How can we build better communities?

Is advocating a community prerequisite?

This is a Milly Tamati inspired post, where she described the hard yet important work of advocating: Part of the

Community is the Business

Community is at the heart of everything I do. To be community-led is to have community at the center of

Watch out for the community ideas trap

☀️ One of the wonderful things about community are all the amazing possibilities. There are so many things we could do!

Community Challenge 2: Distribute your conversations

We talk a lot about distributed community, or the of idea of 'community is everywhere'. We talk less about the

The Hell Yeah or No of Community Principles

I recently shared an example of what I referenced as community guidelines in the format of 'Yes' and 'No'. It

Community Challenge 1 - The Hell Yeah and No Community Principles Worksheet

About this Community Challenge: Required reading: The Hell Yeah and No Community Principles. Off the back of the article, I

Prototyping in community

👋Hello. My name is Rosie and I'm guilty of doing community things without properly thinking them through. There is no

Have we forgotten the humanity behind our online community actions?

A short post from me during a busy, positive yet hard week. I'm reflecting on a moment we had at

Citation as a community building practice

Have we fallen out of love with the currency of citation? I’ve been trying to place my finger on

Exploring scenius

Are we all a product of our communal efforts? I stumbled across the concept of scenius a while back and

How community debt hinders our progress

When we look at community through the lense of a community flywheel, anything that stops, slows or hinders our community

Are you talking into the void?

Are you even a community builder if you haven't sent out a message and all you heard were crickets? We

One month into our Rosieland community migration

A community migration very much feels like creating a home. You have an idea of how things will look. Where

A Curated Guide to Community Care

🐰 I fell down a rabbit hole and resurfaced two days later with a curated guide on Notion. The world talks

The Art of the Community Cross-Post

There's nothing like a good old community migration to get me to re-think how to build community. One such thing

Some ways I enjoy "teaching" in community

I've been designing Glitter, the Rosieland "community space" and I love approaching community with a learning focus. Here's what I'm

🏖 Let's meet at the Rosieland Retreat

We're going on a one-day Rosieland Retreat. I've been in procrastination and social anxiety mode on this for over a

Reframing what scaling a community means

For my Rosieland efforts, I feel it is part of my duty to question the status quo. Just because something

🌈 How to Build a Parallel Community

Creating a Parallel Community means investing into building and replicating your community culture in distributed channels, or locations other than your main 'community home'.

How Andy Claremont leads product communities

We continue our Rosieland Community Interview series with Andy Claremont, Head of Community at Glide. Glide makes it easy to

We learn by processing

Community is a key and missing part of product discovery.

The deeper I dive into the world of community, the more conviction I have in the power of what communities

The Town Hall Analogy

When I get talking to people about community and problems I see existing in the world, I often bring up

It's not about ROI. It's about making it make business sense

I don't know about you, but the term "ROI in Community" freaks me out. I don't know how to deal