🌧 Today I took my girls trick or treating and I got soaked!
🔮 We'll learn a lot about how social media impacts community over the next 12 months
There's literally no escaping all the talk, positive or negative, about Twitter. I'm trying hard to not get sucked into the current discussions and rumours.
As much as I love and have benefited from Twitter over the years, I do wish we would all invest our time and energy into niche communities with a longer term view. It's a big reason why I set up The Village, to have a space that in time will have all the questions and answers that community professionals need at their finger tips.
Social media has benefits, but the short-term, audience led and algorithm focus is pretty damaging and not always a good investment of our time.
What I am interested and curious about is seeing how the rise or fall of Twitter impacts communities everywhere. Social media is often a big part of community building, we can't deny that.
💬 For the curious, I shared some resources and created a place to discuss.
🌈 This week in Rosieland
- What is a community tool?
- We now have 37 people on our list of community people looking for their next job, get added.
- and there's a ton of discussions on The Village!
📰 This week in community
- Community: life’s ultimate sweetener - Derrick Chiu
- How To Use The Scientific Method To Grow Your Community In Record Time - Carlee Lloyd
- How Wolf Pack Dynamics Influenced My Career in Building Better Future Communities (Part 1) - George Samuels
- Community Strategy Design — Bill Johnston
- Dunbar's Number & Community Size - Supernuclear
- Launch House splits with law firm conducting its harassment investigation - TechCrunch 👀
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🛎 Rosieland Marketplace
Highlights from our sponsors and our community consultants.
🐦 Sweet Tweets
I asked:
— Charlotte Crowther 🕸 (@CharlotCrowther) October 31, 2022
In your experience, what's the difference between an Online Course that's Community-Powered, and one that isn't?
The conversation it sparked was mind-blowing.
10 co-created reasons to take a Community-Powered Learning approach as a learner or instructor: pic.twitter.com/v2C0reXxTW
Audience: consumes, collates, collects
— Milly Tamati’s @ WebSummit - generalist.world👾 (@MillyTamati) October 29, 2022
Community: contributes, cooperates, connects
There’s a big difference.
Working in community requires an abundance mindset.
— Bri Leever (@BriLeever) October 27, 2022
A roadbiker with a scarcity mindset will see all the new ebikes as a threat - less space on the road.
A roadbiker with an abundance mindset will be excited to partner with the ebikers to make their city more bike-friendly.
Community building is hard and it requires a lot of iteration and experimentation!
— Sharath (@5harath) October 26, 2022
Even after all that there is no guarantee that every initiative you take is a success.
Ex: No one showed up for our spaces event today except team @ThreadoHQ 🥲
The key is to keep going 🚀 pic.twitter.com/DCJ3XQB4c7
Community builders are in the business of 'people'.
— Milly Tamati’s @ WebSummit - generalist.world👾 (@MillyTamati) October 26, 2022
But nobody talks about how tricky it is to facilitate this diversity.
Here's 3 different types of people you'll find in your community (+ how to make it an awesome experience for them!!) 👾
