Rosieland Roundup 263 — Brave spaces, monetizing your community, fact-checking

🌤️ Welcome to another week in Rosieland!

🌈 This week in Rosieland

🤑 How to Monetize "Your" Community? | Çağrı Yalçın

Çağrı was tired of hearing the phrase “monetizing your community” so much so that it pushed him to write again after a year!

💪 Brave spaces > Safe spaces | Tristan Lombard

I still don't know why tech event and community organizers promise safe spaces.

This is a false promise regardless of your superb facilitation skills.

You can guarantee brave spaces where folks from non-overrepresented backgrounds are treated with the kindness, dignity, and respect that they deserve.

📝 Notion's lost years, near collapse during COVID, staying small to move fast, building horizontal | Lenny's Podcast

Community is a competitive advantage: Notion cultivated a passionate community as its not-so-secret weapon. Early on, Ivan personally replied to users’ tweets and emails, showing there’s a human behind the product. By empowering power users (through programs like Notion Ambassadors and community events), Notion created an army of evangelists who spread the word and even built local communities around the world.

☕️ Befriend the barista: establish your local network of gathering places | Tony Bacigalupo

Tony explores the challenge of finding the right venue: how do you find an affordable, appropriate place to bring my people together and do what we plan to do?

✅ How Tech Created the Online Fact-Checking Industry | Pirate Wires

Interviews with 'trust and safety' workers at meta, tiktok, snapchat, google, and other tech companies reveal a broken system that collapsed under the weight of its own contradictions.