🌥 The sun was out in Rosieland yesterday, but it's now gone into hiding.
In other important Rosieland news, this async book club is a thing, should we call it Rosieland Readers? 😃
The async community book club is a thing...should we call it Rosieland Readers? 😅https://t.co/74lHb9fRMM https://t.co/RpDfZqd8fL
— Rosie Sherry (@rosiesherry) May 10, 2022
Onwards to the little treasures that I've found this week...
✍ Community
- What do we mean by “community”? — Brian Stout
- How to seed your community: A content collection — Rebecca Marshburn & Steven Yum
- The Core Three Pillars of Community — Zachary Novak
- Why You Should Build The Definitive Community For Your Industry — Richard Millington
- We Don’t Need Corporate Social Media — Joanne McNeil
- Setting up a community? Start with research! — Peter Staal
- When external events kill your community's engagement — Tom Ross
- What is Community Strategy? — Carrie Melissa Jones
🏘 The Village
- How do you respond to the “I’m too busy for community” argument?
- What did your community building world look like in the past?
- [Book Club] Lurking
🗞️ News
🎙 Podcast & Videos
- Empathy Matters in Dev Communities | Conversation with Drew Kreiger of StreamSets — Clock Tower Advisors
- #006: How community can humanize business with Nick Mehta — The Community-Led Show
- Erica Moss - HubSpot - How to think about Events and more — Peers Over Beers
- Trust Starts with Listening with Zahra Ebrahim of Monumental Projects — Community Experience
🛠 Tools & Resources
- Flowjin — Archive, share and sell your Twitter Spaces for free
- Direct Memo — Privately message everyone on your Slack team, instantly.
- Magik — Everything you need to build your Community on Slack
- Waves — Create your Slack community's knowledge base.
👩🏽💻 Jobs
- Events and Community Manager — RealTime
- Community Lead - Founding Team — PixelGG
We currently have ✨ 28 people in our Rosieland Talent Pool ✨. If you're looking for your next community role then join as a candidate or get access if you are actively hiring.
🗓 Events
- Designing superuser community programs - Sarah Hawk at Threado
- Workshop: Make the most of your event with Common Room
- How to grow your community — a workshop by James, Arfah and Imran
🐦 Tweets
added a new feature so that whenever someone says "dead game" in our Discord, it autolinks them our Dead Game merch 💀💰
— Victoria Tran 🧋 (@TheVTran) May 4, 2022
kudos to our mod @JakeIGuess for implementing the absolute best marketing tactic pic.twitter.com/z7OgdYwz8Z
start community with conversations pic.twitter.com/FZkyf6h6mc
— Rosie Sherry (@rosiesherry) May 6, 2022
Major 🔑 for community building: Understand how people see themselves, understand how they WANT to see themselves, and understand how they are currently being seen.
— 📙 Alex Hillman (@alexhillman) May 7, 2022
Today is a good day to remember that community does not scale.
— Zach Silverman (Resolute PortCos are Hiring) 🇺🇦 (@zsilvs303) May 6, 2022
But it does compound.
Good read from @AmberAtherton
— Angelo Luciani (@AngeloLuciani) May 5, 2022
To Start Building a Community, Master These Two Concepts (via @future) https://t.co/h80OSkD5Az
Thought-provoking! My quick scratchpad to work through this tweet:
— Jamie Howard 👋 (@JamieHoward) May 4, 2022
Who's our ideal customer?
Where do they hang out?
What tools do they use?
What content do they consume?
Knowing this, where should we focus our limited time?
