There are six steps

1.  Nurturing stage:

This part can start with the corporate characteristics, organizational culture, and knowledge strategies. How can the goals of the existing social network, value, and operating theme be closely interconnect with the enterprise’s operation? These will all be considered for affecting the social network

2. Preparation stage:

This stage is a further step of starting to the organize structure. The overall network purpose goals, the roles and job distributions of each member are formulated and qualifications of participants are set; the scope of participants, and possible number of participants are also taken into consideration

3. Promotional stage: 

Allow the members to clearly feel the existing value and the advantages of joining the network and use effective and appropriate channels to promote the achievements of social network operation, in order to attract more members to participate, so other people will become interested to participate in the social network

4. Operational stage:

Regarding the plan and structure of network operation. They can be divided into people, events, time, locations, and materials. First of all, the network members can be divided into official or non-official members. They have different rights and roles. The operational procedures of social network should be regular or irregular gathering events, lengths of gathering, time of events (During work or after work) etc. These all need to be taken into consideration. As for the locations, they need to be arranged according to number of participants, the size of the venues, held inside or outside the company. The shapes of the tables and decoration will also affect the events. As for the materials, there are many materials needed for the network operation, including facilities, communication, or broadcast media, like through telephone, mails, e-mail. The important thing is how to preserve precious knowledge documents

5.Training stage:

As for the training and learning part, the focus is mainly on understanding the operational themes of social network, scope, and depth. In addition, there should be clear goals in learning, so you can stipulate complete training plans, so the network members can have diverse abilities, and helpful for promoting knowledge shifting, and upgrade corporate knowledge quality and quantity. Care needs to be taken to avoid s only sharing and no learning between the networks, as in this situation they will reach the bottleneck of “growth ceiling” eventually. Therefore, it hoped members can develop habits of self-learning and growth 

6.Operational stage: 

In the social network operational plan, we need to ask what are the main themes of social network culture, and what are the elements of that culture? For example, a sharing culture needs to be nurtured by developing mutual trust. It needs to be considered how can a network be operated and promoted to work smoothly with limited resources