The secret to boosting community involvement isn’t just having an online space—it’s about using the right interactive corporate community platform features.
Are your corporate community members less active than they used to be? You might be missing a vital piece: understanding exactly what engages your community.
With Aluminate’s Insight feature, you can clearly see which activities resonate most with your members, allowing you to focus your efforts effectively. Think of it as having headlights guiding your way, ensuring you’re never driving in the dark.
Here, we’ll explore the essential interactive features to engage your corporate community and keep it thriving.
What is a corporate community platform?
If you have a business, then you have a corporate community. A corporate community network includes employees and leadership from within the organization. However, it can also include corporate alumni (ex-employees) and external stakeholders like business partners, customer communities, collaborators, and suppliers.
A corporate community platform is the space where the whole corporate community comes together to connect, communicate, and collaborate. It facilitates the sharing of knowledge and resources. It also helps members build a better, stronger corporate community together.
Benefits of a corporate online community platform
If you want a successful online community, you need the right online community platform. That means you have a community that supports a wide variety of community initiatives and activities, and that you can scale to grow along with your community.
How do you know that you have the right corporate community platform? You’ll know it when it offers benefits for all members of the corporate community. The best community platform offers members the following benefits:
Alumni network engagement and a talent pool for ‘boomerang hiring’
An online community platform keeps the lines of communication open with your former employees. It keeps them all actively engaged in a corporate alumni network within your corporate community.
A corporate community platform also gives you access to a talent pool of qualified candidates for succession hiring. Corporate alumni make excellent candidates. These rehires, known as ‘boomerang hires’, hit the road running as they already have the necessary inside knowledge.
Camaraderie, community building, and access to mentorship
An online community platform is a virtual meeting place that fosters connections, lifelong business partnerships, and meaningful relationships.
Everyone has something to teach and to learn. Senior employees can share a wealth of knowledge borne of experience. Junior employees can teach seniors how to adapt to the latest technologies and trends. Corporate alumni can mentor current employees.
Industry news plus professional and personal development resources
A corporate community platform allows corporate community members to access resources like online courses and tutorials for personal growth and career development. These new skills make them even more valuable to the community at large.
You can use the online platform to highlight all the latest industry news and trends, keeping business partners and collaborators’ members informed and engaged. That’s a starting point for more targeted project planning and brainstorming sessions.
Networking and philanthropic opportunities
A corporate community platform provides members with community spaces ideal for virtual networking opportunities. Those geographical barriers are no longer a problem; they just melt away in the face of innovation and enterprise.
It lets your members give something back to the larger community that has supported them. The platform acts as a collaboration space for the exchange of ideas and managers planning corporate social responsibility (CSR) community events.
Where to get the top interactive corporate community features that boost engagement
A great community platform multiplies all the benefits. Let’s examine the top interactive corporate community platform features you need for your corporate community to thrive.
Aluminati, the world’s most customizable online community software platform, brings you Aluminate for Enterprise, the best online community platform for corporate communities. But what makes it the best corporate community management platform for engagement compared to other online community platforms?
There are three reasons leading organizations choose Aluminate as their online community platform:
- It’s fully customizable. You can personalize every element of the platform to better engage your corporate community. Use it for building a corporate alumni network, as an enterprise social network, for social networking—whatever you need.
- It’s a user-friendly platform. There’s no stress about special training and learning curves. Aluminate for Enterprise is feature-rich yet easy to navigate for the best user experience. This means it’s quick to adopt, and your corporate community will want to keep using the platform.
- It’s highly dynamic. You can keep your corporate community up-to-date with the latest events and news whenever they log in. You can personalize everything on the Aluminate platform so that each member sees what is most relevant to them. This is the key to reactivating dormant corporate alumni networks.
- It’s incredibly interactive. The Aluminate platform strives to make corporate community involvement fun, with interactive features that rival the other community platforms. It’s the leading choice among top organizations looking to engage their communities.
Best of all, it has the platform features you’ve been looking for.
Community-wide engagement
Get ready for community engagement across the board—the digital dashboard. The digital dashboard is the core of the Aluminate Community Builder and the key to building a thriving online community.
Use it to post the latest industry news, trending topics, and invitations to networking events. Create online courses and manage virtual events. You can get as specific as you like because our matching engine algorithm ensures that users are matched to the concepts most relevant to them. On Aluminate for Enterprise, you can cater to every niche.
Engagement through special interest groups
They may all be part of your corporate community, but your members have their own skills and interests. Speak to the special interests and skills of your valued members by creating safe spaces for them to socialize.
Our interactive groups module allows you to create sub-communities and private discussion forums within the larger corporate community. Create one for corporate alumni, for current employees, for business partners, and collaborators. Group members according to special interests or location.
As your community grows, members will naturally gravitate toward certain groups. That’s fine; they can choose to join the groups that appeal most to them.
Engaging, life-changing mentorship
Mentorship doesn’t just aid in transferring knowledge from one generation to the next. It works both ways in a multigenerational corporate community.
It’s life-changing, and with Aluminate, it’s easier to match mentors and mentees than ever before. Our matching engine algorithm doesn’t just match users to concepts but also to other users. It acts as a mentor-mentee matching feature to support our interactive mentoring module.
Your corporate community members can easily find the right mentor or mentee without wasting any time or effort.
Get Interactive with Aluminate for Enterprise
An engaged corporate community is the key to business success. A dedicated corporate community platform can offer countless benefits that help your company and your community to thrive. And with the latest interactive features, it will offer you so much more.
Look no further than Aluminate for Enterprise, the most customizable online corporate community software. We have the key features it takes to build an innovative and resilient corporate community. Request a demo today.
