Rosieland Roundup 144 — Give the gift of the homepage

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The real community value is through giving on the homepage

How would you feel if you got a spot on a really high traffic website? I would like to think it would make your day, week, month or year!

Highlighting members is a much underrated 'tactic' in community building and I think we don't take it nearly far enough. It's not just about talking about people, it's about doing it in a really impactful way.

Smashing Magazine invests in the ecosystem and do it well in a community section on their home page:

• they highlight members
• they curate their content
• they link directly to the source rather than try to keep them always on their website
• people get mentioned in their Tweets to almost 1 million followers

This is the stuff that keeps members coming back, supporting and focusing on creating real value back to the community and the ecosystem.

🌈 This week in Rosieland

Our forum has been getting hot, a bit like the weather. 💦

• I'm building a portfolio of communities [paid article]
• Is community an illusion?
• Do we need a healthy dose of realism in the community space?
• What community metrics do you actually care about?
• Circle, Mighty Networks, Tribe and …?
• What are specific things you have done to support, uplift and transform your community members?
• Ghost + Cove for community engagement?

📰 The Rosieland Roundup

• Building at the speed of belonging... surviving the speed of catastrophe — Brian Stout
• ✨ Cozy in the Crowd — New_ Public
• Great engineering cultures are built on social learning communities — Joy Liuzzo
• Discourse releases chat 👀

🐦 Tweets

👋 I'm taking a break from this weekly newsletter for a couple of weeks, I'll be back soon!