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A general reminder that you can book to attend meetups here.
π Also, in case you arenβt aware, I log all these newsletter links into the Notion, plus other older stuff that I stumbleupon. My goal is to have the most comprehensive community resource, ever! (It may already be there in terms of βmost comprehensiveβ, but there is still a lot that I want to add to it.)
Moving Across Lands: Online Platform Migration in Fandom Communities
University of Colorado
When online platforms rise and fall, sometimes communities fade away, and sometimes they pack their bags and relocate to a new home. To explore the causes and effects of online community migration, we examine transformative fandom, a longstanding, technology-agnostic community surrounding the creation, sharing, and discussion of creative works based on existing media.
The Opportunity for Internet Communities
Ian Vanagas
TikTok showed a different way to create a community. When you focus on video and mobile-first, community looks different. Instead of you choosing your community, TikTok puts you into a community based on what you interact with. I expect to see more of this moving forward.
Building, not branding
By Chris Dixon
Instead of creating individual brands, we can aim to build collectivities in struggle.
This is not simply a personal failing or a toxic form of ambition. The current organization and administration of power in our society fosters an individualistic, acquisitive, self-promotional orientation. Culturally, we can see this in the pervasive βcult of entrepreneurship,β proliferating forms of media-propelled celebrity status, and Hollywood representations of social movements. As Maccani explains, βthis internalized dimension of capitalism has us ever fighting to βget aheadβ in school, at work, and even in the movement, and forgetting the ways in which such structural privileges and oppressions as class, race, gender, citizenship, sexuality, and social currency, are warping the form and face of our organizing.β This is a dead end.
Thankfully, there is an alternative. Instead of creating individual brands, we can aim to build collectivities in struggle. This, writes Spade in his new book Mutual Aid, βmeans cultivating a desire to be beautifully, exquisitely ordinary just like everyone else. It means practicing to be nobody special. Rather than a fantasy of being rich and famous, which capitalism tells us is the goal of our lives, we cultivate a fantasy of everyone having what they need and being able to creatively express the beauty of their lives.β
PolicyKit: Building Governance in Online Communities
Just another random research paper I came across. π€·π½ββοΈ π§
The software behind online community platforms encodes a governance model that represents a strikingly narrow set of governance possibilities focused on moderators and administrators. When online communities desire other forms of government, such as ones that take many membersβ opinions into account or that distribute power in non-trivial ways, communities must resort to laborious manual effort. In this paper, we present PolicyKit, a software infrastructure that empowers online community members to concisely author a wide range of governance procedures and automatically carry out those procedures on their home platforms
14 things I learned from writing a book
This book by Ana Andjelic looks super interesting, Iβve pre-ordered mine. Not sure when Iβll get to read it, but at least Iβll feel clever by having it near me. I love some of the lessons she has listed too. β€οΈ
More this week...
- How Discord Won β Ian Vanagas
- 10 Rules for Building an Online Community in 2020 β Noele Flowers
- Community building stacks β Community Finder
- π» β Building Community Around Your Mission & Brand β YEN.FM
- Mastering the art of meetups π€ Joe Robinson, Designers + Geeks β Get Together FM π§
- Community Builders: Don't Forget Gen Z β YEN.FM
- Engagement That Scales Podcast β Episode #15 β Nilofer Merchant on Onlyness β The Community Roundtable
- Issue #32: Embodiment and Belonging β Future of Belonging
- The Power of Personal Growth in Tech Communities β Meetup πΊ
- A peek into how Unstack is running their Slack community β Issue 4 β Build With Users
- Today I learned about social dreaming and imagination β so I created a page on the Notion. βοΈ
- Creating βDefault Spacesβ to Empower Marginalized Communities with Gordon Bellamy & Kobie Fuller β Masters of Community π§
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— daniellexo (@daniellexo) October 26, 2020
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— Janine Sickmeyer (@myfriendjanine) October 25, 2020
These early voting videos are giving me so much life. https://t.co/HJGeZN5uoq
What are the best ways you've seen teams create a sense of community and belonging in a remote work environment?
— Brian Wang (@brianmwang) October 24, 2020
"The net value is the people. Period." Really enjoyed this keynote by @alexhillman from @indyhall on what coworking looks like through a pandemic. https://t.co/BJtUJsJI1I
— Radius CoWork (@RadiusCoWork) October 23, 2020
Where is the best place to host a community of non-technical people? Donβt say Slack.
— Ari Lewis π (@amlewis4) October 22, 2020
Ooh get schooled by someone who is in the arena! Learn to build an online community with β¦@beckybrookerβ© of β¦@queerdesignclubβ©! https://t.co/WsiAHtunta
— daniellexo (@daniellexo) October 22, 2020
Love this pools, hubs & webs community reference by @daniellexo. If ya don't know it was developed for @harleydavidson way back in '09 as they devised their Harley Owners Group community strategy.
— Max Rothery (@maximillianroth) October 21, 2020
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h/t @yenFTW pic.twitter.com/NMafUlCOYY
Thinking of starting a #community? Start with purpose and remember... βA category is not a purpose.β -@priyaparker
— daniellexo (@daniellexo) October 19, 2020