What makes a Facebook group “off the charts” active 👩🏻‍💻 Lindsay Russell, Facebook - Get Together

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“Every party needs a host. Every team needs a coach. It's no different online than it is in our real world communities.” - Lindsay Russell At Facebook, Lindsay Russell was a part of the team that used data to identify, validate and supercharge the company’s biggest community building investments to date. In their research on what makes a Facebook group active, even vibrant, Lindsay. and her team realized that successful groups had one clear commonality: a remarkable admin. These admins were spending hours every day running the platform's most engaged groups, where users were talking about everything from infertility and miscarriages, to gender politics in Nigeria, even dog spotting and cruise-going. That core insight led Lindsay and her team to spearhead a novel effort within Facebook’s walls: investing in the community of power admins who were essential to the product’s success. If the groups team wanted to supercharge their product, they’d need to supercharge these power admins - empowering more of them to fulfill core tasks for their groups.

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