Checkpoints
by Robin Sloan
Today Rosie learned about 'Checkpoints'. 🤷🏻♀️
When a YouTube video is determined a suitable haven for checkpoints, its comment section is, by mutual agreement, no longer “about the video” but instead a shared space for brief, diaristic reflection.
Your community is like a forest
Just like the engineered forests with which we began, something is amiss with the engineered re-integrations that digital media makes possible. Networks built on metrics and data cannot account for the often intangible forces that bind people together, not unlike the mycorrhizal networks Simard identified.
📅 Events
- 🌈 Cultivating Community - A Rosieland guide to building communities — Rosieland
- The art of community conversations — Orbit
- A Shifting Landscape: How Community Builders are Adapting — Artery
🌈 Rosieland
- Community growth comes from repeatability — Rosie Sherry
- How my Community Initiatives team runs no-code experiments that drive real, statistically significant results — Evan Hamilton
- Be an infinite community player — Erin Mikail [Pro]
- The relationships you have — boundaries as community builders — Erin Mikail [Pro]
- 📅 Cultivating Community - A Rosieland guide to building communities — Rosieland
✍️ Community Building
- I have lasagna friends! — Madison Taskett
- Minimum Viable Governance: lightweight community structure to grow your FOSS projects — Github
- In a Divided Country, Communal Living Redefines Togetherness — New Yorker
- How to Make Cool Communities and Discord Servers: Literally Just Ban Bigots — The Tax Collector Man
- What to do when you are called in — Angela Jin
- Last Call! Sadly saying goodbye to a community. — Joe Maruschak
- Zero to One: Four Scripts to Spark the Community Design Process — Patrick McCrann
- Building healthy membership communities: Lessons from newsrooms around the world — Membership Puzzle
- Community structure, strategies, KPIs, and networks — Kengo Iwata
🎙 Podcasts & Videos
- Episode 15: Finding Community Nextdoor — Meetup
- 043: Ryan Sneddon – Lessons On Writing Local Newsletters — Nathan Barry
- Managing Community Operations, Supporting the Roadmap, & Enabling a Cohesive Community Experience with Tiffany Oda — Masters of Community
- Episode 60 - Community Platform Vendor Selection and Where Does One Focus — Peers Over Beers
- How to Reward your Superusers w/ Maddie Johannsen — Community Corner
- 85: How to grow a membership using No-Code tools - with Stefan Stefansson — Membership Maker
🗞 News
- Clubhouse is no longer invite-only — The Verge
- Discord threads are on the way to save your channels from clutter — Windows Central
- Tumblr bloggers can soon charge for access to their posts — Engadget
- New studies quantify TikTok's growing impact on culture and music — TikTok
- Salesforce acquires Slack — Slack
Many products are impossible to understand unless you are an active user of them.
— Ian Vanagas (@IanVanagas) July 25, 2021
Discord and Snapchat are two examples. Try to conceptualize them all you want, but using them over a long time to interact with friends will help you truly understand.
"Everybody wanna be a community builder, but nobody wanna talk to no angry ass humans." - Ronnie Coleman
— SPINKS | spinks.eth (@DavidSpinks) July 23, 2021
It's a shame to see so many religious orgs turning to Facebook, as @elizabethjdias reports: https://t.co/fGCKUCGxIe
— Nathan Schneider (@ntnsndr) July 26, 2021
From credit unions to worker co-ops, faith communities have a long history of helping to build the infrastructure for cooperative economies.
Regardless of your opinions on the topic, the decline of religion has left a gaping community hole in society that needs to be filled. https://t.co/Q8IzkM9lxU
— SPINKS | spinks.eth (@DavidSpinks) July 21, 2021
It's rare that I can summarize the problem with an entire industry in one tweet, but here's why every social media site is fucked up: https://t.co/PzDZ6AwHim
— Derek Powazek (@fraying) July 21, 2021
