others to pull into the group to do this alongside you.

By doing this in a more hands on way, with a small group of people who share your goals, you can learn together and then work out what other things to try next.

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