[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

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!

Should we create pods instead of community?

How do your people actually like to show up?

Product X Community Thinking

Community Challenge 2: Distribute your conversations

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

Women and diversity in communities

The Pac-man Rule / Open Circle Principle

Flippin' community models

Do your community surveys lack diversity?

The perfect community tool is...

The Hell Yeah or No of Community Principles

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

In community, shared ideas are perhaps more important than the relationships made

Community has too much emphasis on relationships

The question shouldn't be "what do we automate?”

🔦 The Community Torch

Communities need boundaries too

Prototyping in community

👋Hello. My name is Rosie and I'm guilty of doing community things without properly thinking them through. There

Community, conversations and feedback can happen anywhere

Use the mute button with intention

The Chatham House Rule

Community members become more valuable over time

We just need to think of a local village and the elders who live in it. We can then start

Grow your community like a beat of the drum

"Community Thinking" is the easy part

Is it as simple as Yes or 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

Get creative with a wheel of emotions

Talking to customers

Invest into an ecosystem, not just a community

Without action, community conversations weigh us down

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

Level up your community map

17 Rules for a Sustainable Local Community

Use notifications to encourage action

Are your events wasting people's time?

Exploring scenius

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

Do this instead of a survey

Ask the same question in many different locations

Conversation is important, but constant conversation is dangerous

We can all learn to pass the mic

Create digestible summaries

How do you facilitate turn-taking in community conversations?

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

See it, say it

Wherever people come, community naturally arises

The 80/20 conversations rule of community

When we think about building community we can fall into the trap of overly focusing on conversations. This doesn’t

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

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

Some ways I enjoy "teaching" in community

I've been designing Glitter, the Rosieland "community space" and I love approaching community with a learning

🏖 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

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&

How Marie Poulin went from designer to Notion Mastery community founder

We continue our Rosieland Community Interview series with Marie Poulin founder of Notion Mastery.  Notion Mastery is a hybrid course

Services as a Community Business Model

🙏 A big thanks to Chauntelle Lewis, Stephanie Baiocchi, Karina Mikhli, Sara Saunders, Val Mercandante and Camile Silva for attending and

How Dru Riley went from software developer to Trends Pro community founder

We continue our Rosieland Community Interview series with Dru Riley, Founder of Trends.vc and the Trends Pro Community.  Trends

Would you rather?

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.

Offer digestible summaries

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.

How do you facilitate turn taking in community conversations?

Turn-taking is where people speak one at a time, it sounds simplistic, but this approach can be adapted to the communities we build.

How Lexi Kakis leads the Uncovered Community for unsolved missing and murder cases

Next up in our Rosieland Community Interview series we connected with Lexi Kakis, Community Engagement Manager for the Uncovered Community.

LinkedIn Audio Spaces as a Community Strategy

This is a story about kickstarting LinkedIn audio spaces in Rosieland. I'm sharing what I'm doing

Five things community builders can do to battle the myth of self-sustaining communities

Design for Belonging: a Notion resource

Welcome to my belonging and othering notes from the book Design for Belonging by Susie Wise. Please check out the

Learning to follow conversations meticulously

We do research before starting businesses, it would be daft not to! It doesn't guarantee success, but it

See it, say it

A community tactic to help us take action on what people feel and need.

Making following conversations easy, a Substack example.

How Taylor Harrington turned a lifetime of community building into a Head of Community role

We continue our Rosieland Community Interview series with Taylor Harrington, Community Manager for Groove. Groove is a social app bringing

Nothing stands still and the need for a continuous community approach

Community builders should stop seeking permission and feedback

Host > Hero

The world is incredibly influencer-y.

Content probably matters more than we think

On platforms doing the heavy marketing lifting

I'm using Substack as an example as I personally classify it as a tool that is great for

We need more examples of independent and sustainable communities

These days I feel better about building in community rather than building-in-public

Valuing conversation

A handful of micro-communities

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

The end matters

I never planned 100+ meetups across the globe

The Future of Community

Empowering people.

No one framework

Communities are transformational

🧹 Some things you can tidy up in your community

Community debt is real. It is where you prioritize community activities that will later impact the community experience in the

A quick look at Spotify Greenroom

Don't steal attention. Create what is right.

As we go into 2022, let us think of sustainable and healthy ways to build community. Even more so as

Communities are too noisy

One of the biggest complaints I hear about communities are that they are too noisy — members enter a community, try

Learning in community — an introduction

The future of education is in community. I'm convinced. Now I just need to prove it. 😅 I'

Exploring Obsidian as a community knowledge management tool

I'm a bit of an avid reader and have been told I have divergent interests more than once

What communities have you been in a long while?

When we think of communities — we often think about new communities I'm curious to know, what communities have

Roblox has no ethics as a company and a community

Thanks to Mark for sharing about Roblox, it gave me the nudge to write some notes about it, a habit

Keeping it real with the meh-taverse

Erin and I just hosted a Twitter Space on the Meh-taverse vs IRL.

NFTs feel like (expensive) growth hacks.

Retraining ourselves in community

Much of my thoughts around community are inspired from what I find through 'rosie research'. Here's

Tackling community debt — What if we kicked out inactive community members?

I've been thinking a lot recently about community debt and how this can be a more considered part

Building Web3 Communities in Discord

As a community builder who has been diving into the web3 area three months ago, I want to share some

Creating a mindset of community before profit

Steve Jobs put product before profit, Rosie puts community before profit.

Community is the way

Building a Community on Lifetime Membership

ℹ️ Updated July 2023 👋I recently updated Rosieland membership to include Lifetime access to the community and events. I used

Social Audio 101 - A Twitter Space Discussion

I jumped onto a Social Audio 101 Twitter Space, it was really good with lots of takeaways. Let me know

A Guide to the Community Creator Economy

What is the community creator economy? The community creator economy is a subsection of the creator economy that specifically focuses

How we are at the small scale is how we are at the large scale

In community, we often say to do things that don't scale. To start small. To get the foundations

What should Web 3 communities be called?

Moving beyond the parasocial

Moving beyond the Parasocial For many, our goal online is to appear relatable, approachable even. It’s the reason celebrities

Communities of Practice as a perfect place to grow and learn

I'm a slow thinker and this is a big reason why I believe Communities of Practice are perfect

Community Generated Content instead of User Generated Content

We've all probably heard of User Generated Content and have likely dropped that term in ourselves in our

Perhaps the goal for communities is to become relevant

I had been thinking about creativity and community recently and how I feel the two go hand in hand. When

The Community Building Iceberg

Visuals are a great way to communicate ideas and concepts. The iceberg metaphor has certainly done the internet rounds, there&

What is your community product?

So you want to be a community creator — but first, what's your community product? Understanding what works as

How do you make money with communities?

I get asked this question a lot. For some reason we think community is different when it comes to money.

In community, consider Lifetime Commitment (LTC) instead of Lifetime Value (LTV)

Here's my Rosie thought of the day.

In the evolution of the internet: let's make sure we're building an inclusive one

In the evolution of the internet: let's make sure we're building an inclusive one. As we

Community Entry Points

Recently I've been thinking about the community experience of entering a community. Often when we think about community,

Web 2 community profits do not all go to the founders

In Web 2, the profit of well-run communities does not go to the owners, it is distributed with care and

Positive reinforcement flywheels driving community habits

For those of you who don’t know — I am neurodiverse. I see a specialist twice a month who focuses

Creating a paid community flywheel with diverse pathways

You may or may not know, I have a not so secret love for flywheels. One thing I've

The need for new frameworks, models and ways of thinking

There are some things I believe with conviction. And this is one of them. It is what drives me every

Most people lie when they say they want community

It's no secret that community is hot. 🔥 In days gone by, people would respond to a trend by

Curation is only as good as its maintenance

I've been curating content for a long long time. Before it was even called curation, I was curating.

Monthly Recurring Relationships (MRR)

So, I've been tweeting about an idea of 'Monthly Recurring Relationships' as some kind of community

Live note taking — a value driven community build tactic

One thing I'm trying out these days is live note-taking at events we host at Orbit. I'

Community growth comes from repeatability

When we think about community and the seduction (or pressure) for growth, how can we create mental models to help

How my Community Initiatives team runs no-code experiments that drive real, statistically significant results

Rosie asked me to share this story that I shared on Twitter originally, and who am I to say no

Be an infinite community player

I stumbled upon this article this week — a sort of reflection and action statement to Finite and Infinite Games, and

The relationships you have — boundaries as community builders

Do you ever feel, just.... tired? And you want to be an introvert and not talk to anyone? (wow, you&

Athletes will lead the Community Creator Economy

This past week, many organizations jumped into action given recent NCAA rule changes, but what does this mean for the

The goal of community is not engagement

I've spoken about visions and not ideas in the past and how important it is to work towards

Joyful spaces to discover together. 💭✨

When I think of what drew me to various communities: it is the shared experiences of joy and discovery. Whether

Start virtual, with a goal to meet in real life

Are forums inherently a bad way to build real community?

So, I've been thinking about what makes good communities recently. (Shocking, I know!) One of the things on

Develop a rhythm that is right for you and your community

Starting a community is overwhelming. Think of how it feels for you, as the builder or founder. So many things

When building community, go narrow and deep

Often, our ambitions get in the way of real community building. We dream of big things. Of how the world

The Future of the Community Creator Economy

“I have a bad feeling about this…” To most people, this is a phrase that you wouldn’t think twice

Media organizations should become more reliant on not only membership, but also community as more than just a business model: it’s a way of functioning as well.

Why? It allows for more relationships and nuance than we currently have in our media environment. Through the power of

The future of professional community roles

I've never liked the job title 'community manager', but until recently it felt like there weren&

Community is everywhere, but is it in your user experience?

It's true, community can't be contained to a single forum, chat, or event. It often lives

Try starting with a micro-community

This post is Monica Lent inspired. 🙌

What comes first? Persuasion or Community?

"Convincing someone to change their mind is really the process of convincing someone to change their tribe. If they

Communities bring opportunities

One of the biggest questions and challenges of communities is deciding what brings value. Without value, people naturally won'

Change my mind: Marketing should report to community

The Rosieland crew was chatting in our internal Rosieland Slack, when Rosie captured and tweeted one of my off-the-cuff comments:

Calling 'Community' the 'New Marketing' is an offense to our profession

Ok, I know community is the new 🔥hot 🔥 cool thing. Everyone wants community. It's the new marketing, apparently.

Nomadlist is paying $5k per month for Slack

The role YouTubers, streamers, and gamers played in the community creator economy

These days, when we think of the community creator economy, we often think of a newsletter’s slack channel, a

Supporting People, Programs, and Products with Community

Let's talk about building community strategies that support an organizations people (the team), programs (from marketing to education)

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 the

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

A mindset of starting afresh

2020 is so full of 💩 I think back to pre-COVID life and realize how easy everything was in comparison to

Stop blaming the tools

"Slack sucks for communities." "I can't bear another Facebook group." "Forums are so

Getting better at community building, one tiny habit at a time

You want to get good at building community, but don't know how? Here's an idea, build

Lurkers are people too 😅

Updated September 2021 On thinking about designing communities with lurkers in mind. As community builders, I feel like lurkers tend

Rituals as a foundation of community marketing

Community is dead, long live community!

Some current thoughts on the state of building communities and businesses. This post is a result of a conversation I

The Power of Building Communities with Questions

We live in a world where we expect and demand answers. People come searching for answers and blueprints, but leave

TikTok showed a different way to create a community

Building community with kindness

The other day I was reminded of what I often preach: be kind and rosie in everything you do. Those

Building a community digital garden

I don't know about you, but I cannot escape all the talk of digital gardens. It feels like

Communities help people stumble upon happiness

Stumbling upon communities brings people all kinds of opportunities, discoveries and real happiness for people. The more communities we create,

Lurk as a Service

Have you heard of the idea of a 'productized service'? First, imagine you run a consultancy or agency

Building a community with introverts in mind

Hey everyone. My name is Rosie Sherry and I’m an introvert. 😅 When I was young I would literally not

Use your forum as a blog

I noticed today that Airtable use Discourse for their community. They also use it as a way to announce and

Messy and fragmented paid communities

Covid has brought on a new wave of focus on building communities. Alongside this is a strong interest in paid

Building community with email and newsletters

Today I want to address a trend! 🎉 Newsletters everywhere can be communities! 🎉

You, your community, and all the content

My early days of community building were very much influenced by marketeers and the social web. These days I’m

Mirror Your Community Flywheel

When you are challenged with growing your community, consider how you can get the word out by creating a '

How to start a community

"Rosie! I want to start a community. Tell me, what should I do?" And I be like.

Adding value by doing things together

I don’t know about you, but covid has made me rethink so much about community. And especially what community

First Study Your People

All too often I see people dive in head first into building communities. Often on impulse without fully understanding what

Events as core to building community

This is a reflection on my years doing events as part of my community building efforts. The world has definitely

Everything takes longer than you expect

Life is wild. Exciting. And tough all in one. I literally do not know how time is flying by. How

Can you create community in places like Instagram?

So this question comes up often. Would love to know the thoughts around communities being on Instagram. I don'

Creating a community container

If you can’t create an entire digital community garden, how about a container? The best community builders are often