Don't call it a community newsletter
A short story on how we doubled our email open rate for our weekly newsletter
A short story on how we doubled our email open rate for our weekly newsletter
Community is not performance, when human and AI meet, the fine art of freemium communities
10 mindset shifts to help you advocate for the fine art of freemium communities
17 sources, including: GenZ lurkers, standing up to tyranny, algorithmic discrimination
Understanding the value of databases of knowledge
Exploring community generated data in the age of AI
It is this! No, it's that!
The rotting internet, third-party data for AI, pain and business value
How capturing community data led us to informed product decisions
19 resources this week to help you explore community building: Consent, two types of feedback, the ROI of a local library, and more!
An action focused mindset makes all the difference to our community strategy
12 links to help you learn about community building this week. Garbage In, Garbage out. Private equity kills community. The small web.
What can we learn about this from a community perspective?
It's easy to fall into the trap of over thinking
16 links to help you expand your community knowledge
It's here, or more accurately, it's here for me. Coming soon to paid members.
With a hint of audacity.
Especially for community discovery and community knowledge management
Actions with confidence lead to better outcomes.
Every industry needs a community of practice to independently serve them.,
20+ insights, relax whilst Rosie researches 😊
The best community ideas come through exploration
The Duolingo backlash
The most comprehensive community building roundup out there! Hours of research, condensed into minutes of effort for you. 🐌
This is the community engagement course you never knew you needed!
And did someone say Rosieland Community Courses?
There's a popular saying that keeps getting quoted:
We're starting a referral program at Ministry of Testing, we're calling it MoT Friends, but crucially,
👋 Welcome to another week in Rosieland, it's a jam packed edition! 🌈 This week in Rosieland: * Step one towards
It's easy to forget how much information we consume as community professionals. It's constant. It'
👋 Welcome to another week in Rosieland. Every tid bit we share helps expand the world of community building. I hope
When it comes to data generated by our community, I’ve been refraining from jumping on the AI bandwagon. It’
🌤️ Welcome to another week in Rosieland, I hope you enjoy your community stay. Remember, I do community research to save
When the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) is also the Community Executive Officer (CEO). What do we mean by
Bluesky's founder and CEO, Jay Graber, was recently interview at SXSW, here's what I love about
We can despair, or we can see hope in the changes of the world.
🌤️ Welcome to another week in Rosieland! 🌈 This week in Rosieland * Community algorithms are everywhere * The very many objections we encounter
A while back I asked what was stopping people engage in a community. It turns out this was a pretty
👋 Welcome to another week in Rosieland! 🌈 Recently on Rosieland: * Introducing Community Discovery, again * To start a community, create a lexicon
This is a written version of a talk I did for Community Week. I've been on a journey
It's time for different community strategies, the old way simply isn't working anymore...
When people ask me about the community we are building, their minds shift way too easily to "community platforms&
☀️ Welcome to another week in Rosieland! 🥉 Why third-party platforms are killing your community – and what to do about it? | Remote
And my desire for it to become a thing of the past. Perhaps it's the sign of the
👋 Welcome to another week in Rosieland where we bring you the latest in community building. 🌤️ What you've missed
I’ve been reflecting on our current internal Community Knowledge Management (CKM) processes and the progress we've made.
At the heart of good community is research. 20 years into my community career and I feel like I’m
I keep going back on forth on thoughts about community structure and strategy. As with all these things, every organisation
👋 Welcome to another week in community! Communities at the heart of research. It's happening. | Rosieland It seems putting
It seems putting the people at the heart of research is becoming (more of )a thing. As a huge advocate
👋 Welcome to another week of opening your mind to expanding what your community could be. 🌈 This week in Rosieland: * Leave
My mind is a bit blown at the amount of MoT Meetups happening right now. In January over 500 people
One of the things I’ve been becoming more confident in is the idea of saying that the community heavy
👋 I'm feeling hopeful for the future of community these days as I see change and interest for what
Mastodon's CEO announced he is handing control to a non-profit organization, stating that it should not be owned
👋 Welcome to another week in Rosieland! 🌈 This week on Rosieland... Every week I show up to help you learn and
Houston, we have a problem here. We are being displaced digitally. It's leaving us in a state of
As part of building good community we should acknowledge that no one can come in and magically make good decisions.
In my day-to-day work, we're creating a Community Ambassador programme.
Welcome back to another week in Rosieland. 🔥 It's been a tough week watching the LA fires, it'
TLDR; Meta are shutting down the company's fact-checking program for Facebook and Instagram would implement a community approach
When we look at community as the whole picture. When we commit to community not being built in a silo.
Welcome to the first Rosieland Roundup of 2025! Hopefully everything you need to keep on top of what's
Community can be a bit fluffy. A bit intangible. A bit directionless at times. We can believe in something, yet
The way we organise and connect is changing. Embracing informal networks needs to be considered as part of building effective
2024 was something else. Intense, is an understatement. Here's my personal take on it that I haven'
I've been saying for a while that engagement and conversation in community is often detrimental. It's
👋 Welcome to another week in community building, the one newsletter to keep you informed and educated. 🌈 On Rosieland this week:
The very nature of community means we often associate our work with conversations. People like to make commentary. They like
👋 Hello! I'm happy to bring you the latest community building roundup. Honestly, I was feeling a bit down
Too many conversations can be overwhelming and we must learn to balance them in our community design.
It’s funny how people struggle with the idea that community and business can co-exist. We have to be totally
How we function as society needs to be balanced, we've gone on far too long without paying attention
🌦️ Welcome to another week in Rosieland. It's been very wet and windy here this week! Conference Challenges | Rosieland
Conferences are a tough nut to crack! Whilst content is important, connection is often what tips them into making them
👋 Welcome to another week in Rosieland, enjoy! The side effects of building with community in mind Learning to see the
When you build something. When you are deep within co-creation. When you recognise that building community is more than conversations.
I've been transitioning everything of mine towards the open web and it's giving me real hope
Traction is the business of community builders and building in isolation will not help us find it.
👋 Welcome back to the one newsletter you need to stay on top of the community industry. 🌈 What I've
The conversations we have within community are worth looking at from many different perspectives.
One of the things I have the most joy out of in community is having fun with branding. I'
🌈This Guide to Community Discovery as a PDF + Google Doc. It's a comprehensive guide to community research with
There's a future of community I'm excited for, and it has a lot to do with
👋 Welcome back to the one newsletter you need to stay on top of the community industry. 🌈 What I've
Open data often ignores the communities they came from.
Of course, community work is team work!
👋 Welcome to another week in Rosieland! Happy learning! 🌈 What I've written and shared this week: 🌊 Two recent examples
We often struggle to find ways to connect and start conversations, but perhaps sometimes we need to explore everyday activities
Are we too quick to move on to sharing the latest happenings within our communities?
The tool market tends to expand and retract. For a while we had tools focusing on just one thing, many
As a founder, leading a company, and being responsible to employees and our community, I often find myself contemplating wtf
Experimenting in community is essential for survival.
I recently saw someone mention how the community they've been working on was shutting down after many years
I'm all for AI, but also there are real problems that it brings to our communities. I'
My last post was about how community channels can be prototypes of other work we end up producing.
Looking at channels with an action focused mindset can help us move our communities forward with greater clarity.
One of the things I've been striving to do is learn from how others do community. Often the
...get out there and do the work locally.
Distractions and short-term thinking are red flags when we build communities.
We often fall into the trap of believing that the one thing is the answer. And often this turns into
In a world that is constantly interacting. Where we are measured, obsessed, and judged based on engagement. Where we need
I love this idea of Data-Driven Community Quilting so much.
Let's have a quick look at a local creative community space.
The world of community is changing and it's exciting to observe. The loneliness epidemic is real, the way
As part of Community Discovery we focus on learning and discovering. I've written about many angles of this
The Fediverse is not new, but there's been a recent and increased shift towards its adoption. For me,
A lesson in the power of how we think about conversations with two.
The world changes. We change. Our needs change. I started Rosieland in 2020, that wonderful start of the pandemic year.
We have a problem in the community industry where all too often the emphasis of our work is placed within
In my last article wrote about emergent community processes and how the only way I know how to build communities
It's impossible to fully plan for community as many of the growth and opportunities happen in an emergent
You know I love community flywheels, right? I'm always looking for new ways to look at community design
Much of my writing these days is inspired by what I'm doing at my current role (Founder + CEO)
🚢 I've often fallen into the trap of sharing over shipping, is this a common thing in community? I
My thinking and feelings about community are constantly changing, as they should. The market has changed. The world is changing.
What’s a regret you have with your community? One of mine is not giving enough attention to the idea
A while back I asked myself if the decisions we were making were community compatible and the phrase struck with
The pandemic has been 'interesting' for community and now as the world moves on and faces different challenges,
👋 Hello, this is a new regular newsletter where I highlight 3️ community examples I have found during my community research.
🌈 TLDR; How I'm thinking about creating a community glossary with intention. I'm so into community collaboration,
One of the things I've been working on is aiming for a community flywheel that simply works. One
Join us on Wednesday March 27th where Tatiana Figueiredo will share her latest thinking in building and growing a community
I love creating a good "community is not marketing" meme. It's how I end up expressing
The algorithm's are everywhere. Most notably in search engines and social networks. We have become accustomed to them
Incase you didn't know, I have a thing about Community Discovery. Here's my current definition of
In this event Gareth Wilson covered: * The essential elements of messaging that captivate and convince – Gareth will guide you through
There's a phrase that I can never get sick of, it's the Community Flywheel. The concept
In this event we had an open and facilitated discussion on the topic of Community Flywheels: * what are community flywheels?
❤️ On creating a Community Love Language Statement. I've been listening to bell hooks, first her book on Belonging
One of the things I've been working on is bringing awareness of all the little activities that are
I'm having so much fun going down a community discovery focused approach to community building. I recently wrote
We hosted a conversation on community conversations and captured the recording, transcript, summary and poll results.
🧹 I've been tidying a few things up and as part of this I've done a bit
One of the ongoing perspectives that I'm developing with community building is that we are researchers. And having
Much of our community work can often rely on sponsorship. This could be for your conferences, events or meetups. Your
I was recently chatting community with Nola Simon about community and she pointed me to her words on what she
A while back (in a previous Rosieland space that I ran) I posed the challenge of sharing a definition of
This is a Milly Tamati inspired post, where she described the hard yet important work of advocating: Part of the
Community is at the heart of everything I do. To be community-led is to have community at the center of
We talk about community building in terms of connection, conversations, belonging, and relationships. But what if we talked about it
☀️ One of the wonderful things about community are all the amazing possibilities. There are so many things we could do!
We talk a lot about distributed community, or the of idea of 'community is everywhere'. We talk less
About this Community Challenge: Required reading: The Hell Yeah and No Community Principles. Off the back of the article, I
👋Hello. My name is Rosie and I'm guilty of doing community things without properly thinking them through. There
We just need to think of a local village and the elders who live in it. We can then start
A short post from me during a busy, positive yet hard week. I'm reflecting on a moment we
Have we fallen out of love with the currency of citation? I’ve been trying to place my finger on
Are we all a product of our communal efforts? I stumbled across the concept of scenius a while back and
When we look at community through the lense of a community flywheel, anything that stops, slows or hinders our community
When we think about building community we can fall into the trap of overly focusing on conversations. This doesn’t
Are you even a community builder if you haven't sent out a message and all you heard were
A community migration very much feels like creating a home. You have an idea of how things will look. Where
🐰 I fell down a rabbit hole and resurfaced two days later with a curated guide on Notion. The world talks
There's nothing like a good old community migration to get me to re-think how to build community. One
I've been designing Glitter, the Rosieland "community space" and I love approaching community with a learning
We're going on a one-day Rosieland Retreat. I've been in procrastination and social anxiety mode on
For my Rosieland efforts, I feel it is part of my duty to question the status quo. Just because something
Creating a Parallel Community means investing into building and replicating your community culture in distributed channels, or locations other than your main 'community home'.
We continue our Rosieland Community Interview series with Andy Claremont, Head of Community at Glide. Glide makes it easy to
The deeper I dive into the world of community, the more conviction I have in the power of what communities
When I get talking to people about community and problems I see existing in the world, I often bring up
I don't know about you, but the term "ROI in Community" freaks me out. I don&
We continue our Rosieland Community Interview series with Marie Poulin founder of Notion Mastery. Notion Mastery is a hybrid course
🙏 A big thanks to Chauntelle Lewis, Stephanie Baiocchi, Karina Mikhli, Sara Saunders, Val Mercandante and Camile Silva for attending and
We continue our Rosieland Community Interview series with Dru Riley, Founder of Trends.vc and the Trends Pro Community. Trends
I'm a big fan of questions in community, but my dissatisfaction comes when they don't provide real support, exploration, learning or connection opportunities.
Community is increasingly becoming responsible for more types of community generated content. Perhaps in the past the majority of our content was contained with forums and social. These days, depending on the team set up, we need to widen our thinking of the content we could be creating.
Turn-taking is where people speak one at a time, it sounds simplistic, but this approach can be adapted to the communities we build.
Next up in our Rosieland Community Interview series we connected with Lexi Kakis, Community Engagement Manager for the Uncovered Community.
This is a story about kickstarting LinkedIn audio spaces in Rosieland. I'm sharing what I'm doing
Welcome to my belonging and othering notes from the book Design for Belonging by Susie Wise. Please check out the
We do research before starting businesses, it would be daft not to! It doesn't guarantee success, but it
A community tactic to help us take action on what people feel and need.
We continue our Rosieland Community Interview series with Taylor Harrington, Community Manager for Groove. Groove is a social app bringing
Co-creation in community can be powerful, but it also comes with misunderstandings. We often think co-creation as a quick and easy win. The reality is it is perhaps the hardest thing to pull off.
This series of guides aims to dive deeper into each of the 10 Community Business Models. Here we will take a look at Community Sponsorship: design considerations, approaches, pricing, tactics and tips.
We continue our Rosieland Community Interview series with Kt McBratney, co-founder of OwnTrail. OwnTrail “offer tools, connection and support for
I'm a bit of a productivity and Personal Knowledge Management (PKM) geek. I wouldn't call myself
What they are and why you might want to consider them In recent years, the role of the community manager
TLDR; The best community experiences are custom built. Here's the thing about good community: it blends in so
🌈This post has been submitted anonymously by a community member as a way to share their recent experiences in hunting
A deep 5000 word guide to building a community membership.
Welcome to our new Rosieland Community Interview series. We sat down with Femke, a product designer, educator, mentor and founder
All the excitement around community over the past 3 years and I still think we're in it'
We’re in an age where community has to get better at proving our worth to the rest of the
In this series, we'll explore 10 Community Business Models, one in each session. Community businesses need a different mindset, one that puts their people at the heart of decision making. Available to paid members.
🌈This guide is a starting point for further conversations and learning opportunities. Communities of practice are groups of people who
🔮What does community building actually mean in our world today? And how can we get better at talking about what
☀️ Hey everyone! It’s time to encourage some better community habits! I recently asked what was “so 2022 in community
🌱 Amidst the chaos and my personal increased general dissatisfaction with social media I had a seed of an idea. I
We're bringing Masterminds to paid members of Rosieland.
It's a time for re-imagining how social media, audience building and community tools can work together optimally. Today
Notes and the recording from our Community Discovery Collective.
👋 Hello from Rosieland This is a database of real community job descriptions that have been published by companies. I created
👋 Hello everyone. I'm Matthew and I will be your guide in Rosieland today. You can’t write for
A Notion template to help you get into the habit of taking note of all the important community activities. ❤️
A community philosophy I live by is that we need to think about community maintenance, constantly.
🔥 What makes a community tool is such a spicy and debatable topic, one that continually gets me fired up. The
I love giving new names to community things, it’s become a habit of mine over the past couple of
🌈 We take a deep dive into what makes a business a community business and list out 10 actionable ways of thinking about business models.
🌈 Learn how to take a positive scheming mindset to create and build upon community growth.
🌈 A Notion resource of Code of Conducts to inspire you to create your own.
🌈 Notes and recording from our Community Discovery Collective Meetup
🌈 In community we focus alot on the inputs, however the outputs is where the magic happens!
🌈 You've heard of free and paid communities, but what about freemium communities?
👋 Hello everyone. I'm Michael Hall and I will be your guide in Rosieland today. I want to start
🌈 Looking for community podcasts? We've curated and actively maintain a list for you.
Capture community as a community discovery process. ❤️
Many of us know about building in public, but what about building in community? The lines between them are blurry,
👋 Hello everyone. I'm Matt Mecham and today I will be your Rosieland guide. It feels that every other
I recently experienced something in a community that has stuck with me. I can't forget it.
The world is incredibly influencer-y.
I'm using Substack as an example as I personally classify it as a tool that is great for
Communities do a lot of good work, but often don't get the credit for it. This is a
👋 Hello everyone. I'm Kourosh and I will be your guide in Rosieland today. I've been thinking
The future of community building relies on community discovery. This is an introductory guide to what it is and why it matters.
The community industry has a problem and it comes in the form of an unbalanced emphasis on "engagement"
Community activities are the things people do within community. This is a list of activities I've been creating for the courses I've been doing and I plan to continue curating.
This is your one-stop guide to everything you need to know about community flywheels.
Community pairing, for me, is coming together to do things as a pair. However, when we build community we can expand this concept to have a wider reach too.
A phrase that is often thrown about these days is 'community first'. I'd like us to consider taking a little step back and encourage conversations before community. So really I'm thinking — it should be conversation first, not community first.
In this presentation, I dive into the concept of Community Marketing — as community builders we need to develop strategies to promote and grow our communities separate to how the entire business may operate.
The future of education and personal development is in community of practices. I'm 10000000% convinced. Though the path
I was speaking to someone recently who has had a few stop-start situations with their community — as in they are
I started The Indiependent community recently. It's still early days yet, we are six weeks in, but signs
Rosie loves posting questions on Twitter. This is a collection of them. ❤️
One thing I've been thinking about recently is how our understanding of our members impacts how we can
Rosie and I have taken on a sort of bonkers challenge — 100 days of Twitter spaces, and today was one
We’re facing an exciting time in the community industry. New challenges arise as interest grows in the work we
We're going on a community journey. We're going to create a special one. What a beautiful
As a community builder finding people who will really participate in a community is hard. I'm a member
I'm always thinking about tools. I'm not coming here with solutions, just my rambling thoughts.
Community debt is real. It is where you prioritize community activities that will later impact the community experience in the
As we go into 2022, let us think of sustainable and healthy ways to build community. Even more so as
One of the biggest complaints I hear about communities are that they are too noisy — members enter a community, try
The future of education is in community. I'm convinced. Now I just need to prove it. 😅 I'
I'm a bit of an avid reader and have been told I have divergent interests more than once
When we think of communities — we often think about new communities I'm curious to know, what communities have
Thanks to Mark for sharing about Roblox, it gave me the nudge to write some notes about it, a habit
Erin and I just hosted a Twitter Space on the Meh-taverse vs IRL.
Much of my thoughts around community are inspired from what I find through 'rosie research'. Here's
I've been thinking a lot recently about community debt and how this can be a more considered part
As a community builder who has been diving into the web3 area three months ago, I want to share some
Steve Jobs put product before profit, Rosie puts community before profit.
ℹ️ Updated July 2023 👋I recently updated Rosieland membership to include Lifetime access to the community and events. I used
I had been thinking about what it means to design a community. Some people say community can't be
I jumped onto a Social Audio 101 Twitter Space, it was really good with lots of takeaways. Let me know
What is the community creator economy? The community creator economy is a subsection of the creator economy that specifically focuses
In community, we often say to do things that don't scale. To start small. To get the foundations
Moving beyond the Parasocial For many, our goal online is to appear relatable, approachable even. It’s the reason celebrities
I'm a slow thinker and this is a big reason why I believe Communities of Practice are perfect
We've all probably heard of User Generated Content and have likely dropped that term in ourselves in our
I had been thinking about creativity and community recently and how I feel the two go hand in hand. When
Visuals are a great way to communicate ideas and concepts. The iceberg metaphor has certainly done the internet rounds, there&
So you want to be a community creator — but first, what's your community product? Understanding what works as
I get asked this question a lot. For some reason we think community is different when it comes to money.
Here's my Rosie thought of the day.
In the evolution of the internet: let's make sure we're building an inclusive one. As we
Recently I've been thinking about the community experience of entering a community. Often when we think about community,
In Web 2, the profit of well-run communities does not go to the owners, it is distributed with care and
For those of you who don’t know — I am neurodiverse. I see a specialist twice a month who focuses
👋 Hello, this is the first of a series of guides on important topics for community builders. In the product and
You may or may not know, I have a not so secret love for flywheels. One thing I've
There are some things I believe with conviction. And this is one of them. It is what drives me every
It's no secret that community is hot. 🔥 In days gone by, people would respond to a trend by
I've been curating content for a long long time. Before it was even called curation, I was curating.
So, I've been tweeting about an idea of 'Monthly Recurring Relationships' as some kind of community
One thing I'm trying out these days is live note-taking at events we host at Orbit. I'
When we think about community and the seduction (or pressure) for growth, how can we create mental models to help
Rosie asked me to share this story that I shared on Twitter originally, and who am I to say no
I stumbled upon this article this week — a sort of reflection and action statement to Finite and Infinite Games, and
Do you ever feel, just.... tired? And you want to be an introvert and not talk to anyone? (wow, you&
This past week, many organizations jumped into action given recent NCAA rule changes, but what does this mean for the
I've spoken about visions and not ideas in the past and how important it is to work towards
When I think of what drew me to various communities: it is the shared experiences of joy and discovery. Whether
So, I've been thinking about what makes good communities recently. (Shocking, I know!) One of the things on
Starting a community is overwhelming. Think of how it feels for you, as the builder or founder. So many things
Often, our ambitions get in the way of real community building. We dream of big things. Of how the world
“I have a bad feeling about this…” To most people, this is a phrase that you wouldn’t think twice
Why? It allows for more relationships and nuance than we currently have in our media environment. Through the power of
I've never liked the job title 'community manager', but until recently it felt like there weren&
It's true, community can't be contained to a single forum, chat, or event. It often lives
This post is Monica Lent inspired. 🙌
"Convincing someone to change their mind is really the process of convincing someone to change their tribe. If they
One of the biggest questions and challenges of communities is deciding what brings value. Without value, people naturally won'
The Rosieland crew was chatting in our internal Rosieland Slack, when Rosie captured and tweeted one of my off-the-cuff comments:
Ok, I know community is the new 🔥hot 🔥 cool thing. Everyone wants community. It's the new marketing, apparently.
These days, when we think of the community creator economy, we often think of a newsletter’s slack channel, a
A whole list of books related to the art and science of community building.
Let's talk about building community strategies that support an organizations people (the team), programs (from marketing to education)
I wrote recently about obsession of being community-first and thought it would be worth diving more specifically into to the
As much as I love community building, I'm here to be a skeptic too. With all the hype
We’re almost midway through our Rosieland Community Building cohort and we thought the results of a collaboration activity would
I've been aware of, and been an (admittedly inactive) member of Elpha for a while now. I knew
The whole thing of ‘validating an idea’ is thrown around so much in the startup and indie world. I nodded
Communities aren’t something that should be taken lightly — while yes, communities can be glorious, happy places to be, if
I had strong ethics when building up Ministry of Testing and always felt uncomfortable asking people to do stuff without
Team Rosie here (Ali, Danielle, Erin, Leo). We’re so proud of Rosie Sherry—she continually shows us what courage,
Earlier this week, Danielle asked an important question about the topics we don’t talk about enough in community building:
Or how I built a minimum viable community for indie women. Sometimes I just have to write on the spur
There’s certainly an art to community building and much of it comes down to the sheer intention of ‘studying
2020 was huge for the world of community building, and it honestly feels great that the world is starting to
A peek at how I use Notion to never run out of things to share. One of the biggest challenges
I love this, and also admittedly had to read it several times.
I'm really impressed with Discourse's Recommendations for Tough Conversations that they created for their community and
In community we need to be connecting and creating paths with people constantly. To be talked about in a positive
My early teen years I spent obsessing over Lily Allen; updating my MySpace profile to reflect hers, packing in an
I grew up in rural Idaho—camping, hiking, and exploring in the world was second nature. The number one principle
2020 is so full of 💩 I think back to pre-COVID life and realize how easy everything was in comparison to
"Slack sucks for communities." "I can't bear another Facebook group." "Forums are so
Updated September 6th 2022. When I think about building communities I like to check my thinking alongside other community building
You want to get good at building community, but don't know how? Here's an idea, build
Updated September 2021 On thinking about designing communities with lurkers in mind. As community builders, I feel like lurkers tend
Some current thoughts on the state of building communities and businesses. This post is a result of a conversation I
Increasingly, communities are the larger parts of the marketing ecosystem, becoming one of the trending topics as of late. But
We live in a world where we expect and demand answers. People come searching for answers and blueprints, but leave
The other day I was reminded of what I often preach: be kind and rosie in everything you do. Those
I don't know about you, but I cannot escape all the talk of digital gardens. It feels like
Stumbling upon communities brings people all kinds of opportunities, discoveries and real happiness for people. The more communities we create,
Have you heard of the idea of a 'productized service'? First, imagine you run a consultancy or agency
Hey everyone. My name is Rosie Sherry and I’m an introvert. 😅 When I was young I would literally not
I noticed today that Airtable use Discourse for their community. They also use it as a way to announce and
Covid has brought on a new wave of focus on building communities. Alongside this is a strong interest in paid
Today I want to address a trend! 🎉 Newsletters everywhere can be communities! 🎉
My early days of community building were very much influenced by marketeers and the social web. These days I’m
When you are challenged with growing your community, consider how you can get the word out by creating a '
"Rosie! I want to start a community. Tell me, what should I do?" And I be like.
I’ve been stumbling upon flywheels recently, mostly in the context of marketing and business building and it (naturally!) got
I don’t know about you, but covid has made me rethink so much about community. And especially what community
All too often I see people dive in head first into building communities. Often on impulse without fully understanding what
This is a reflection on my years doing events as part of my community building efforts. The world has definitely
Life is wild. Exciting. And tough all in one. I literally do not know how time is flying by. How
So this question comes up often. Would love to know the thoughts around communities being on Instagram. I don'
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