5 ways AI is causing problems with community

I'm all for AI, but also there are real problems that it brings to our communities. I'

Why should the social networks have all the fun?

Architecture designed with community in mind

The Community Channel Creation Funnel

My last post was about how community channels can be prototypes of other work we end up producing.

Community channels as prototypes

Looking at channels with an action focused mindset can help us move our communities forward with greater clarity.

Do we really know best? Learning from community centered journalism.

One of the things I've been striving to do is learn from how others do community. Often the

Never has it ever been so important to...

...get out there and do the work locally.

Community flywheels build upon what complement each other

Distractions and short-term thinking are red flags when we build communities.

Fandom is wonderful. Fandom is ugly.

We often fall into the trap of believing that the one thing is the answer. And often this turns into

Lost connection

Making every interaction count

In a world that is constantly interacting. Where we are measured, obsessed, and judged based on engagement. Where we need

Networks that support communities

Data-Driven Community Quilting

I love this idea of Data-Driven Community Quilting so much.

The future of AI is (potentially) about clever connection

Community growing pains

A space of sustainable permanence

Let's have a quick look at a local creative community space.

Community needs good communication

Community is confidently moving toward the niches

The world of community is changing and it's exciting to observe. The loneliness epidemic is real, the way

The Community Search Engine Mindset

As part of Community Discovery we focus on learning and discovering. I've written about many angles of this

The Fediverse Shift

The Fediverse is not new, but there's been a recent and increased shift towards its adoption. For me,

The Power of Two

A lesson in the power of how we think about conversations with two.

Community Curiosity as a Service

The world changes. We change. Our needs change. I started Rosieland in 2020, that wonderful start of the pandemic year.

Backstage community

We have a problem in the community industry where all too often the emphasis of our work is placed within

The Foundations of Community Emergence

In my last article wrote about emergent community processes and how the only way I know how to build communities

🌶️ Make Slacks and communities quiet again

Emergent community processes

It's impossible to fully plan for community as many of the growth and opportunities happen in an emergent

⏱️ Community Clockwork

You know I love community flywheels, right? I'm always looking for new ways to look at community design

Community without the name

Much of my writing these days is inspired by what I'm doing at my current role (Founder + CEO)

Community Examples — 003

Shipping over sharing

🚢 I've often fallen into the trap of sharing over shipping, is this a common thing in community? I

12 ways I'm thinking about community right now

My thinking and feelings about community are constantly changing, as they should. The market has changed. The world is changing.

Using Slack for what it is meant for

The three stages of emotions for community meetups:

Community Memory Management

What’s a regret you have with your community? One of mine is not giving enough attention to the idea

Strategies for dealing with community negativity

Are your decisions community compatible?

A while back I asked myself if the decisions we were making were community compatible and the phrase struck with

Space + Place = Community

The Spectrum of Community Reach

Community = Care

Community Examples — 002

Fleeting Moments

Complaints

It's good to talk

Community is in a funny place

The pandemic has been 'interesting' for community and now as the world moves on and faces different challenges,

Community Examples — 001

👋 Hello, this is a new regular newsletter where I highlight 3️ community examples I have found during my community research.

Change the world by starting with where you live

On creating a community glossary

🌈 TLDR; How I'm thinking about creating a community glossary with intention. I'm so into community collaboration,

How would you map your scene?

Stop referring to the space where people hang out as "the community"

11 ways to find your community flow-wheel

One of the things I've been working on is aiming for a community flywheel that simply works. One

Community suffers from scientism

[Event] Community Business Models 2024: How to build a community that scales

Join us on Wednesday March 27th where Tatiana Figueiredo will share her latest thinking in building and growing a community

On developing the community profession

I love creating a good "community is not marketing" meme. It's how I end up expressing

The Community Algorithm

The algorithm's are everywhere. Most notably in search engines and social networks. We have become accustomed to them

Bulletin boards as links to the exciting

I'm concerned we design for addiction over addressing real needs

Stories as Community Discovery

Incase you didn't know, I have a thing about Community Discovery. Here's my current definition of

Why bringing people together in communities is not enough

Head, heart, hands

Co-creation and Value

False Start Community Flywheels

There's a phrase that I can never get sick of, it's the Community Flywheel. The concept

The next great division

Community Maps as a Model

Community is infrastructure

[Recording] Exploring Community Flywheels

In this event we had an open and facilitated discussion on the topic of Community Flywheels: * what are community flywheels?

Ask questions, continuously

What's your community's love language?

❤️ On creating a Community Love Language Statement. I've been listening to bell hooks, first her book on Belonging

Community is about the action taken...

Asking for and making best use of questions up front

Failing to see the community as volunteered market research

Paying attention to community aliveness

On the idea of "just keep going"

Create your own Slack Community Tracker

One of the things I've been working on is bringing awareness of all the little activities that are

Design (Community) from the Margins

Community work often doesn’t look like community building work

How I've been creating community content with community pain research

I'm having so much fun going down a community discovery focused approach to community building. I recently wrote

What makes a good community conversation?

Community Conversation Exploration

Exploring Community Conversations

We hosted a conversation on community conversations and captured the recording, transcript, summary and poll results.

Modelling real life: The Community Corkboard

Community requires research

What makes a good community question?

✨ I revamped the Rosieland Knowledgebase

🧹 I've been tidying a few things up and as part of this I've done a bit

From Ecosystem to Community

New Community Roles in Journalism

CPR - Community Pain Research

One of the ongoing perspectives that I'm developing with community building is that we are researchers. And having

Capturing in Community

The Butterfly Model: The 4 wings of social change

Leadership is community-driven

In the end, we envy connection, community and care

Find your people

Maybe don't call it a community

Build trust and the conversations will come

The BlackSpace Manifesto

Lack of physical presence isn't a limitation, it's a liberation

Continuous Community Polls

Much of our community work can often rely on sponsorship. This could be for your conferences, events or meetups. Your

Living is a communal

Expanding our emotions vocabulary

The F.A.S.T community-led approach to conference organizing

Practice culture with symbols, heroes and rituals

Looking at the same thing through a different lens

Is it community compatible?

Invest in community like you invest in your assets

Community is sort of like Goldilocks and the Three Bears. It’s hard to find the fit that’s JUUUST right.

I was recently chatting community with Nola Simon about community and she pointed me to her words on what she

The (many) definitions of community

A while back (in a previous Rosieland space that I ran) I posed the challenge of sharing a definition of

The best words in the world start with "co" 😊

What to say instead of "how are you?"

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

"Our" time is coming

Your core members

What does branding in community look like?

RSS: Read > Summarise > Share

What if we drew a map of our community?

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

Community comes and go, the connection stays

The best conversationalists are those who help others to talk

Is twelve the magic number of members for small groups?

Is building community really about problem solving?

We talk about community building in terms of connection, conversations, belonging, and relationships. But what if we talked about it

T.H.I.N.K before you speak