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️️😍 Is Google showing some love to forums?
A recent news article on Google creating a 'discussions and forum' to their search results was highlighted in the Rosieland forum, and it's got me all excited, even if it may be a bit premature.
I kind of feel forums are already coming back a bit, and I'm trying to do my bit to support this. I'm hoping that this change from Google will get people to start investing more in them...and perhaps focus less on chat-type spaces.
🌈 This week in Rosieland
- A Curated Guide to Community Code of Conducts
- Community Consultants: a directory of Community Consultants and Freelancers
- How would you measure “knowledge re-use” in your community?
- What creative things have you seen done or experimented with at in-person community events?
- Should Community be placed under Marketing?
- What’s your go-to definition of community?
🌻️ Community Consultant of the Week
📰 Rosieland Roundup
- The Commoner's Catalog for Changemaking - Commoners Catalog 📖
- All things incentive design - Emilie Kormienko
- Who Do You Belong To? - GapingVoid
- Product Community Mind The Product Sold to Pendo — They Got Acquired
- Forum Channels: A Space for Organized Conversations — Discord
- Running Developer Communities with Discord (Workshop) - CFE.dev
- Building a community of generalists on a remote island - Indie Bites + Milly Tamati
- Investing in Community for Your Business - Evan Hamilton at HubSpot
- All the Founders Around Me Were Raising Money — Here's Why I Didn't — Allison Esposito Medina
👩🏽💻 Jobs
- Head of Community - TikTok
- Community Builder - Malt
- Community & Engagement Specialist - UBS
🐦 Tweets
I’ve never seen a video so perfectly sum up the structural and cultural issues that have led Americans to be so lonely. So important.
— Elad Nehorai (@EladNehorai) September 28, 2022
1/2 pic.twitter.com/a8EpvA9kJ1
One interesting observation that has come up is that as community builders we look for ways to increase engagement/activity in our communities. However, for us when we join communities, we tend to gravitate toward the ones with less noise (from what I have heard + seen).
— Max Pete (@Max_Pete) October 2, 2022
This isn't just a Reddit-branded racecar - this is a car that the Reddit *community* sponsored (those are usernames on the back).
— Evan Hamilton (@evanhamilton) October 3, 2022
When I dreamed up the Reddit Community Funds program years ago I knew folks would do unexpected things with it. So delighted to see it happen! pic.twitter.com/Xx1kL44gBs
Discord raised $995m to disrupt community creation and ended up adding a forum front-end to tame their chat product.
— Matt Mecham (@mattmecham) October 2, 2022
They realised something I figured out 23 years ago: forums are the best format for large scale searchable discussion.
Saw this tweet and it summarized everything I’ve felt towards using activity metrics as the sole method to determine “closeness” within a #community .
— Joshua Grose (@sudotechie) September 28, 2022
This is especially true in product-centric, tech communities. It’s the content they share and the context. Activity is 1 signal pic.twitter.com/hBgVayTK2T
When your customers are happy and your community is inviting, you'll automatically attract people to your business and away from your competitors 👋
— Allison Esposito Medina (@techladyallison) September 27, 2022
