This week in community building — Issue 50 🥳

Responsible Design for Digital Communities

From responsibledesign.tech

Digital interfaces are the bridges to our communities. Technology can’t fix the systemic inequality revealed by COVID19, but it can help make connections with our communities better. This tool kit and website brings together emergent best practices, workflows, and tools that communities, educators, mutual aid groups, designers, artists and activists are using for community building, and how design needs to change to best suit people, right now.

Yes, We Read the Comments

Wirecutter / New York Times

Here at Wirecutter, we believe in reading the comments (and tweets and emails and Facebook messages). We have a small Community team dedicated to listening to and advocating on behalf of readers who take the time to reach out and talk to us. Our reviewers also consider it part of their job to pay attention to the conversations you have about their work and the experiences you’ve had with products they recommend.

The Reverse Pyramid of Telfar
From The Sociology of Business

In both scenarios, the reverse pyramid model’s long-term strategy is to create customer lock-in, increase retention and capitalize on intangible brand benefits, like service, belonging, community, taste or interest. By creating successive layers of customer engagement, the brand increases its value for its most active customers without excluding anyone else.

More community building updates…

• A Short Origin of Community Management & How I Define it Today — Carter Gibson
• How Techqueria Created the Largest Community of Latinx in Tech — Create Community 🎧
• Understanding hate on Reddit, and the impact of our new policy — Reddit Security
• How to design, nourish, and grow a global community — Madeleine Dore
• How We Created the Biggest Slack Community Channel in Our Niche — Nikola Sokolov
• Bailey Richardson and Kevin Huynh on building communities by finding your hand-raisers — Vidushi (Mishti) Sharma
• Episode 029 - Dani Weinstein Interview - Building, Launching and Scaling Online Communities — Peers Over Beers 🎧
• Curators Are the New Creators —Gaby Goldberg
• Why I love community - this week — Niklas Lohmann
• The anti-community product built for connection — daniellexo
• The Role CMX Summit Played in Making My Career What it is Today — Holly Firestone
• The Solidarity Semester — Soldarity Is 🎓
• Predictions for Community in the 2020s — Mac Reddin
• Ritual Life Planner — Casper ter Kuile
• Shifts Powering the Future of Belonging — Future of Belonging
• EP66: Creating a Category with Community as a C-Level Executive w/ Lean Data — C2C Podcast 🎧
• Artificial Intelligence for online communities — Venessa Paech
• On community building and McDonald's pricing with Marc — Community Finder 🎧
• Podcast 263: turning our employees into Stack users — Stack Overflow 🎧
• Bringing humor & hype to personal finance 💸 Berna Anat, Hella Helpful — Get Together 🎧
• Discussing Data Science and Online Communities with Will Roberts of IBM - Cohere Podcast 🎧

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