👋Hey everyone! I have some updates to share with Rosieland. 🌈
It's been a long and slow Rosieland transition away from Substack. To think the original plan was to move by November last year. 🙈 We're now just about there, though there will be things that need tidying up over the next few weeks. Including deleting my Substack. All future emails will be sent through Convertkit and weekly curated content made available on Rosieland.
I'm building in public, being as open and as honest as I can be with all the things and whilst also bearing in mind the limited time I have to actually sit down and write things. Here's how it all took me longer than expected.
For now, what you need to know is that emails are now being sent via Convertkit and our content and 'community digital garden' is hosted on Rosie.land. I'll provide more updates in the coming weeks.
Here are a few things we've been sharing recently:
- Businesses are communities too
- Can you create community in places like Instagram?
- It doesn't have to be community-first
- What vocabulary do you use for your own habits, routines, rituals, etc?
- The Future of the Community Creator Economy
❤️ Onwards to our weekly curated email...
Is content moderation a dead end?
By Benedict Evans
"However, it often now seems that content moderation is a Sisyphean task, where we can certainly reduce the problem, but almost by definition cannot solve it..."
More community news...
- Let’s build some community flywheels — Rosie Sherry
- My experience with sexual harassment in the Scala community — Yifan
- I grew an online community to $100K ARR over one year, AMA! — Anne-Laure Le Cunff
- You Are Not a Guest — Leela Corman, Tablet
- How Our Slack Community Grew to 1,000 Users and 115,000 Messages in 7 Months — John Lafleur
- Is your community a small world? — Katerina Bohle Carbonell
- WorkingOutLoud on Community Building — Julian Stodd
- The hidden burnout of community builders — Georgia Ritter
🗞 News
- Exclusive: Inside Snapchat's push to make cameras more inclusive — Axios
- Icebreaker is now Gatheround — Perry Rosenstein
🎧 Audio & Video
- What’s the best way to start a conversation? Yina says ask a question — Reddy2Go
- Making Money Mindfully with Communities with Sara (@saranosocks) — Rosie Sherry
- A Community Management Pioneer at Microsoft with Alex Blanton — Masters of Community
🐦 Tweets
The other problem with this is that you often have to walk the company back from what they've pictured.
— Evan Hamilton (@evanhamilton) May 2, 2021
A great company has a problem(s) to solve and hires an expert to figure out the form(s) that will take. https://t.co/9454LvII1R
Instead of rage tweeting about Basecamp's recent blog post to stop "societal and political discussion" on their work chat, I wanted to share some of my swirling thoughts.
— Carter Gibson (@CarterGee) April 27, 2021
Thread below👇👇👇
tech people literally call talking to people "community"
— justin (@itunpredictable) April 29, 2021
When someone decides to follow you it’s like joining a community.
— edmund 🧑🏾🚀 (@edmundamoye) April 29, 2021
- Welcome them.
- Ask why they followed so you have context on your USP.
- Find sth about them that interests you.
- Pay them a compliment. It shows care.
Authentic interest is the foundation.
One of the best way to check the health of an online community:
— Ramli John 🇨🇦 (@RamliJohn) April 27, 2021
Check the introductions channel or thread.
If current members are not welcoming new members, that's a bad sign. 👎
These documentaries about WeWork show how hypocrisy, privilege, and narcissism can be masked as compassion, inclusivity, and leadership. Adam and his wife are the kind of people who talk about inclusivity and love, while blocking marginalized people from accessing resources.
— Marie Roker-Jones (@MarieRokJones) May 1, 2021
