The CSAE Trillium Young Professionals’ Online Community
Purpose
The CSAE Trillium Young Professionals’ (YP) online community helps foster connections between, and learning among, CSAE’s YP members. It provides a space for members to collaborate, seek feedback and ask questions, and share information and resources for personal and professional growth. It is also a place where the YP Committee promotes its events and further engagement between young professionals and the broader CSAE community.
Goal
The CSAE Trillium YP online community strives to become the go-to place for young professionals to connect and share with their peers.
Tools
The YP online community uses LinkedIn as its online community platform, to advance the professional networking goals of the group. The LinkedIn group is called the “CSAE Trillium – Young Professionals.” It can be found at the following link: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/8295814
Community Members
The CSAE Trillium Young Professionals’ online community is open primarily to association industry professionals who are under 35 years of age. Prospective members can find the group – CSAE Trillium – Young Professionals – by searching LinkedIn and making a request to join. Online community members can approve joining requests from their first-degree connections. If the request comes from a person outside the first-degree connections of existing YP online community members, the group owner will be responsible for approving the request.
Engagement Strategy
- Invite new members
- Post content and encourage engagement between online community members
- Promote the online community at YP events
Community Member Roles
Group Owner
- Review and approve joining requests from individuals who are not first-degree connections of existing community members
Community Lead
- Act as the primary point of contact for any questions regarding the online space
- Review content regularly to ensure the group is adhering to the community rules (see below)
Content Leads
- Generate original content for the YP audience to push through CSAE’s various channels, including the YP online community
YP Committee Members
- Invite colleagues and contacts to join the group
- Approve joining requests from first-degree contacts
- Post a minimum of six discussion questions or resources per year
- Engage with other community members’ questions, resources, etc.
- Assist with promoting YP events to encourage registration
- Other CSAE Trillium events may also be promoted, depending on their relevance to the group
- Post post-YP event details (e.g. photos, recaps, surveys) as tool to encourage future participation
- Seek feedback on Committee’s work (e.g. surveys, solicit input for future event topics, speakers, etc.)
- As necessary, provide input regarding community members who are not adhering to the community rules (see below)
Community Members
- Invite colleagues and contacts to join the group
- Approve joining requests from first-degree contacts
- Post discussion questions, resources
- Engage with other community members’ questions, resources, etc.
Community Rules
- Be respectful: Appreciate that others may have an opinion different from yours.
- Do not advertise: Members should be careful not to use the space exclusively to promote or advertise their own company/association’s products services or events.
- Be professional: This is a professional networking community – please keep discussions focused on work or volunteer related initiatives.
If you have questions about the CSAE Trillium Young Professionals Task Force or Online Community or would like to get involved, please contact Maddy Marchildon at [email protected].
