♥️ "People lose sight that community makes the world run.” -@questlove via @wearequilt
✍️ Articles
Building a Meta–Community
By Nitzan Hermon
The community is formed by its members. It is not a product looking for a fit, and marketed to its segment. It is ambiguous, and open-ended — and can’t be explained in as a territory. I refer to the community as a bonfire, where people show up with their creative surplus and throw it in the fire.
- How to Build Community Through Content — and Vice Versa - AdWeek
- How to easily export your best Slack threads — Michael Rouveure
- Clubhouse's moment arrives — Platformer A Community-Driven Site with Eleventy: Preparing for Contributions — Stephanie Eckles
- The Best Way To Think of Inactive Members — Jerod Morris
- 💥 The power of community in making money, investing in underestimated markets, an immigrant building a unicorn, money and more — Lolita's Newsletter
- What I've Learned from Running a 10,000 Member Discord Server — David Kimball
- 🟣 #5 The Power of a Community — Francisco Fonseca
- 🆕 The rise of in-app warnings, Parler's CEO fired and new political bias study — Ben Whitelaw
- How Commsor started their community for community builders — Build With Users
🎧 Podcasts
- EP80: Building a Space for Only’s w/ PositiveHire — The Community Corner
- Recording: Why Entrepreneurs Should Value Community — Meetup
⚒️ Tools & Guides
- Polis — Polis is a real-time system for gathering, analyzing and understanding what large groups of people think in their own words, enabled by advanced statistics and machine learning.
- The Networks Effect Manual — James Currier, NFX (via Li Jin)
- Virtual Communities for Impact, a toolkit for community builders
- A Guide to Clubhouse
good morning, i wrote about the constant ethical conflict i feel trying to do my jobhttps://t.co/fc5ua5tGbw
— amy b (@arb) February 1, 2021
“The metaphor of ‘community’ in cyberspace is one of convenient togetherness without real responsibility.” - Fernback, 2007
— Carrie Melissa Jones (@caremjo) February 7, 2021
Let’s change that.
That is my mission.
Leaders, share this with your teams? Signal how much you care by saying mental/spiritual/emotional health matters. (great curation, @TEDpartners) https://t.co/fBBS8VgRKY
— Nilofer Merchant (@nilofer) February 3, 2021
Proud to have worked with the TikTok team to design an intervention to reduce the spread of potential misinformation. It worked! In our RCT we reduced shares by 24%, likes by 7%, and views by 5%. The intervention is rolling out as a product feature today: https://t.co/33Ju5z0ZAR
— Evelyn Gosnell (@evelyngosnell) February 3, 2021
We're taking a break from tweeting about lingerie today to have an important conversation about TikTok.
— Adore Me (@AdoreMe) February 4, 2021
The app's algorithm was openly built with discrimination at its core. They've said it's gotten better, but here's what we're seeing here at Adore Me.
A THREAD:
Unpopular opinion:
— Gina Bianchini (@ginab) February 5, 2021
You should be building software that makes the world a better place. Purpose matters. Working on exponentially growing networks without a point of view at their core ends poorly.
Don't let skeptics tell you otherwise.
