This week in community building — Issue 63

Utah monolith: Internet sleuths got there, but its origins are still a mystery

The disappearance is a mystery too! It’s also kind of funny to see how people gather over this on Instagram

How My Paid Community Made $5K in Its First Week

From Monica Lent 👋🏼 (one of our Rosielanders! 🎉)

In its first week, the Blogging for Devs Community reached $5K in revenue through a combination of lifetime deals, subscriptions, and my first ever Bitcoin transaction (thanks, Nico!).A profitable first week isn’t what makes this a success in my book.

We are the champions

A Netflix series (…which is basically about communities).

"I've made so many friends wherever I've gone, and even though we don't speak the same language, we kind of communicate by playing yo-yo." 😍

More…

• Pinterest tests online events with dedicated ‘class communities’ — Techcrunch
• Exit Feeds, Enter Community — Ian Vanagas
• The Rise of Communities —Building Communities in B2B — Robin Dechant
• Power and Constraints — Chris Corrigan
• What Journalism Can Learn from Mutual Aid — Columbia Journalism Review
• Growing a restorative community 🌱Jodianne Beckford, Noire Girls Plant — Get Together 🎧
• A paradox of community, belief and reality — Seth Godin
• Deflect Support, Open Source Community Goal — Tessa Kriesel
• To create radical things — Chiara Amisola
• Episode 39 - How Many Ways Can You Build An Online Community? — Peers Over Beers
• Baby steps for dev rel metrics — Jason St-Cyr, DevRel
• Proving the Business Value of Community with Erica Kuhl — Masters of Community 🎧
• Moderating user comments diplomatically — Canny.io
• The Self Fulfilling Prophecy of Not Investing in Community — Mac Reddin
• When will ‘Verified’ just mean ‘Real Person’? — Carter Gibson
• 📻 — 3 Step Model for Building Community Trust @ Twitter — YEN.FM
• Salesforce + Slack? 😭
• Democratizing developer experience — Kristof Van Tomme, DevRel
• The Past, Present, and Future of the Community Industry, with Jono Bacon — Masters of Community   🎧
• Stop Explaining Community Management — Carter Gibson
• EP74: Failsafe way to Find Metrics w/ Mind the Product — C2C Podcast
• Opinion: Audio-first communities — Community Finder
• A Collective Blooming — Joe Lightfoot 📚
• The Lightfoot Podcast — A newly found podcast 🎧

🛠 Tools

Chapter — After several years of being dissatisfied with existing group event tools (Meetup, Facebook events) they decided to build their own.Bubbles — Show what you're talking about.

🐦 Twitter