This week in community building — Issue 78

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On social support networks

By Katerina Bohle Carbonell

Three studies on features of social support, and their link to wellbeing and turnover

Key points

• When we lack resources to cope with situations, we reach out to our social support network.
• If people in our social support network do not have the means to help us (time, money, energy, information), we feel helpless, Our mental health deteriorates.
• Thinking about how people in our social support network are related to each other helps create a solid and cohesive social support network.
• Companies should recognize and reward the voluntary support employees provide to each other to reduce turnover intention.

♀︎ What Does it Mean to Be a Woman Online?

New_Public by Civic Signals

🙌 A great round up of projects focused on rewriting history, reconsidering technological advancements, and reimagining a word without gender bias. Educate yourselves and make your online communities and spaces more women friendly.

Below is a sampling of projects that excavate what it means to be a woman online, exploring the nuances between cyberfeminism and transfeminist values, and writing from a more intersectional place.

✍️ This week's articles

• Growing a Community is Like Growing a Garden — Krystal Wu
• How Entrepreneurs Can Make Their Online Community Feel like an Exclusive Party on Social Media — Jerine Nicole
• How I keep in touch with my community — Rashid Elhawli
• Issue #49: Belonging and Narratives — Future of Belonging
• Before you organize another Zoom call, try this approach instead. — Alex Hillman
• Community over code: building successful open source projects — Denis Magda, DevRel

🗞News

• Clubhouse promises its accelerator participants either brand deals or $5K per month during the program — TechCrunch
• The NYT Cooking Community Facebook group is imploding — The Takeout
  

🎧 Podcasts & Videos

• 30: A nice, big, warm hug between Marketing and Community — In Before The Lock
• Holding Communities for Community Professionals to a Higher Standard — Community Signal
• How to set up a paid online community really quick using Carrd, Stripe, Airtable and Slack — Make Something With Romy
• How To Build a Social Media Community with Matthew Kobach — Masters of Community
• Creating Kinder Gaming Communities with Victoria Tran of Among Us — Create Community
• DevRel Content Channels — Community Pulse
• Inside Bootkamps.com, a platform to manage your cohort-based courses — AirParty

🗓 Events

• Power of Community: Summer of Friendship #8 — Call Your Girlfriend
• AMA with Carmen Taubman, CommunityCoach Founder — AirParty
• Building the Future of Belonging at Work — Vanessa Mason

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