Networks/Communities

Group of users who are building networks and communities. They might have just done this through mailchimp /newsletter lists /slack etc.

Current focus and actions:

✏️ This is where the focus for CORRECTIV is right now. So we need to make sure we work closely with our internal users to develop a strong use case.

Come up with ways of making the best use of beabee for our own network building activities. Formulate and test our hypothesis. Strengthen the features inside beabee to help us grow these networks, gain deep understanding of the members and their needs for a user-centric development of the network and tracking our impact.

Action 1: Can we add tech budget when fundraising for those networks?

Action 2: Set up an internal user group to develop goals, tactics and feature "requests"

Action 3: Show as best practice cases

Who is on beabee 


• CORRECTIV.Lokal

• CORRECTIV.Europe

• CORRECTIV.Starthub

• bonn institute

• (Open EU application: The Circle Europe)

What they have in common

• Building communities

• Need a tool for community-members to talk to each other - using closed platforms slack/discord first, ...

• but need to have a better way to directly contact people (in segments)

How many more of those are there in Europe?

• Potentially Thousands, ngos, community groups etc.

• (Hearing need from Orgs like PINF, Arena for Journalism)

What they (would) pay

🐭 300 per year

Why they come to us

• Need an overview/database of their community members with segmentation/tagging option. One community member database - several sources.

• Own event RSVP connected into database

• Independent survey tool (away from typeform, Google Forms)

• Potential of Crowdnewsroom for the network

Features they appreciate / use most

• User database with segmenting

  • e.g. might like to do targeted messaging to different audiences

• Surveys for Onboarding/understanding who joins the community

• Don't want to build their own thing/or have a developer in the team.

Why they choose beabee

How they found us

• Direct contacts

Key to bring them on

• So far personal connection. In the future:

  • Independence messaging

  • Can compete with other tools in functionality and pricing

  • Strong use cases of simple database /CRM solution vs. the big expensive ones.

Key to make them successful

• Feel good about choosing the independent open source solution. Supporting

Other thoughts

• Competing here with

  • database solutions, especially airtable and bigger CRMs like salesforce, intercom

  • event tools (ones you need ticketing, beabee doesn't work, need something like pretix on top)

  • Survey tools (typeform)

  • also: Slack/Discord

Open questions

Hypotheses

• If we include Discourse we potentially have a feature to move some of those away from discord/slack

• Idealistic reasons to use us? Message for network orgs in the media space: When using and paying for us, vs. e.g. ... you support the infrastructure for the independent media scene. Partnership potential.

• Impact tracking use case / Establishing us as the impact tracking tool for impact startups/organisations ??

• Can CORRECTIV be an ambassador for our own tool here inside the networks and wider dcommunity.