🌻 I like to focus on the positives and round numbers. Today I'm celebrating 150 issues of this newsletter (the total number of written posts is over 300 now!). Consistency is growth, kinda, sometimes, maybe!
❤️ ️It's️ World Mental Health Day. Take some time in your day to learn, embrace, support and have empathy for the wonderful variety of humans in this world.
Should we think of our members as citizens?
I was doing some community design research (shocker, I know) and came across this quote that stuck with me as thought provoking.
👉 What do you think about it? Is it helpful? Or distracting?
🌈 Rosieland Roundup
- 🔄 The Scheming Community Flywheel
- 💬 What are some good community building practices?
- 💬 How to start & run a collective?
- 💬 November cmgr unconference
- 💬 Should Community be placed under Marketing?
- 💬 [Hot Tip] Use audio notes in your Slack community
👩🏽💻 Community Consultant of the Rosieland Week
📰 This week in community
- The DAO Contribution Funnel — Emma Kwan
- Why Communities and Cohort-Based-Courses (CBCs) Should be Besties — Noele Flowers
- Joining an Established Community — Victoria Tran
- CHAOSScast Episode 66: Deciding what metrics to measure for community managers with Bri, Lori, and Victoria
- How I Built a 200,000-Person Paid Membership Community With $0 in the Bank to Start — Allison Esposito Medina / Buffer
- Community ownership is a self-fulfilling prophecy — Flying Penguins
🐦 Tweets of the week
Community is the unit and container for the experience of belonging and transformation.
— Charlotte Crowther 🕸 (@CharlotCrowther) October 8, 2022
The key to a new future is to focus on gifts, on associational life, and on the insight that all transformation occurs through language.@Peter_Block
In response to America’s political and cultural polarizations, founders of @mosaicamerica aim to “create community rather than maintain cultural silos.” Kathryn Dickason writes in SSIR’s fall issue about Mosaic America’s intercultural programming. https://t.co/Yx7KHF8Isn
— Stanford Social Innovation Review (@SSIReview) October 6, 2022
Prediction: 9/10 communities will fail.
— Milly Tamati (generalist.world👾) (@MillyTamati) October 4, 2022
Why? Because there's no intentional community design baked into the vision.
This can help 👇🏽 pic.twitter.com/MJHS0Ex3lr
I am haunted by a new idea after a conversation I had with @teedubya and I would love to get your feedback. Everyone talks about communities, everything is now a community but I think the real value is not in the communities but in your ability to create COLLECTIVES 🧵👇
— Carlos Diaz (@CarlosDiaz) October 6, 2022
A likely unpopular theory I'm chewing on: All the work community pros put into newsletters and celebrations and swag and the like are far less effective than a) having a really great product market fit and b) decreasing time to value for new members.
— Evan Hamilton (@evanhamilton) October 6, 2022
The dissonance in ban appeals/moderation is funny sometimes cause you'll get msgs like:
— Victoria Tran, but spooky 🧋 (@TheVTran) October 6, 2022
Person: why was I banned for vebal abuse?? WTF?? youre a f*** b**** and you s*** ******!!
And it's like cmon buddy!! I'm sure you can figure it out you're so close!! A lil self reflection!
Super excited to welcome @AdasList members to @jointechladies 🎉 https://t.co/hHU6vK2mLr
— Allison Esposito Medina (@techladyallison) October 5, 2022
