/blog/b/community-blogs/posts/observations-from-a-community-newbieFor those of you I haven&rsquo;t had a chance to meet yet, my name is Becky Anderson, and I joined the Community team early in 2021. I came from the customer experience portion of Verint, and therefore had little to no exposure to a community.&amp;...en-US14.0.0.611 14https://community.telligent.com/blog/b/community-blogs/posts/observations-from-a-community-newbieSat, 26 Mar 2022 04:02:32 GMT909c0287-3e70-40ca-a8ea-53a1d941916ejhayharris0<p>I am spending this evening browsing this blog library which goes back quite a ways, I am sad there is not more recent material.&nbsp;</p><img src="https://community.telligent.com/aggbug?PostID=1355540^AppID=2409^AppType=Weblog^ContentType=0" width="1" height="1">https://community.telligent.com/blog/b/community-blogs/posts/observations-from-a-community-newbieSat, 26 Mar 2022 04:00:46 GMT909c0287-3e70-40ca-a8ea-53a1d941916ejhayharris2<p>This was a very helpful read Becky!&nbsp; Point 5 is resonating with me a lot as I am starting to hear a lot about the analytics I people want to see and how to baseline &#39;growth&#39;.. the first thing out of everyone is the need and how to grow the community.. but I think the point about changing behaviors which will obviously then imply also a motivation transition perhaps is a very important metric to track... particularly in my case where I am taking on and existing community that has become &#39;stale&#39; and trying to reinvigorate it!&nbsp;&nbsp;</p> <p>I am still not clear on how the distinction between social channels and the community should be drawn.. still trying to piece all of these peripheral constructs together.</p><img src="https://community.telligent.com/aggbug?PostID=1355540^AppID=2409^AppType=Weblog^ContentType=0" width="1" height="1">