🤗 I took a break from this newsletter last week to prioritise an article and launching of our Minimum Viable Community course.
I'm also practising a bit of self-care and cleaning up all the Rosieland things before deciding what to do next. I have lots of plans and ideas, but am also just really enjoying the freedom to work on the things I love most. ❤️
✍️ This week in community...
- Community growth specialists are the future of community — Rosie Sherry
- Three aviation principles for community-builders and founders — Juan José
- Guilt & community engagement — Fabian Pfortmüller
- Understanding the Community through Metrics - Carina C. Zona — CHAOSS
- Embracing a Community — Rotana Ty
- Building A Community Of Alignment — Eric Nehrlich
- #9: Strava Community Analysis — Francisco Fonseca
- On engaging with your creative community — The Creative Independent
- Everyone Has Left the Chat — New York Times
- Episode 10: Peter Block — Finding Community Podcast
- Without Care, We Lose — Chris Dixon
- Communities = human search engines? — Fabian Pfortmüller
- Organizing Your Online Community — Justin DiRose, Discourse
- Shady Pines Radio is a beautiful, independent community — Ben Werdmüller
- Discord is testing forums, new mod tools and homepages that surface hot topics in some servers — TechCrunch
- The CX 025: (Don’t) Do the Hustle: From Hospitalized to Sustainable Community with Tom Ross — Community Experience
- We’re building a social+ world, but how will we moderate it? — TechCrunc
- Pendo acquires Mind the Product to boost global product manager community — TechCrunch
🐦 Tweets
Community Operations is like product management. You’re translating member needs into systems and processes.
— Andrew Claremont (@andymci) February 5, 2022
Asking my community peeps. What should @rosiesherry do?
— edmund 🧑🏾🚀 (@edmundamoye) January 31, 2022
Now that @rosiesherry has left Orbit, what do you picture her doing with all that extra time. I started a list. Feel free to add yours to this thread. 👇🏾 https://t.co/ulGyk8Odtd
What's your biggest struggle when it comes to community?
— Sara🩴 (@saranosocks) February 2, 2022
To scale a community, the real trick is to grow horizontally, not up.
— Rosie Sherry (@rosiesherry) February 7, 2022
Some great examples:
- Alcoholic Anonymous
- Startup Grind
- Duolingo
- Ministry of Testing
artwork for your next campaign 😉 pic.twitter.com/rnn3ETupEy
— Community Lovers 🤝❤️ (@communitiesrule) February 1, 2022
Our NFT collection just hit a 27 ETH floor.
— cantino.eth (@chriscantino) January 31, 2022
Here’s the playbook for how we did it. 🧵
People are lonelier than you think:
— Hugo Amsellem (@HugoAmsellem) December 24, 2021
- Families are scattered around
- Religions are dying
- Offices are closing
- Gig economy is booming
- Third spaces are going out of biz
- Unions are relics of the past
- Neighborhoods are about security vs community
We owe each other more! https://t.co/V9zJnD65SY
While it's important to honor what has been done in community, it's as important to know when change is needed.
— Shannon Emery (@llamasayswhat) February 1, 2022
Change provides a community sustainability or growth. It has to be done thoughtfully but evolving your community allows for more voices to be heard & included. 1/
One of my leadership team peers at Zoopla described my style of leadership as "Ubuntu" - I had to look up what he meant, but was blown away by the compliment.
— David Williams (@TheTestingMuse) February 7, 2022
Ubuntu = "humaneness" – a pervasive spirit of caring and community, harmony and hospitality, respect and responsiveness.
The membership of every community is never perfect. There are always people who could benefit from community they don’t know about.
— Ian Vanagas (@IanVanagas) February 6, 2022
Communities should be working hard to find these people and have them join.
