π Hello again from Rosieland!
Another week is here and I'm bringing you something new β a Rosieland forum! I've affectionately called The Village. You see, Rosieland is a land, and it needs places within it to go. π€£
The Village is one such place.
A forum is important because I feel there is so much to share and discuss in the community world. These are things that need love, curating, discussing and collaborating on. A chat space like Slack or Discord have their purposes, but I believe in forums for longer-term, intentional, findable and deeper discussions that can all bring bigger impact.
The community world needs it. And to be frank, I keep asking questions on Twitter, but really I should be doing those and other forms of loose ideas and notes on a forum.
The Village is live and in transition. There will be more categories and improvements coming soon. I just want to focus on shipping and keep moving forward.
ππ½ Please join, this is free and for everyone.
Here are some discussions that may be of interest:
- What would you like to see less of in the community craft?
- How would you measure the ROI on this Webflow Community Grants initiative?
- Tell me the mistakes you made in your first Community Manager role
- Whatβs your go to tech stack?
- What are forums great for?
- Meta list of best templates and resoures for managing up the chain to c-suite!
Onwards to more in the community world...
β Articles & Blogs
- How Community Managers Can Use Three Simple Questions to Discover Who Belongs β Simon Tomes
- π Kickstarting Your Community: Build Your Minimum Viable Community β A Rosieland course
- Offensive and Defensive Community Onboarding β Ian Vanagas
- End-to-end community attribution: Quantifying impact from a revenue perspective β Steven Yum
- How to Build and Grow a Developer Champion Program β Luca Buchholz, Camunda
- Community Plumbing β Places Journal
- Issue #58: Bravery and Belonging β Future of Belonging
- Inside the bubble β Seth Godin
- Community Saves the World β The Vital Edge
- Lessons From 19 Years in the Metaverse β Charlie Warzel
π€ Podcasts
- 62: Read the room β IB4TL
- Deepfakes in Your Community are Inevitable β Community Signal
- Episode 83 - Special Guest Jake McKee - Dinner 5, User Testing and Onboarding β Peers Over Beers
- Episode 32: Becoming a Proactive Introvert β Meetup
- Community Conversations β Episode #80: Marjorie Anderson β The Community Roundtable
π©π½βπ» Jobs
- Community Operations Manager β Business of Community
- Head of Creator Community β Patreon
- Community Manager β Pesto
We currently have β¨ 24 people in our Rosieland Talent Pool β¨. If you're looking for your next community role then join as a candidate or get access if you are actively hiring.
π Events
- π A Brainstorm: Ecommerce x Community β Rosieland
- π A Rosieland Guide to Community Marketing β Rosieland
- π Community Chat β Rosieland
- Hybrid Events on a Budget β Bramble
π Resources, Tools & Communities
- Think Links icebreakers Miro board template by Emily Webber
- Letter Exchange β Letter Exchange is a group of skilled professionals representing the full range of lettering disciplines from calligraphy and letter cutting to typography and font design.
- Open Source Design β Bringing great design to Open Source Software
- Webflow Community Grants β investing $10,000,000 into the Webflow community through grants and reimbursements to start and scale community-led events and resources.
- π Mastering Community β Christine Porath
π News
- Twitter Continues to Evolve Communities and Other Topic-Based Engagement Options in the App β Social Media Today
- Following suicides and lawsuits, Snapchat restricts apps building on its platform with new policies β TechCrunch
- CSS-Tricks is joining DigitalOcean! β CSS-Tricks
π¦ Tweets
Community isnβt about increasing engagement.
— Max Rothery (@maximillianroth) March 21, 2022
Itβs about enabling your members to participate meaningfully in your mission.
Communities don't start as communities.
— Rosie Sherry (@rosiesherry) March 21, 2022
They start as conversations.
It's conversations first.
Then, maybe community.
Easy and effective community building habits you can start today:
— David Spinks (@DavidSpinks) March 19, 2022
- Make one personal introduction every day
- Post one discussion starter every day
- Do a 1-1 call with a member every week
- DM and thank one member every day
- Reply to one post with a quality answer every day
This essay on community building as a moat blew up π, so we decided to make publicπhttps://t.co/PoFsW32euK https://t.co/I2dOufP0zc
— Iman (@iman_olya) March 18, 2022
There's something uncomfortable about the casual labelling of ways of living and coping, like 'Goblin Mode'
— Serena Ωβ in London (@serenastweeting) March 17, 2022
Some thoughts from an emotional support and community perspective... π§΅πhttps://t.co/J1FSK26N9Q
What was the last community you left and why?
— Michelle Sims (@MichelleSims_) March 17, 2022
My previous community onboarding (selfish): Make sure you engage once inside! Itβs really important to show up!
— Tom Ross πΊπ¦ (@tomrossmedia) March 16, 2022
My new community onboarding (member focused): Whether youβre a passive or active member, thereβs a place for you here, and weβve structured things to meet your needs.