๐ค This week all I wanna say is that if you use Slack for your community (or even if you don't) then you're gonna want to subscribe to this newsletter from Kourosh.
The first issue of The Slack Community Manager's Newsletter is going out to 20 people today๐๐คฏ
— Kourosh Ghaffari๐ (@BuildingWaves) April 25, 2022
โ Community
- The content moderation battle is a really just a failure of innovation โ Anil Dash
- Amplify your mission with community โย Zachary Novak
- Spatial Communities โ Ian Vanagas
- Applying force in community doesnโt work โ Fabian Pfortmรผller
- Ask HN: Are there any rural tech communities? โ HackerNews
- The Magic Triangle: Where Does Community Belong? โ Jenny Weigle
- Life as a Community Manager in Ukraine. โ Jephtah Abu
- The Community Operations Job Description โ Tiffany Oda
- The harsh realities of running an online community โ Tom Ross
๐ The Village
- How do you think about community strategy?
- How might you apply Griceโs Maxims to a community?
- Should every community have a community page?
๐ Resources, Tools & Communities
- A guide to Substack's moderation tools
- Community for Brands Playbook โ Meta / Facebook
- Introvoke โ Host the world live on your website
๐๏ธ News
๐ Podcast & Videos
- Online Communities for Associations โ Clock Tower Advisors
- Moving from Execution to Strategy (Ep 68) โ Community Pulse
- The Ins and Outs of Large Scale Research โ CHAOSS
- #005: The Power of Community-Led Marketing with Katie Perry โย The Community-Led Show
๐ฉ๐ฝโ๐ป Jobs
- Events and Community Manager โ RealTime
- Community Manager (Remote) โย LifeHack
- Community Advocate โ Userlist
We currently have โจ 28 people in our Rosieland Talent Pool โจ. If you're looking for your next community role then join as a candidate or get access if you are actively hiring.
๐ Events
- Community Conversations: Conversation Strategy โ Rosieland
- How to grow your community โ a workshop by James, Arfah and Imran
- Build your Minimum Viable Community โ Rosieland
๐ฆ Tweets
Damn, I really built a company that employs 6 people, has helped hundreds of women get jobs in tech (where we are still grossly underrepresented) all without a dime of venture capital and now we are doing millions in revenue to continue our mission ๐
— Allison Esposito Medina ๐ฎ๐น (@techladyallison) April 23, 2022
Has anyone else used these? My wife got these learning design cards at a meeting yesterday, and they look like they'd be great for learning community discussions! pic.twitter.com/puB00hzYW9
— ๐ฐ๐๐๐ข is lucky! ๐๐๐ (@andy4edu) April 23, 2022
This week we had a spike of meaningful engagement in our new @burbteam community. Following a week where I asked myself if I should retire ๐๐๐ Sharing some thoughts >>
— daniellexo (@daniellexo) April 22, 2022
Curation is one of the most important tools in a CM's tool chest. You have ~got~ to have a ~strong~ opinion about the content and communities your product team is promoting.
— Carter Gibson (@CarterGee) April 22, 2022
Fight to reward your best community contributors! Don't leave it all up to the eng team ;)
Thank you for the great question @theworstdev!
— ๐๐๐ค๐๐๐ช ๐ฝ๐๐ฆ๐๐๐๐๐ฃ (@wesley83) April 22, 2022
Starting a new community is hard. Try not to measure your efforts against what your competitors are doing in the early to middle stages. https://t.co/yHcFV5XivH pic.twitter.com/LvTQEWRefl
Of all the meeting platforms we've used over the last 2 years, Zoom is the one I love most.
— Tessa Davis (@TessaRDavis) April 12, 2022
Most of us think we know Zoom inside out.
But we don't.
Here are 7 Zoom hacks you probably haven't heard of, but you'll be glad you now know.
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Dear community platforms,
— Christina Garnett ๐บ๐ฆ (@ThatChristinaG) April 21, 2022
Make it as easy as possible for community members to communicate 1:1 and 1:many.
Make the UI easy to navigate and intuitive.
Those two things are why so many communities are being built on Slack.
Community advocates/builders/managers/leaders:
— Simon Tomes (@simon_tomes) April 20, 2022
Are you biggering a community? pic.twitter.com/g4Nx01yrLW
