In this presentation, Richard will explain how organizations can use proven principles of social sciences to increase the level of activity in your community.
This will include an understanding about what motivates people, the key principles people need to know, how to embrace psychology and social-psychology, and finally a showcase of organizations which have built thriving communities upon social science principles.

Richard Millington is the founder of FeverBee, an Online Community Consultancy and the Pillar Summit, a community management training course. He has helped clients including Oracle, Novartis, The United Nations, Amazon, Lego, GreenPeace, EMC apply social science principles to develop thriving online communities. Richard is also the author of Buzzing Communities: How To Build Bigger, Better, and More Active Online Communities. He believes the key to developing succecssful communities is to combine proven principles of social sciences to modern community building.