✍️ Blogs, Articles, Resources and News
- Building an Online Community 101 - Amy Chen
- Why community founders need to be open minded and put their own needs to one side - Rosie Sherry
- [Book] Affinity Online: How Connection and Shared Interest Fuel Learning
- Discord Is Not An Acceptable Choice For Free Software Projects - Jeffrey Paul
- Issue 32 - Today’s Topic: Pros And Cons about influx of virtual events - MyCampRocks
- DevRel to Me... - Daniel Madalitso Phiri
- Here’s how 15+ member-driven organizations are adapting membership appeals, events, and more for coronavirus - The Membership Puzzle
- Brands recalibrate to community-building during quarantine - MarketingDive
- What Kind of Community Builder Will You Be? - Julian Stodd
- Partying over Internet: Technological Aspects - Martin Sústrik
- Why Most Are Doing Social Media Wrong - Growing Community
- Startup Communities — 30 days of uncertainty… and what’s next - Garrett Johnson
- Help make community more valuable by sharing your metrics - Matt Broberg
- Why we went from Slack to Discord - Matteo Joliveau
🎙️ Podcasts
- Managing Communities of IT Pros and MMORPG Players - Community Signal
- Gadi from Ebay - Innovation - Communicast
- Dr. Diane Hamilton on Understanding The Role Of Curiosity In Our Lives - Conversations with Bacon
- Episode 018 - Guest Speaker - Valentina Ruffoni -Founder and Community - Peers Over Beers
- Tim Courtney of LEGO IDEAS ⛑️ Bringing LEGO fans together to design new sets - Get Together
- Engagement That Scales Podcast – Episode #2: C.C. Chapman - Community Rountable
- A Day in the Life of a Solo Community Manager - Grazitti
- Izzy Piyale-Sheard: Unlock China - Create Community
- Activating Super Fans with Swish Goswami - Create Community
📰 Industry News
- The Art of Facilitating Virtual Discussion Groups and Breakouts - David Spinks / CMX
- A Better Way To Do Ideation Via Your Community - FeverBee
- Don’t Waste a Crisis - GCUC
- 3 Reasons Why Your Community Isn’t As Good As It Used To Be - FeverBee
- How to Create and Empower Social Support in Your Community - Vanilla Forums
- How Community Supports the New WFH World - CMX
- Reduce The Number of Superusers / MVPs / Insiders - FeverBee
- How a Human Response to COVID Led TripActions to Community - VanillaForums
- Meetup Live recording: Mastering Online Events - Meetup.com
- Your Members Don’t Want To Be Friends (and why that matters) - FeverBee
- SIFT – How Communities Can Combat Misinformation - CMX
- What Happens In Hard Times - FeverBee
- Thoughtfully Moving Events Online – Liz Miller - Community Roundtable
- (Online Event) Investing in Your Community Today for a Better Future Tomorrow - CMX
🐦 Tweets
Getting them is the easy part, keeping them is the hard part. Two things:
— 🔺 Cul2ure.eth🔺 (@CultureCraig) April 6, 2020
1) Give participants the space to co-create the community versus just visiting.
2) Build events that bring value to members; building events for the sake of having an event will be felt by members.
What's your bottom line without community?
— Need Sample Code (@NeedSampleCode) April 10, 2020
🤔 Why do customers care about you?
🤔 Where do you generate loyalty?
🤔 How do you separate yourself from your rivals?#cmgr #community pic.twitter.com/loxhiVpKnY
For those of you who suddenly find yourselves having to work or develop community spaces here is a golden rule: your organisation should serve the community not the other way around (shared value is a thing but you won’t achieve your goals if you just milk the community) #cmgr
— Dr Jennifer Beckett (@JenniferBeckett) April 11, 2020
In a disconnecting time, so many people are building connection and community in new ways.
— Alex Smith (@alexsmith1982) April 8, 2020
Here’s one of @TheCaresFamily’s rapidly-reinvented ideas for keeping older and younger people together:pic.twitter.com/QiRBldFWE3