Welcome to the first Rosieland Roundup of 2025! Hopefully everything you need to keep on top of what's happening around community.
🌈 Recently on Rosieland
Learning to be an entrepreneur means building connections as well as studying business » The Conversation
Our findings suggest that relationships and social networks play a vital role in entrepreneurial learning. These networks provide support, advice, and opportunities that are often missing from traditional education settings.
We found that co-working spaces act as communities where entrepreneurs collaborate, share knowledge, and support each other. This environment fosters innovation and provides an opportunity to keep learning while working.
Bridges & The Last Network Effect » augment.ink
We're in an exciting moment for the open social web. As Elon makes one bad decision after another on X, we've seen waves of users leave the platform for alternatives. Three obvious beneficiaries of these, ahem, lapses of judgment are Threads, Bluesky, and Mastodon.
How Wendy MacNaughton builds community with her 30 Days of Drawing practice » Substack
My community isn’t huge on comments. We are a visual bunch. We speak in pictures and text. So the Chat is where it’s at. [Substack]
Social Connection Fact Cards (The U.S. Surgeon General Advisory, PDF)
Our Epidemic of Loneliness and Isolation: The U.S. Surgeon General’s Advisory on the Healing Effects of Social Connection and Community
📚 Pirate Care: Acts Against the Criminalization of Solidarity
Pirate Care is a radical type of social care that emerges from ordinary people helping each other when the state has declared some type of care illegal, or when markets have abandoned them as unprofitable, or political bullies consider them unpatriotic, gender transgressive or unacceptably compassionate to marginalised people.
Learn about it in the book, or listen to a podcast interview with the authors.
Understanding digital futures: Towards a framework for digital, community & youth engagement and research
In this paper we offer an analytical framework exploring the extent to which rural communities are positioned to engage with digital technologies and some key factors influencing the process. Described as a ‘Digital Rural Research Framework’, it builds on the digital stages of readiness, capacity, use, and impact, and incorporates the community capitals literature to examine how different capitals can influence digital technology adoption.
How Cultures of Reciprocity Can Create More Just Communities
Long central to many Native communities, such traditions can foster the redistribution of wealth and help counter long-term harm.
Can universities be effective community builders?
Advocates have long argued “yes.” Observers going back to the early 20th-century US philosopher John Dewey have also contended that universities play an essential role in creating a democratic citizenry.
🗞️ Community News
- Prequel is building a community-driven approach to finding software bugs: The startup is building a database of software failure patterns or misconfigurations in Linux workloads. The database is updated by a growing community of engineers and developers who exchange information about reliability.
- A New Social is a new non-profit that wants to help bridge platforms: The open social web still isn’t as open as we all might want, but a non-profit is being formed to try and change that.
- Meta is deleting it AI profiles, but they’ll be back: Last week, Meta VP of generative AI Connor Hayes told the Financial Times that the company sees a future on its platforms where AI profiles not only exist, but engage just like normal accounts by sharing content and chatting with users.
- Smart Passive Income Unites Two Entrepreneurial Communities with a Tiered Membership Model: The merger enhances access to high-quality resources, support, and connections for entrepreneurs at every stage of their journey.
- The Guardian view on a ‘community right to buy’: unleashing the power of the local: After a decade and a half in which social infrastructure has been allowed to crumble, Labour is right to see bottom-up reform as part of the solution.
- Community Conversations making a difference on a local level: Community gardens, men's health groups, boater initiatives and a community pump track are just some of the initiatives that communities are organising to help tackle local issues and come up with their own solutions for improving health and wellbeing.
- Forbes Expands Globally With Launch Of Private Members-Only Clubs And The Opening Of Forbes House Madrid: Forbes Media, in partnership with SpainMedia, today open the doors to Forbes House Madrid, a first-of-its-kind, exclusive private members-only club tailored to an elite global community of entrepreneurs, leaders and innovators.
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