When it comes to building a sense of community, this isn’t something that requires residents to be there in the physical sense. In today’s busy world, it’s not uncommon to have conflicting schedules come into play when trying to host community events in order to foster a true sense of community, and bringing your community online is a way that you can bring your residents together no matter what their personal schedule may entail. Creating an online sense of community is relatively simple, and it can be done using a variety of different platforms, all giving you a way to foster that community feeling without all of the scheduling conflicts that go along with it! A few ways to bring your community online are:

  • Start a community forum – A forum is a type of message board that can allow people to communicate with you and with one another. These types of forums can be used as bulletin boards for community events as well as a way for community members to voice their concerns and get to know one another in a comfortable and natural way. When starting a community forum, you may want to advertise or attach the forum onto your main community website, and have the forum require sign-in credentials to keep it exclusive to your residents.
  • Community Facebook pages – Facebook allows private and public groups that make perfect places for bringing a community online. These Facebook groups can act much like a forum, but they can be easily accessible through Facebook or attached to your community’s Facebook page for optimal easy access.
  • Resident Website – Another way to bring your community online is to attach a page to your website that is only for residents of your community, and to provide for them on this platform a way to contact you as well as a way to keep up with current community events. Meetings, gatherings, parties, and other types of social events can be posted on this portion of the website to allow community members to know just when and where things are happening around your community.

At Occupancy Solutions, we want to make it easy to turn a community into a place where people feel welcome, comfortable, and part of a larger whole. By bringing your community online, you can do this in a way that remains convenient for your community members, and allows them to go about fostering their own sense of community organically. To learn more about bringing your community online, simply contact us at Occupancy Solutions today!