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❤️ Love vs Fame 🕺🏽
I always love a new angle of looking at depth vs reach. This is similar to the community vs audience perspective.
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The product approach to open-source communities
I love seeing more people talking about treating community more like a product and this post dives into some useful questions we could be asking of our communities:
- Value - Will customers find enough value in my solution to choose it?
- Usable - How easy is it to use my product?
- Viable - Can I afford to build the product?
- Feasible - Do I possess the skills and technology to build it?
📧 New community newsletters and blogs to subscribe to!
What's the sign of a thriving industry? New blogs and newsletter popping up, it's great to see!
Here are some new ones to add to your lists:
- Community & Events by Katie Ray
- Community Unlocked by Jamie Langskov
- Connection Hub by Marta Brzosko
- Llama Says What About Community by Shannon Emmery
🕸 Community around the web...
Community Everywhere at: Notion - Community Inc.
Notion is the poster child for Community Everywhere. Utilizing a decentralized approach to community, it has turned a global fanbase into a billion-dollar business. This deep dive looks at how Notion’s growth has been powered by community, and how viral TikToks help it land Enterprise deals.
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Move at the speed of trust
“Move at the speed of trust. Focus on critical connections more than critical mass—build the resilience by building the relationships.” - Adrienne Maree Brown What is trust? Trust, according to my go-to source of truth, The Thin Book of Trust by Charles Feltman, is built on four elements: * sin…
Fandom Status: 101
A primer for all things fandom.
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Love and Employment: How interviews and dating are similar
The agony is real
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And I'm ending with swag socks, cause, why not?
This is by far the most socks I have collected at one time at a conference 😂 🧦!!! #KubeCon2023 pic.twitter.com/GdAeDjhCXU
— Just Jewels is @KubeCon (@Julie_Gund) November 9, 2023