🌪 The weather this week has been stormy!
I did two things to make progress last week, go me! 🤸🏻♀️
1️⃣ Thing One I did was to set up a Job board and Talent Pool, do feel free to post your jobs or apply for our Talent Pool if you are on the hunt for work.
2️⃣ Thing Two I did was I spent a good chunk of my time migrating content on Rosieland. It was painful! 😭
🌈 The good news is that Rosieland now has a fresh look! It allows me to move forward with more of a membership model as a sustainable income, whilst allowing the community part to be free. (I still have some previous members to migrate over 🙏🏽).
❤️ My️ real dream (or goal?!) is to put out 100% of our work out there for free and as an independent community and resource. I believe we can get there, just not overnight.
Onwards onto the things I found this week in community...
🤓 Interesting reads...
- Measuring Community Value for Members: NetPromoter Score or Product Market Fit? — Evan Hamilton
- The simple system I’m using to stay in touch with hundreds of people — Jakob Greenfield
- 21st Century Community — The History of the Web
- On Equity in Community Networks — Aimee Fenech
- An Autistic Social Butterfly’s Guide to Making Friends — Devon Price
- How to make the most out of a mentoring relationship — Github
- Disney is developing planned communities for fans who never want to leave its clutches — The Verge
- Pory for Communities — Pory
- Fans Are Better Than Tech at Organizing Information Online — Wired
🎙 Podcasts
- Community Memory & The Decentralized Web — Look Both Ways
- Leveling Up Your Community Team With Specialized Roles — Community Signal
- Gathering Nomads through Tapas Hopping and More with Chris Reynolds — The Community Experience
🛠 Tools:
- Levellr — Build and grow your messaging community
- Heartbeat — Bring your community together
- SavannahCRM — Community Relationship Manager
I want to help you = audience
— Sara Candela (@Scandela9) February 21, 2022
I want to help you help each other = community
You are at the center of your team. But it isn't really a team: It's two groups reluctantly working together. What else is going on in?
— Katerina (@katerinabohlec) February 20, 2022
Vera is a connector. She's collaborating with a lot of people.
Matthew is a gatekeeper.
What would you do to align the team better? pic.twitter.com/ADJBswpg7S
A list of community patterns that can transform into cultic patterns.
— Ari Nielsen (@anielsen108) February 18, 2022
All of these are appropriate to some degree, so there is no clear line when things go off the rails.
Take-home point: one must apply continuous hygiene around cultic patterns. You don't merely "avoid cults".
A 🧵 on community flywheels
— Mathilde Leo 🦁 (@Mathilde_Leo) February 4, 2022
How do you stimulate meaningful activity in your community?
You need a vision. Strategies + tactics
But most importantly, you need momentum. That unstoppable energy that gets members excited, connected and engaged.
That's where flywheels come in.
Just joined a 🔥 Twitter Space with @erinmikail & @rosiesherry about supporting & motivating #community builders. Community bridges the gap between #learning & #teaching. More thoughts to come. For now, here's my take on explorative learning https://t.co/hBOzxZvSwA #learnoutloud
— Tara (@wanderepository) February 16, 2022
What do you wish you would have known before you started your community?
— Sara🩴 (@saranosocks) February 16, 2022
