🌦 I don't know where you live, but the weather where I am can't seem to make it's mind up!
🌈 I hope you'll join me with an upcoming conversational gathering in Rosieland — Community Conversations: Community Design
❤️ Also coming over the next few weeks: written versions of the Community Building Cohort that I've been working on and delivering the past few weeks.
✍ Community
- Practicing moderation: Community moderation as reflective practice — Amanda L.L. Cullen, Sanjay R. Kairam, Amazon Science
- So you want to run a virtual event — Emilia Lazer-Walker
- A baby step towards building community — Sara Eshelman
- Community as a Channel for Creation — Osioke Itseuwa
- Automations for your Content Calendar — Tifffany Oda
- “Identity isn’t a passport into a community” — Culture Study
- “Community is like a muscle that grows when you practice together” — Fabian Pfortmüller
- How I Built a 15,000-Person Community In Under 2 Years — Jamie Rudden / Buffer
- Is it true that any community that grows big enough, gets ruined? — Hacker News
- So you want to run a virtual event — Emilia Lazer-Walker
🏘 The Village
🎙 Podcast & Videos
- How Urban Planning Could Help Build Better Online Spaces — WNYC Studios
- Sammy Gebele, CEO SAWOO - Building Trusted Advisors to Build Online Communities — Peers Over Beers
- Accelerating Friendship through Shared Experience with Kyle Hagge of Morning Brew — Community Experience
🛠 Tools & Resources
- Linen — Make your Slack community Google-searchable
👩🏽💻 Jobs
- Community Manager (events) — Finimize
- Community Manager — EarlyBird
🗓 Events
- 🌈 Community Conversations: Community Design — Rosieland
- Community Catchup Scotland Session 3: Onboarding Experience(s) — CodeBase
- Book Club: Hacking Communities Q&A with author Laís de Oliveira — Common Room
🐦 Tweets
Making a list of community builders top skills. Help me! What are the skills you really, really need to be excellent at building communities?
— daniellexo (@daniellexo) May 17, 2022
A good community happens when enough signals align.
— Simon Tomes (@simon_tomes) May 16, 2022
Three community roles:
— rafa0 (@rafathebuilder) May 16, 2022
- Make the game
- Manage the game
- Play the game (Manage the treasury)
In each case, the design and governance varies.
Pretty important information for those of us running Discord servers. 😬 https://t.co/IIwfvfegfX
— VincentBoon (@VincentBoon) May 11, 2022
Fostering a community in the workplace requires more than free coffee and lunch n’ learns. ☕🥐
— Assembled (@assembledhq) May 13, 2022
Listen to this episode of Supportive to hear @CarterGee, @Google's Internal Community Manager, discuss how to cultivate a strong community with transparency 🎧https://t.co/M2YcYMoe4c pic.twitter.com/IgWqebYpQS
I’m serious. Read this. All of it. It’s perfect. https://t.co/Ei3kUTI0pt
— Derek Powazek (@fraying) May 12, 2022
