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Community Interaction and Service Adaptation F r e e P i n t The Business Information Community Communities >> Promoting Interaction >> Adapting Services Presented by William Hann Managing Editor, Free Pint

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Community Interaction and Service Adaptation

Fre

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The Business

InformationCommunity

Communities>> Promoting Interaction>> Adapting Services

Presented byWilliam HannManaging Editor, Free Pint

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Community Interaction and Service Adaptation

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The Business

InformationCommunity

Content

• Knowing who your users are

• Knowing what they want

• Promoting interaction & repeat visits– Repeat traffic– Quality of the Bar– Content– Customer service

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Community Interaction and Service Adaptation

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The Business

InformationCommunity

What is Free Pint?

• Community of 28,000 business information searchers

• Twice monthly newsletter seen by over 100,000 readers

• Research forum (the “Bar”), book reviews, events, news, “tipples”

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Community Interaction and Service Adaptation

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The Business

InformationCommunity

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Community Interaction and Service Adaptation

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The Business

InformationCommunity

Knowing your users

• Registration

– Short

– Optional

– Terms of Use andLegal Notices

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Community Interaction and Service Adaptation

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The Business

InformationCommunity

Knowing your users

• Manual tally sheets• Telephone responses• Customer service

– Speed of response– Politeness and respect– Reliability– Hand written compliments slips– Beermats

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Community Interaction and Service Adaptation

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The Business

InformationCommunity

Knowing what they want

• Reading lists(LIS-LINK, BUSLIB-L etc.)

• Keeping in touch (articles, Favourite Tipples, book reviews)

• Read all postings at the Bar

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Community Interaction and Service Adaptation

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The Business

InformationCommunity

Free Pint Bar

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Community Interaction and Service Adaptation

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The Business

InformationCommunity

Repeat Traffic

• Bar Digest– All postings emailed 3 times a

week

• Daily Tipple

• Bar submissions by email

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Community Interaction and Service Adaptation

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The Business

InformationCommunity

Repeat Traffic

• Bar summary in newsletter

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Community Interaction and Service Adaptation

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The Business

InformationCommunity

Repeat Traffic

• Account Management

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Community Interaction and Service Adaptation

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The Business

InformationCommunity

Repeat Traffic

• Personalisation

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Community Interaction and Service Adaptation

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The Business

InformationCommunity

Quality and Content

• Quality– Quality of Bar postings and

correction of errors– Delete rude postings

• Content– Quick Tipples on homepage– Newsfeed, events and book

reviews with purchase options

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Community Interaction and Service Adaptation

Fre

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The Business

InformationCommunity

Communities>> Promoting Interaction>> Adapting Services

Presented byWilliam HannManaging Editor, Free Pint