This week in community building - Issue 35

Comfort has won, and most formality is gone. But the freedom of informality comes at a cost. Formality is the bulwark against some of the nastiest human impulses, and acts as a vaccine against our most dangerous tendency: forming in-groups and out-groups.

From We need highly formal rituals in order to make life more democratic– Aeon

✍️ Blogs, Articles, Resources and News

• Is there a magic number for community viability? – Chris Pattison
• How Covid-19 is Changing the Nature of Access in Virtual Gatherings – Priya Parker / New York Time Events
• Building Remote Relationships – Open Source Capital
• Why Every Organization Should Adopt a Community Strategy – Eric J. Montijo
• I’m not weird – Home Game Comic
• The 6 builders who will thrive in the new world – Brianne Kimmel
• Surviving This Pandemic Isn’t Enough – The Atlantic
• Popcorn Q&A: Mia Quagliarello of Flipboard, the Burning Man Project, and "Get Together" podcast – Get Together

🎙️ Podcasts

• Jennifer Erzen on the (Not So) Secret Powers of Community – Conversations with Community Managers
• Bitesize: Angela Brown of The Linux Foundation discusses what contributes to the energy of events – Jono Bacon
• Rethinking Big Ideas: Priya Parker on Gathering Apart – The Next Big Idea
• EP55: Completely Rethinking Community w/ Bunker Labs – The C2C Podcast
• Engagement That Scales – Podcast Episode #7: Harold Jarche on Working Smarter – The Community Roundtable
• 4: Somebody’s going to eat your lunch – In Before The Lock
• How HER Puts Its LGBTQ+ Community’s Safety First – Community Signal
• Bitesize: Jeff Atwood, Co-Founder of Discourse and StackOverflow, on platform responsibility. – Jono Bacon

🗓️ Events

Upcoming events, let me know if I’ve missed any…

• Vanilla Conversations Spring 2020 – Vanilla Forums
• CommChat Virtual Summit – Comm.Chat

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