🎉 Happy New Year everyone!
Come on a Rosieland Adventure — a modern community building course
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We all know you can't throw pixie dust on an audience and expect your dream community to come together and thrive. You need a strategy, tactics, and support.
Whether you’re starting from scratch, or you’re looking to re-ignite an existing community, this community course will teach you about the fundamentals of modern-day community building.
🤝 Community Building News
- Social Networking 2.0 – Stratechery by Ben Thompson
- Community-based learning gets official designation — Royal Purple 🎉
- Community Building 101 — Christina Garnett
- The Power of Convening for Social Impact — SSIR
- How Content and Community Empower Each Other — Growth Machine 🎧
- Community-based learning gets official designation - Royal Purple
- How 2020 Created Community for Disabled People — Teen Vogue
- The Power of Convening for Social Impact — Sarah Zak Borgman
- Thoughts on Clubhouse — Julian Lehr
- Fostering Inclusivity for Neurodivergent Community Members and Colleagues — Community Signal 🎧
- A home 30 years in the making 🏡Ceyenne Doroshow, G.L.I.T.S. — Get Together 🎧
- Substack explains its ‘hands-off’ approach to content moderation — TechCrunch
- Ben's ten tips for building a community from the ground up — Ben Halpern
🐦 Tweets
This feels like a major factor for folks staying on FB, and FB knows it. Groups are their community moat. https://t.co/nXy5sA6uSA
— Andrew Claremont (@andymci) December 28, 2020
When I talk about community internally at Reddit, I often use the words "support" and "nurture". Despite the popular phrasing, communities can't be "managed". Here's how the two approaches compare. 🧵
— Evan Hamilton (@evanhamilton) December 28, 2020
Communities normally monetize in two ways: access and status.
— Mohammed Rafy (@rafyasarmatta) December 21, 2020
There is a third way to monetize, few communities take advantage of, knowledge.
Incredible piece by @IanVanagas on why communities should create paid content.
A thread 👇
The best brands are growing through community:
— Growth Tactics (@GrowthTactics) December 21, 2020
• Patagonia → Environment-loving adventurers
• Strava → Outdoor athletes
• Demand Curve → Marketers
Help customers feel like they're part of something larger than themselves.
They're buying membership in your tribe. pic.twitter.com/5f8qwOXjy9
One of the biggest mistakes made in growing communities is attempting to 'give' community to others.
— Rachel Happe (@rhappe) January 2, 2021
Communities are not transactions - they require contribution and commitment from members. They are co-created.
People have to show up - in times of strength and vulnerability.
New lil project: interviewing community builders over at https://t.co/Yv0BCoccII. Insights from the first three interviews below 👇
— Tom Guthrie (@TAGuthrie) December 31, 2020
🙋🏻♀️Did something fun recently; built a Blog Membership Site with 🪄@magic_labs's secure & easy-to-use passwordless auth, and @webflow's just as seamless visual site editor 👩🏻🎨. Here's how: https://t.co/UnYxHrtvDv ✨ #DEVCommunity
— Web3 Girl 📍@ETHDenver ✨ (@seemcat) December 30, 2020
