This week in community building — Issue 89

🎙 What makes a good community experience?

I've been having lots of fun with Racket, a short audio form platform, and they launched a new thing where you can ask questions and people get to respond, all in audio of course.

So, here's a chance to get involved, I posed a question: What makes a good community experience?

Come and share! (I have a few Racket invites going too)

On knowing when to slow down

Zenat Begum, The Creative Independent

Playground Coffee Shop owner and community organizer Zenat Begum discusses what she learned from her parents and applied to her business, prioritizing downtime, the value of service work, and including your community in what you do.

We Went From Tribal to Individual. Something Else Must Come Next

Douglas Rushkoff, Team Human

We’re moving from one understanding of our place in things to another. The Renaissance may have brought us from the tribal to the individual, but our current renaissance is bringing us from individualism to something else. We’re discovering a collective sensibility that’s more dimensional and participatory than the unconsciously formed communities of the past. We had to pass through this stage of individualism in order to get there.

• 🌈 The Concept of Identity in Online Communities: The Rise of Faceless Creators — Erin Mikail Staples
• 🌈 Communities bring opportunities — Rosie Sherry
• 🌈 Community is everywhere, but is it in your user experience? — Danielle Maveal
• The reciprocity hustle — Seth Godin
• Monarchists — Seth Godin
• How to Apply Product Thinking to Build Online Communities — Peter Yang
• It Takes Two to Make the Thing Go Right [Onboarding] — Patrick McCrann
• How censorship became the new crisis for social networks — Casey Newton
• On Events, Empathy, and Alliterations — Tim Leberecht
• The Age of Reopening Anxiety — The New Yorker
• How to Officially Say Goodbye to This Garbage Year — Rachel Miller
• Crypton Future Media Will Allow Content Creators to Monetize Vocaloid Content — OTAQuest

🗞 News

• Etsy is acquiring UK-based social selling site Depop for $1.625B in a mostly cash deal — TechCrunch
• Malt raises $97M at a $489M valuation for its freelance marketplace for developers — TechCrunch
• Venn, a social networking and services platform for hyperlocal neighborhood groups, raises $60M — TechCrunch
• Trump deplatforms himself — Casey Newton

🎤 Podcasts & Videos

• Achieving Virtual Event Success in your Community with Lauren Hagerty — Masters of Community
• The Golden Age of Online Communities & the WELL with Gail Ann Williams — Cohere
• Episode 60 - Everything in Moderation — Community Pulse
• Becoming a Developer Advocate — Alex Patterson
• DevRel around the world — Community Pulse
• The Rise of Faceless Creators — Andrei Terb
• How to curate your community resources with a digital garden — The Communities Show
• The ‘Skill’ In Developing Communities — Richard Millington

🏓 Rackets

• Do you sell a tool or are you growing a community? — Chris Brogan
• Do you think Racket could be used for community building? — Carmen Taubman
• Warnings for those trying to build paid communities 😂 — Jay Clouse + Rosie Sherry
• Discord vs Discourse. How to co-exist between the two and platforms — Rosie Sherry + Odysseas Lamtzidis
• Starting highly committed communities — Alex Kennedy + Rosie Sherry
• Community Manager "Wannabe" Journey — Rosie Sherry + Francisco Fonseca
• Community marketing is all about trust — Rosie Sherry + Francisco Fonseca
• Building a virtual community during the pandemic, hybrid or not? — Rosie Sherry + Sonali Nigam
• Creating community and engagement with a newsletter — Rosie Sherry + Hua Shu
• Journaling Communities — Michael Greenberg + Tracy Winchell
• How to advertise your facebook community on facebook — Anthony Castrio + Gavin Bell
• How growing up online preps you to be a community manager. 👾🦠 — Erin Mikail Staples + Sam Oshins

🐦 Tweets