The community engagement trap

The community industry has a problem and it comes in the form of an unbalanced emphasis on "engagement"

Community StrategyMetrics

Community activities — the things we do in community

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.

Community GuidesCommunity Design

A handful of micro-communities

ReflectionCommunity StrategyCommunity Business

The future of publishing is focusing on slow and community driven growth

ReflectionCommunity Growth

The end matters

ReflectionCommunity Design

I never planned 100+ meetups across the globe

Community StrategyCommunity Examples

The Future of Community

Reflection

Empowering people.

ReflectionCommunity Leadership

A guide to community flywheels

This is your one-stop guide to everything you need to know about community flywheels.

Community FlywheelsCommunity GuidesCommunity Growth

No one framework

FrameworksReflection

Community pairing as a strategy

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.

Building BlocksCommunity StrategyCommunity Design

Conversations before community

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.

ConversationsStarting

Community Marketing [Recording + Slides]

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.

Community GrowthCommunity Guides

Let's Build a Culture of Valuing Community Experience

The future of education and personal development is in community of practices. I'm 10000000% convinced. Though the path

Community DesignCommunity as EducationCareers and Self Development

To start a community, create a surround system

I was speaking to someone recently who has had a few stop-start situations with their community — as in they

Community DiscoveryStartingCommunity Growth

Come for the community, stay for the Community Cam

I started The Indiependent community recently. It's still early days yet, we are six weeks in, but signs

Community StrategyCommunity Examples

Communities are transformational

ReflectionCommunity Design

Rosie's Community Questions

Rosie loves posting questions on Twitter. This is a collection of them. ❤️

Community Guides

How can we be more intentional about enabling member discovery?

One thing I've been thinking about recently is how our understanding of our members impacts how we can

Community Design

Reflections on Building in Public with Arvid Kahl

Rosie and I have taken on a sort of bonkers challenge — 100 days of Twitter spaces, and today was one

Open Community

Community growth specialists are the future of community

We’re facing an exciting time in the community industry. New challenges arise as interest grows in the work we

Community GrowthCareers and Self Development

🔍 We're Going on a Community Journey

We're going on a community journey. We're going to create a special one. What a beautiful

Community Design

I started a community where you get kicked for inactivity

As a community builder finding people who will really participate in a community is hard. I'm a member

Open Community

Maybe it's time to bundle things up again

I'm always thinking about tools. I'm not coming here with solutions, just my rambling thoughts.

Community BusinessCommunity StrategyTools and Tech