📝 Community Building Updates
The Great Online Game
By Packy McCormick
But social media is just one piece of an interconnected game that spans online and offline spaces. The way you play in one area unlocks opportunities in others. Sharing ideas on Twitter might get you invited to a Discord, your participation in that Discord might get you invited to work on a new project, and that new project might make you rich. Or it might bring you more followers on Twitter and more Discord invites and more project opportunities and new ideas that you want to explore which might kick off any number of new paths.
- The community craze is a symptom of what the world is going through right now — Rosie Sherry
- Developer superfans—building trust with an untrusting audience — Devocate
- Social Networks & Sociable Protocols — Richard Burton
- Classifying Communities with the 3Ps: Product, Practice, and Play — Patrick Woods
- Who Makes the Rules Online And Why Do We Follow Them? — New_ Public
- How to create content that engages your community — Carmen Taubman
- How Dunbar’s Number Makes Or Breaks A Community — Ian Vanagas
- Introducing Communitree: a network of community conversations — Rosie Sherry
- Looking for the natural next steps: How Sarah Nöckel built Femstreet — Rosie Sherry
- Planning & Growing A New Community — Mary Green
- It's time to return to indie communities — Rosemary O'Neill
- Micro-Communities - and why you should start one too — Agam More
- Community-as-a-Service: A Business Model for the 21st Century — Jovan Cicmil
🎧 Podcasts
- RocketSnail — The Making of Club Penguin and Building Online Worlds (#62) — Penguin Latte
- 34: The “S” stands for “Success” — In Before the Lock
- EP93: How to Create “Self-Managing Communities” w/ Alyssa Vigil — The Community Corner
- Why Community Leaders Need to Understand Networks: With Bill Johnston and Dr. Lauren Vargas — Cohere
- 035: Dickie Bush – How to Leverage Twitter to Build an Audience and a Business — Nathan Barry
- Culture, Oppression & Community, with Mia Birdsong — Masters of Community
- Why It’s Harmful to Label Community and Community Pros as Underdogs — Community Signal
🗞 News
- People & Company is joining the Substack team 🔥
- Discord’s new Stage Discovery portal will connect live audio events with communities
🛠 Tools
🐦 Tweets
communitree is a delightful concept/experiment by @rosiesherry to foster stronger and deeper community ties using 1:1 audio conversations
— reddy2braaap 🏁 (@reddy2go) May 17, 2021
here’s our chat to get the ball rolling. who wants to chat next on community?
recorded on @racket100 https://t.co/uA3WD9FamS
FYI, community builders, the best thing you can do right now to build your personal reputation and brand is to tell stories about the work you've actually done. There are plenty of "thought leaders" out there talking about what community is in theory. You've lived it.
— Evan Hamilton (@evanhamilton) May 17, 2021
Find your trampoline. pic.twitter.com/i0wWZE5zrO
— Janis Ozolins (@OzolinsJanis) March 22, 2021
A strong community cuts through the noise. And man, do we need these - there’s more noise than ever.
— Ryan Arsenault (@ryanarsenault) May 15, 2021
If you're an aspiring DAO creator
— sacha yves saint-leger (@ssaintleger) April 16, 2021
rather than
product first -> community exit
consider
community first -> product emergence
The best example of this is probably @1HiveOrg. And I believe it has the potential to revolutionise the way we think about DAOs.https://t.co/el8rDx564d
“Don’t build your castle on rented land.” I’m still surprised at how much brands invest into platforms (like FB) that constantly change the rules. https://t.co/iRx3HdLoBc
— Tara Hunt (@missrogue) May 12, 2021
50+ Community Tweets and Threads of the Best Learnings Around Community Building.
— Pramod Rao (@prao24) May 11, 2021
Link to the Wall of Tweets at the end. Here's a thread on the best ones.
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A great article on scaling communities through trust
— Max Haining 💯 (@HainingMax) May 12, 2021
👉(https://t.co/rTj4q7lEKx)👈 pic.twitter.com/QXHhtqDlKT
