☀️ It feels like summer is coming!
This week:
- Journalism doing the work with a focus on community
- Community Weaving
- Cultivating Communities of Creativity and Caring
- Community frameworks, models and visuals...
- Why community organisers are so prone to burnout
- Are your decisions community compatible?
- How to Organize a Children's Party
- Can you design belonging?
- In the news
- Community manager's energy levels
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Journalism doing the work with a focus on community
I have to admit, I'm a little bit obsessed with how journalism can be so community focused.
“It’s confirmed, to me, the value of being in the community that you report on,” Blackburn said. “I think our coverage has been as good or better [than that of] many of the professional newspapers” that have come to campus.
...and...
“I hope people recognize that we are here to stay on the campus,” Cutler said. “We don’t come in when there’s something crazy happening and then leave when it’s over. This is just what we do all the time. And I really hope that makes people trust us more as a newspaper.”
Community Weaving
An amazing resource, framework and handbook.
Cultivating Communities of Creativity and Caring
Oh, it's so good to see people recognising the role and importance of that comes with caring communities...
...in the past few years, we’ve realized we’re not just about designing tools and activities. In fact, one of the most important ingredients to the success in our projects is the support of caring communities around these tools and activities. So now I describe our group a little differently. I say that we’re designing innovative tools and cultivating caring communities to engage young people in creative learning experiences. Caring communities play a very important role in our efforts to support playful and creative learning experiences. When people feel welcomed and supported and safe within a community, they are more willing to experiment, try new things, and take the risks that are an important part of the creative process.
And today I learned about the Lifelong Kindergarten phrase, which I very much intend to embrace in my own life!
Community frameworks, models and visuals...
I try hard to balance my Rosieland community work with writing, but also curating the thinking of what others have to say about community.
I tidied up my list of community frameworks, models and visuals. The current count is 121, but the more I work on this, the more I see there is so much to add in.
This is available to browse in the Rosieland Knowledgebase (paid members).
Why community organisers are so prone to burnout
One of the reasons community is great is because the people leading them care so much. One of the reasons we burn out is because we care so much.
There are some great reminders here to help us avoid the burnout.
Are your decisions community compatible?
My latest piece on Rosieland, when we make business decisions, are is there a check in place to see if they are community compatible? If not, how easy will it be for us to build the communities we strive for?
How to Organize a Children's Party
This is a snippet of part of a TedX talk on complexity with Dave Snowden. The title of this one feels more appealing to our short attention spans. 🙈
Also as a slight observation, in my testing world people have been talking about Dave Snowden's work for years, but I don't think the community world has. I have a hunch his work is very relevant to our work and perhaps we'd benefit from learning from his work.
Can you design belonging?
I enjoyed watching this whilst also revisiting the notes I made on the book last year. Also, CMX have release a few other talks from their recent conference.
📰 In the news:
Karissa Bell
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Erik Martin
🤭 Community manager's energy levels as they start their day
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