Rosieland Roundup 267 — a book brigade, vitality from events, research and listening in journalism

👋 Hello and welcome back to another week in Rosieland!

I've been putting this off for a while, but I now feel ready to create some more structured community education.

So I put together a course on Community Engagement. I enjoyed the process despite truly hating video, but I know it will get better and in time, I will get more comfy with it.

It's good enough, done and ready to go live on Thursday. 🎉

And as part of this, I'm changing up the membership options on Rosieland. All existing paid members will get a free upgrade to access the top-tier membership.

I'm still making decisions on a lower-priced tier, but I've been doing this long enough to feel great about the work and research I do. I'm no longer in the mood to do anything for free.

My research, sharing and writing is a service that will help you think better about your community building efforts. These insights are only available in Rosieland.

Every link I share. Every insight I write. Every course I create will help you open your mind to what community building can be. It's time for me to be even more structured and intentional. And for people to see this as a service that is worth investing in.

I don't do big marketing campaigns, no countdowns. This is basically it.

I hope you'll upgrade your Rosieland Membership, it really does make a difference and enables me to continue doing the work I do.

🌈 This week in Rosieland

• I ❤️ it when my Rosieland and MoT worlds collide.
• Community can be when the audience faces the stage

‘Book brigade’: US town forms human chain to move 9,100 books one-by-one | The Guardian

I love how people observed books as they passed through everyone's hands. It made me chuckle! 😍

“It was a practical way to move the books, but it also was a way for everybody to have a part,” Michelle Tuplin, the store’s owner, said. “As people passed the books along, they said ‘I have not read this’ and ‘that’s a good one’.”

From once a year to every day: creating long term vitality from big events | Practice of Place

I love this short piece from a perspective of not trying to re-invent the whole wheel, but rather than look at something they had and seeking to make improvements. This is the wya.

How community listening and research inform The Lenfest Institute’s work to serve the Philadelphia news ecosystem | The Lenfest Institue

I'm so inspired by the world of (local) journalism. They do so much community work without calling it as such. They also have such a great attitude towards listening and research. Honestly, community people could learn a thing or two from them. Of course, it's not cheap, and neither is our work.

Inside Exit Five: How We Doubled Community Growth in Under a Year (with Matt Carnevale) | ExitFive

Community growth stories feel more interesting these days, especially when so many aren't able to achieve it in this market. I've not listened to this yet, but I have it on my list.

I read ‘Careless People.’ Now I know why Mark Zuckerberg tried to ban the tell-all memoir | San Francisco Chronicle

This is a book that Meta is trying to stop from getting published. The best thing we can do is get it, read/listen to it and share it with your friends!

Other books that appeared within my research:

• Hope for Cynics: The Surprising Science of Human Goodness
• Starting Somewhere: Community Organizing for Socially Awkward People Who've Had Enough

📰 News

Meta’s antitrust trial begins

More than four years after it was first filed, the government’s case is only getting harder to prove

PlatformerCasey Newton

TikTok Adds Community Notes to Complement Fact-Checking

TikTok becomes the latest social app to implement crowd-sourced fact-checking.

Social Media TodayAndrew Hutchinson

Snapchat is Harming Children at an Industrial Scale

In their own words, we see that Snap Inc’s design choices expose millions of kids to harm

After BabelJon Haidt

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