🌧 Good day from Rosieland!
🏘 What’s your go-to definition of community?
I came across this definition of community a few days ago and something about it stuck with me.
The definition of a community has a stable, clear definition in social science. Knowing this definition makes it very obvious what you need to care about, build, and measure. I'm not saying don't have your own definition, but I am saying don't ignore 80 years of social science. pic.twitter.com/nyQqjxyyAO
— SociallyConstructed.Online | Community Architect (@The_SCMS) September 23, 2022
Partly I love the focus on a well-defined unit of culture, but it also doesn't mention the less tangible aspects of relationships, belonging and connections and instead builds upon shared aspects which are more tangible.
👉 I've started a discussion on this, let's talk about this on The Village forum.
🌈 What we've been sprinkling at Rosieland
- The Input Output Community Funnel
- How to start & run a collective?
- In 2023, what are some of the things you plan to start, stop, continue, and test with your community?
📰 Rosieland Roundup
- From 6,000 to 60: Why We're Downsizing Our Community On Purpose — a great example of more is less.
- Focusing on doing less as a Community builder — by Max Pete
- Reddit Mod Education — I always love seeing how others curate and educate members, this is one such and new example.
- Pluralistic: 19 Sep 2022 How to ditch Facebook without ditching your friends – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow — The question I ponder a lot, how do we get people participating in independent communities over the likes of Facebook?
- The Art of Re-Gathering | Priya Parker — From the recent CMX Summit (also check the YouTube channel for a bunch of other talks)
- Discord starts rolling out new Forum Channels to help organize conversations — I'm curious to see this in action. 👀
🐦 Tweets
A role I don't think #cmgrs recognize they fill - you're the history keepers of your community.
— Shannon Emery (@llamasayswhat) September 19, 2022
You may remember moments, events, names, feelings, the lows, the highs, & so on.
You definitely remember the people & that's where the history comes from.
Can't be mad at it.
A common mistake brands make in building communities is only encouraging conversation that's directly related to the brand.
— Noele Flowers (@NoeleFlowers) September 20, 2022
But, the good stuff usually lives in the "overlap" that members have *with each other* that has nothing to do wit your brand. Examples 🧵
Slack canvas has officially entered the chat! 🤩
— Slack (@SlackHQ) September 21, 2022
Read the backstory on this new feature announced at Dreamforce. ⬇️
I worked on an Activity Hierarchy in Communities model, to determine where the focus should be when building community products. pic.twitter.com/jNeYFaMc12
— Andu 🇺🇦 (@andupotorac) September 25, 2022
"Your vibe attracts your tribe". Clare talking about finding your allies ❤️@ClareCatherine6 #TestBash
— Melissa Fisher (@fishouthebox) September 23, 2022
There are three financial community models.
— Rosie Sherry (@rosiesherry) September 26, 2022
People seem to talk about free and paid communities, but often omit a crucial community model:
The Freemium Community.
It's a mixture of free and paid communities. pic.twitter.com/sZsMw1mOan
The community allowed me to build much deeper connections with my readers – I can put names on faces, and I have a better idea of what kind of content would be interesting/helpful to them
— Anne-Laure Le Cunff (@anthilemoon) September 21, 2022
