The end of the office
By Seth Godin
As social creatures, many people very much need a place to go, a community to be part of, a sense of belonging and meaning. But it’s not at all clear that the 1957 office building is the best way to solve those problems.
Monthly Recurring Relationships
By Rosie Sherry
If Monthly Recurring Relationships was a community metric, what would the formula be?
- An Update on Racial Equity at Discord Through Inclusion, Diversity and Purpose Efforts — Discord
- Clubhouse Is a Cargo Cult — Ian Vanagas
- My first-hand account of training TikTok to steal my essence — New Public
- How to Turn Online Friends Into IRL Ones — Wired
- Even a social network for doctors is struggling with vaccine misinformation — Engadget
- It has never felt more lonely to be — The Grand
- Roblox: Gaming, the Creator Economy, and the Metaverse — Peter Yang
- The ultimate guide to audience engagement — Masooma Memon, Vimeo
- TOP 10 NFT collectible communities...rated by me! — Carmen Taubman
- Six tips for building communities of practice — Malin Sandström and Lou Woodley
- How Fortnite Became the Modern-Day Community Center — Limarc Ambalina
- Teaching with Care: Why Community is at the Heart of Successful Pedagogy — Juli S. Charkes and Mitch Fried
- The effect of the “Twitter ban” on online communities in Nigeria — Jephtah Abu
🎙 Podcasts & Videos
- Aging Gracefully, Lessons on Friendships — Meetup
- Membership cancelation strategies - with Stefan Stefansson — Membership Maker
- What it takes to run a paid online community (8+ years) — Justin Jackson
- Episode 62 - Presenting a Business Case to get More Headcount For Community — Peers Over Beers
- Communities of Practice with Emily Webber — Making Tech Better
🗞 News
- Crypto community slams ‘disastrous’ new amendment to Biden’s big infrastructure bill — TechCrunch
- “The puzzle turned out to be more complicated than we thought”: After four years, the Membership Puzzle Project is winding down — NiemanLab
- 1 big thing: We've stopped building churches — Axios
Virtual events are changing our notions of what content people *really* want.
— Jono Bacon (@jonobacon) August 9, 2021
Practical, in-depth edu. content is in.
Waffly, abstract keynotes are out.
Virtual events shouldn't be bundles of webinars. They need to offer something new.
I love the experimentation going on!
Many "community builders" never talk to their community.
— Ryan Hoover (@rrhoover) August 8, 2021
How do you build a strong community without being part of it?
🤔 Developer Relations involves a lot more than writing code.
— ɥɔɐoɹ (@roach) December 11, 2018
DevRel is:
- building relationships and fostering trust
- collecting and relaying feedback to other teams
- helping people work through challenges
- inspiring people to build
- building tools to empower
- mentorship
"I would much rather have 500 really amazing fans than 5,000 or 50,000 disengaged fans." - guest @crystallyn on episode 71 of the #TwitterSmarter podcasthttps://t.co/F8wYrZrJ1a pic.twitter.com/EB72TN36Hb
— Madalyn Sklar Becoming #NFTsmarter (@MadalynSklar) August 7, 2021
Companies need to understand that hiring is deeply personal. They are building a community of professionals, not filling headcounts. If they don't put their team members in the spotlight, they miss out showing the world who they are and who people can learn from if they join. pic.twitter.com/Qa25SDNqCy
— Markus Tacker (he/him) 🇳🇴 (@coderbyheart) August 7, 2021
✅Working with #communities .#Community profession is not new.
— Tina Amper 🚢 (@am_tins) August 7, 2021
✅We did the work under different titles in the past. Marketing, Customer Success, Support, Social Media, Project Management, etc Glad Cmty industry is booming
✅ Ageism is real. Which sector doesnt have this? https://t.co/AxzTaVIIZI
We can profit on Attention.
— eddie briseño 🌎 (@EddieBrisenyo) August 7, 2021
But is it a renewable resource?
"I wish I had more founder friends in ___." really isn't a lack of communities problem, it's a discovery problem.
— Alex Friedman 🤠 (@heyalexfriedman) August 5, 2021
So, the team at @TalkHowdy decided to try to fix that. Why? bc life's a lot better when you're surrounded by the right people.https://t.co/0CzRzndN1d
Saw a bit of a heated discussion in a community I’m in today - and curious your thoughts:
— Erin Mikail Staples (@erinmikail) August 5, 2021
How do you allow room for a healthy difference of opinion?
What will your community absolutely *not tolerate*?
What are things you do to encourage discussion + uncertainty?
Controversial view:
— Tom Ross (@tomrossmedia) August 5, 2021
Give your potential community members a few more hoops to jump through prior to joining. If they’re not willing to go through a little work to get access, they likely won’t be engaged once they’re inside.
Best way to filter the kind of members you want 👍
How to scale community events:
— Max Rothery (@maximillianroth) August 4, 2021
- Post 'Apply to Host' Form
- Write templates & guidelines
- Create feedback loops
- Promote top hosts to leaders
- Incentivize leaders to train hosts
- Empower decision makers
Get out of the way & spend your time removing friction.
Most community moderation is invisible, and never gets the credit it deserves. Many communities are thought of as good because their moderation keep them that way.
— Ian Vanagas (@IanVanagas) August 4, 2021
“Each avatar club is a strange combination of gated online community, stock-shareholding group, and art-appreciation society.”
— Andrew Claremont (@andymci) August 3, 2021
Online yacht clubs for apes and other NFT collectives: https://t.co/XPxJsvqtrL pic.twitter.com/mgv5xJvm32
most of my ETH wasn’t bought using USD, it was earned thru hard work and participation
— dame.eth (@damedoteth) August 3, 2021
Imagine a social media system where, instead of everybody being able to yell at everybody from the outset, you had to *earn* the ability to interact with others.
— Derek Powazek (@fraying) August 3, 2021
