⛅️ Welcome to another week of very rosie community building news! ⛅️
Remote Education: A series of best practices for online campus communities
By Elise Howard / GitHub
- Unlocking community resources, respect, and influence — daniellexo
- The Social Dilemma: come join in the discussion — Rosie Sherry via Indie Hackers
- Walking in the user's shoes🚶🏽♀️Cindy Au of Kickstarter, Zagat, and Brainly — Get Together 🎧
- Patterns and constraints — Chris Corrigan
- OC18: Finding Purpose and Building Communities with Alex Loh — Our Community with Anne Morgan 🎧
- 25 lessons learned from 2.5 years of scaling a Facebook Developer Community to 15000 members — Saransh Kataria
- EP68: Turning a In-Person Conference Into an Event Series w/ Guru — C2C Podcast 🎧
- How To Gather Community Feedback Like A Pro — Create Community 🎧
- Growing as a Community Manager through Metrics with Antonio Nardella — CHAOSS 🎧
- How to Reward Community Members, Even Without a Huge Budget — Jono Bacon
- How a membership community boasts a 96% retention rate with 3,000+ members — Casey Hill
- How a Hashtag Changed The World: Stories, Lessons and Reflections from the #LinkedInLocal Movement — Anna McAfee / Nicole Johnston 📚
- How to Organize a Virtual Conference for $300 — Stephanie Roulic
- Growing a paid community to $800 MRR - Charlie Ward, Weekend Club — Indie Bites 🎧
- How To Use Slack For A Paid Community — Mike Williams 📺
- Announcing The ‘People Powered’ Book Club — Jono Bacon 📚
- Pleased to “Meet” You: 5 Ideas for Getting to Know Students Virtually and Building Community Online — B. Keith Simerson and Terrence D. Roche, Harved.edu
- Slack as a Community Platform — Mac Reddin
- How Can We Foster Belonging if We Can’t Define It? — Sharehold Team
- How Etsy created joyful online events pre-Zoom — daniellexo
- Community Spotlight: UT Dallas Discord — Cody Sanchez
- A Simple Invite — John Saddington
- Why You Should Start a Community During a Crisis — Kathryn Schaub, Meetup.com
- How we built a machine learning and data science community at Microsoft — Alex Banton
🐦 From the Twitterverse…
“It’s tempting to want to hack community growth with incentives. Community is not transactional by nature. When you growth hack with incentives, what you gain in volume you erode in authenticity.” -@LauraNestler via #GetTogether podcast https://t.co/tMhNFcjJSP
— daniellexo (@daniellexo) September 14, 2020
I will be running a one day course on building successful communities of practice in Nov, details in the linked tweet. Come along! #CommunitiesOfPractice https://t.co/tIMHMSFe6s
— Emily Webber (@ewebber) September 14, 2020
Communities are all around us, it’s only recently we started looking
— Erin Mikail Staples (@erinmikail) September 9, 2020
(because tech told us it was the thing that was trending 🤪)
That professional organization? Book club? Neighborhood bulletin board?
Those are all communities!
🧲 Building a Community 🧲
— Chris Hladczuk (@chrishlad) September 14, 2020
Every startup wants one... How do you do it?
• @mkobach
• @gregisenberg
• @APompliano
• @AmandaMGoetz
• @rosiesherry
• @domm
6 tweets from 6 community builders...
(+ a bonus on @RoamResearch)
What companies have leveraged community as a large growth lever?
— Lenny Rachitsky | lennysan.eth (@lennysan) September 13, 2020
https://t.co/dP5bTkOBKM https://t.co/0pAo6f1tPA
— Ankit Shah (@ankitshah) September 12, 2020
VERY excited to announce our new virtual events platform, Bevy Virtual! 🎉
— SPINKS | spinks.eth (@DavidSpinks) September 11, 2020
We just hosted @webflow's conference, will be hosting Google DevFest, and this year's CMX Summit!
It's built to host large conferences and all your community events.
👀👉👉 https://t.co/DIjKZc8MpM pic.twitter.com/jTYH4NBIqx
‘We believe that there’s an order of operations you can follow to cultivate communities that burn bright.’ — Here are three steps to build a deeper, better, and more authentic community pic.twitter.com/llukLByF9I
— NowThis (@nowthisnews) November 1, 2019
#Belonging https://t.co/d5QhdtjBjh
— Vanessa Mason (@vanessamason) September 10, 2020
I did a convo on @joinclubhouse with @nayafia recent @stripepress author of "Working in Public" on open source communities.
— Bailey Richardson (@baileyelaine) September 10, 2020
Talking with Nadia got me thinking about something that I wanted to ask for thoughts on.
Nadia & I disagree on something. (Don't worry, we're friends :)
Now is the best time to think about community...I would even be so bold as to declare that 2020 has launched us into the Age of Community!https://t.co/7E76hJiRtY#community
— Mark Birch, Community Builder (@marksbirch) September 8, 2020
I’ll say it once, I’ll say it a thousand times: The way we gather matters. https://t.co/cRTzS6Nfnh
— Priya Parker (@priyaparker) September 8, 2020
