Before you start a community

I wrote recently about obsession of being community-first and thought it would be worth diving more specifically into to

It doesn't have to be community-first

As much as I love community building, I'm here to be a skeptic too. With all the hype

Building a Brand Community Strategy

200+ Minimum Viable Community Ideas (MVC)

We’re almost midway through our Rosieland Community Building cohort and we thought the results of a collaboration activity would

Recruiting as a business model

I've been aware of, and been an (admittedly inactive) member of Elpha for a while now. I knew

A community vision is better than a community idea

The whole thing of ‘validating an idea’ is thrown around so much in the startup and indie world. I nodded

What we can learn from Communities Gone Wild

Communities aren’t something that should be taken lightly — while yes, communities can be glorious, happy places to be, if

Just because you run a community focused business, it doesn't mean you can't pay people who help you build it.

I had strong ethics when building up Ministry of Testing and always felt uncomfortable asking people to do stuff without

Seven lessons from a legend: Big news gave us some big insights

Team Rosie here (Ali, Danielle, Erin, Leo). We’re so proud of Rosie Sherry—she continually shows us what courage,

Helping you think through your community onboarding process

Earlier this week, Danielle asked an important question about the topics we don’t talk about enough in community building:

Get past the introductions — Or how I built a minimum viable community for indie women

Or how I built a minimum viable community for indie women. Sometimes I just have to write on the spur

How I handed over my community 😭

Good community builders know how to tag

There’s certainly an art to community building and much of it comes down to the sheer intention of ‘studying

The 7 steps to validating your community

2020 was huge for the world of community building, and it honestly feels great that the world is starting to

My current approach to content creating and note taking with community in mind

A peek at how I use Notion to never run out of things to share. One of the biggest challenges

Pool, hub, and web framework for communities

What Google can teach us about building belonging

The Self Heuristic ❤️

I love this, and also admittedly had to read it several times.

Discourse's Recommendations for Tough Conversations - and what we can pull from it for community moderation.

I'm really impressed with Discourse's Recommendations for Tough Conversations that they created for their community and

Pairagraph — An interesting way to host conversations

Subscriptions are the community dream—the reality is often different

Help your people feel like they belong by talking about them.

In community we need to be connecting and creating paths with people constantly. To be talked about in a positive

What community builders can learn from superfans

My early teen years I spent obsessing over Lily Allen; updating my MySpace profile to reflect hers, packing in an

How to be a good community member

I grew up in rural Idaho—camping, hiking, and exploring in the world was second nature. The number one principle