Rosieland Roundup 261 — Don't miss out on this great opportunity 🫠

☀️ Welcome to another week in Rosieland!

🥉 Why third-party platforms are killing your community – and what to do about it? | Remote Daily

My community partner in crime at Ministry of Testing and I are doing a live session with Remote Daily. Join us!

While most community managers use and pay for third-party platforms, the topic of data ownership and digital sovereignty is bubbling up around the world. But how can you take control and ownership and even build your own platform?

PS. I barely did any public speaking last year, life was a bit stressful, but I'm back, and most definitely energetic for it again. ☺️

Do get in contact for speaking or small-scale fractional / advisory roles. Working with me brings a no-fluff guarantee.

🌈 Why I hate the term "paid community" | Rosieland

And my desire for it to become a thing of the past.

Perhaps it's the sign of the community world being in its infancy that we often classify communities as being paid or not. I suspect, or perhaps more accurately right now, I hope that in time, we avoid labelling communities this way.

Here are a few reasons why...

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Source: Engadget

💬 Quote of the week

I've been thinking about glue work a lot. I also think about community care too. The two seem to go well together.

Learn more about community + care:

• Care as community strategy
• Community = care
• A Curated Guide to Community Care
• What we can learn from the CARE principles

🐝 Clay announces community equity offering for supporters to become co-owners | Clay

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We believe the people who helped build Clay should benefit from its future. That’s why we're announcing a community equity offering, to give Clay supporters the opportunity to become co-owners.

🐸 Maybe now we can stop pointing towards Duolingo as a good example of community | Reddit

Is there really community when there is such lack of care?

🌶️ Over on r/duolingo:

r/Duolingo Will No Longer Be Duolingo’s Unpaid Customer Support or Data Mine

🏳️‍⚧️ ‘We won’t be safe if we’re silent’: Young trans leaders want to build a network of their own | 19th News

In tough times. Build community.

Although Rood knows that inherent risks come with taking on a more public advocacy role, she feels that the risks would be the same even if she did nothing.

💪 Greta Thunberg doesn’t want you to talk about her anymore | Politico

This is a super interesting read from the perspective of understanding how movements change over time and also trying to understand how Greta approaches it.

Thanks for reading!

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