Open Masters (in Community Building)
Ok, so this appeals to me. It combines self-directed education with creating your own 'Masters qualification' (not an official one) one that you design yourself.
I wonder if anyone here would be interested in going down a path like this and have regular accountability sessions.
Ping me if interested! 😍
What social networks can learn from public spaces
Or: 14 ways to rebuild your hell site
In the aftermath of the Great Deplatforming of the past week, we’ve seen a thoughtful debate over the power and limits of taking away a person’s ability to post online. It’s a blunt but powerful tool for punishing people who would use your platform to incite violence or commit other crimes. But building healthy, happy communities requires much more than removing their worst users. You don’t have a healthy media ecosystem just because Donald Trump no longer dominates it.
- The Moderation War Is Coming to Spotify, Substack, and Clubhouse — OneZero
- Wikipedia Turns 20 – and moderation innovations over the years — Discourse
- And also — Wikipedia's Biggest Challenge Awaits in 2021 — Wired
- My data-centric approach to tracking investor relationships — Patrick Woods
- Signal reminds people to be nice.
- Markets and Communities — Erik Torenberg
- Substack’s Curious Views on Content Moderation — LawFare
- How to Build a Community Business — Tatiana Figueiredo
- How Toastmasters has survived—nay, thrived!—for 100 years — Get Together 🎧
- 5 Things I Learned from My First Job in Community Management — Noele Flowers
- Carrie Jones: How She Built an Online Brand Community and Helped Organizations Succeed! 📺
- Psychology and Community Building — Christina Garnett
- 🔵 #2 — Startup Communities & Ecosystems - is there any difference? — Connect Dots
- Community Club now have a podcast 🎉 🎧
- Issue #42: Belonging and Digital Public Spaces — Future of Belonging
- Twitter Spaces vs Clubhouse — Justin Jackson
- Can You Treat Loneliness By Creating an Imaginary Friend? — Nautilus
- Moderation Is Not Enough — Lisa Martens
👀 Tip of the week
Help your people feel like they belong by talking about them.
For example:
- do an interview with them: text, podcast or video
- pull together a weekly newsletter featuring members and their content
- thank and celebrate them, privately or publicly
- give them shout outs on social media
- write about them within your community
- summarize what they’ve said elsewhere for your community
- bonus points for using memes 🙃
🛠 Tools
If you're building an early stage community, there's no excuse not to be personally onboarding each new member.
— Charlie Ward (weekendclub.co) ✌️ (@charlierward) January 13, 2021
LPs in 2018: "Why are you creating so much content? Are you sure community building /really/ is necessary for a VC firm?"
— Alexis Ohanian 7️⃣7️⃣6️⃣ (@alexisohanian) January 9, 2021
LPs in 2021+: "What is your content strategy? Just how strong + engaged is your community?"
Good, clean, community gamification. This is what it looks like 👇 https://t.co/uBwlxJlam2
— daniellexo (@daniellexo) January 13, 2021
Your communities don't start off self sustaining. Get real comfortable with unscalable interactions at first to build the advocates that will keep your spaces healthy.
— Carter Gibson (@CarterGee) January 11, 2021
It didn't have to be this way. Flaws in the original design of the internet omitted identity, social graph, etc. allowing our identities and networks to be manipulated, bought and sold, influenced, harvested, exploited. https://t.co/wxNVbHKjsy
— Caterina Fake (@Caterina) January 14, 2021
Clubhouse lacks basic accessibility and I don't see how that's okay. Can't they afford the engineering hours to make their app accessible? I hesitated to post this but it's stuck in my head. Kind of like how Typeform was saying they'd work on a11y when they get around to it
— Nikema 🥑 (@dev_nikema) January 14, 2021
