I’m ending this year of newsletters with missing a week and even being a few days late with this one. It turns out life is pretty difficult sometimes.
But wow, it’s been a year! I quietly struggled on many fronts and I hope that 2022 brings me more calm and clarity.
I don’t have more words than that at the moment, because, life. But I do want to say thank you for reading and supporting my work in whatever way you may have done.
🌈 On Rosieland
Not strictly Rosieland, but Erin and I decided to do 100 Days of Twitter Spaces, to be honest, it’s really bad timing, but we’ve been having fun!
- Tackling community debt — What if we kicked out inactive community members?
- Time Pieces Web 3 Community Initiative [Pro]
- Retraining ourselves in community [Pro]
- The types of community [Pro]
- NFTs feel like (expensive) growth hacks [Pro]
- I’m ending this year by tidying up my Notion Community Garden, and exploring some extra writing bits.
✍️ This week in community
Tribal Communities are facing a new threat: Instagram
via The Verge
C’Bearing’s experience illustrates a growing challenge for Indigenous communities: how to protect tribal culture from the dangers of the attention economy.
- Why most NFT owners are insufferable on social media — Simon Owens
- Why I stopped trying to engage passive community members — the 3 circles model.
- In 2022, it’s all about community — NiemanLab
- Platform puzzle pieces for sustainable community — Rosano
- On being authentic — Matt Mecham
- The Six Types of Online Communities (with Examples of Each) — Justin DiRose (Discourse)
- Metrics to track community health — Ankita Tripathi (Developer Relations)
- Channeling a community to write a book — Felicity Brand (Developer Relations)
- Creativity needs just enough social connections — Harold Jarche
- Embodying Work-Life Balance as a Community Professional and Manager — Community Signal
- Choosing the right community platform — Andrew Claremont
- The Malevolence of The Metaverse and Web3 Conversation — Ed Zitron
- Rule #8 – Leverage Digital To Grow Relationships — Charlene LI
- Alternatives to the metaverse — Ben Werdmüller
🐦 Tweets
Community often helps members at a time along their journey. Even if for a short time, the impact could be monumental! Celebrate members moving on when it means the community has helped them achieve what they set out to do. Consider it community graduation#100DaysOfCommunity
— Sara🩴 (@saranosocks) December 9, 2021
“Why launch your community via a live launch party call?”
— Tom Ross (@tomrossmedia) December 15, 2021
1. Members can connect before joining
2. This builds social proof
3. You can set culture early
4. Give a live tour, showing how to use your community
5. Address objections pre launch
6. Prompts burst of early activity
We're living in interesting times. https://t.co/OCeYxWR4x4
— Arvid Kahl (@arvidkahl) December 15, 2021
There isn't a single metric for community that works everywhere.
— Carter Gibson (@CarterGee) December 15, 2021
Instead, you need to identify your company's KPIs and determine how your community can make a meaningful difference in those.
Tie. your community. to your company's. metrics.
Most creators have multiple revenue streams & depend heavily on B2B monetisation
— Sarah (@SarahNoeckel) December 15, 2021
Negotiating with sponsors for @femstreet is incredibly manual & scattered across tools.
Literally can't wait for @jenpphan & team to launch @GetPassionfroot 🍊🥭🍓🍇 https://t.co/JKbPKoEmNw
💡 Racket Rush
— Simon Tomes (@simon_tomes) December 8, 2021
A group of people join a call for an hour. They rotate pairs and each time record a @racket100. At the end of the hour there's a whole load of good conversation and Racket's to share with the world.
What do you reckon?
(it'll require strict timings+facilitation)
Professional learning communities. pic.twitter.com/Vlmtt93ntN
— Rosie Sherry (@rosiesherry) December 14, 2021
Web2 was a customer service medium defined by the complaint “why wasn’t I consulted”
— Venkatesh Rao (17/100 animations ) (@vgr) December 13, 2021
Web3 is shaping up to be a citizen service medium defined by the complaint “why wasn’t I governed?” https://t.co/u736viTt0a
Community folks: This time several years ago I wound up in the hospital after a very challenging community launch.
— Bill Johnston (@billjohnston) December 10, 2021
Self care wasn't something I prioritized - it was a big mistake.
If you are struggling right now, talk to someone - including me. Message me and I'll make time.
Any institution that thinks it knows best without listening to its community, yielding ownership to its community, and making space for its community is doomed to failure. That's true if you're a company, a membership organization, a non-profit, or a political party.
— Ben Werdmuller (@benwerd) December 9, 2021
If you believe in web3.0 and want to become C-Suite,
— Max Rothery (@maximillianroth) December 16, 2021
start learning community today.
It's the most in demand skillset with the fewest experts.
Here's a few places to build your fundamentals: 🧵
🎆 See y'all in 2022!
