Episode #4 – Use the Co-Created Approach to Successfully Launch your Community with Anamaria Dorgo

Anamaria Dorgo is Head of Community at Butter and Founder of the L&D Shakers. Butter is a software platform where you can plan and host virtual sessions. The L&D Shakers is a community of practice for Learning & Development professionals. She joined the Butter team in June 2021 and has built their facilitation community from the ground up.

She works with a core community team of 6 community members to bring workshops, webinars, AMAs (Ask Me Anything Sessions), and other types of events to the community. They curate an ever-growing free library of facilitation resources and support Butter’s users in getting educated on how to make the most out of the product.

In this podcast, Anamaria and I talk about:

• Her approach when joining the Butter team and the goals she set for the community project
• What were the steps that they took when building workshops 
• How the initial group of facilitators co-created the community foundation as a result of the workshops, as well as other beneficial ideas that the workshops sparked
• What the preparations and the building process looked like prior to the community project launch 
• The types of questions that were asked in order to make the community as full of value as possible and meet the needs of the members 
• How feedback is being used to improve and grow the community and help the members reach their goals
• Ways in which co-creation is encouraged in building the community