This week in community — Issue 124

🌈 Hello again from Rosieland!

Another week is here and I'm bringing you something new — a Rosieland forum! I've affectionately called The Village. You see, Rosieland is a land, and it needs places within it to go. 🤣

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.

🙏🏽 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
• What’s 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...

✍ Articles & Blogs

• How Community Managers Can Use Three Simple Questions to Discover Who Belongs — Simon Tomes
• 🌈 Kickstarting Your Community: Build Your Minimum Viable Community — A Rosieland course
• Offensive and Defensive Community Onboarding — Ian Vanagas
• End-to-end community attribution: Quantifying impact from a revenue perspective — Steven Yum
• How to Build and Grow a Developer Champion Program — Luca Buchholz, Camunda
• Community Plumbing — Places Journal
• Issue #58: Bravery and Belonging — Future of Belonging
• Inside the bubble — Seth Godin
• Community Saves the World — The Vital Edge
• Lessons From 19 Years in the Metaverse — Charlie Warzel

🎤 Podcasts

• 62: Read the room — IB4TL
• Deepfakes in Your Community are Inevitable — Community Signal
• Episode 83 - Special Guest Jake McKee - Dinner 5, User Testing and Onboarding — Peers Over Beers
• Episode 32: Becoming a Proactive Introvert — Meetup
• Community Conversations – Episode #80: Marjorie Anderson — The Community Roundtable

👩🏽‍💻 Jobs

• Community Operations Manager — Business of Community
• Head of Creator Community — Patreon
• Community Manager — Pesto

We currently have ✨ 24 people in our Rosieland Talent Pool ✨. If you're looking for your next community role then join as a candidate or get access if you are actively hiring.

🗓 Events

• 🌈 A Brainstorm: Ecommerce x Community — Rosieland
• 🌈 A Rosieland Guide to Community Marketing — Rosieland
• 🌈 Community Chat — Rosieland
• Hybrid Events on a Budget — Bramble

🛠 Resources, Tools & Communities

• Think Links icebreakers Miro board template by Emily Webber
• Letter Exchange — 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 — Bringing great design to Open Source Software
• Webflow Community Grants — investing $10,000,000 into the Webflow community through grants and reimbursements to start and scale community-led events and resources.
• 📚 Mastering Community — Christine Porath

🗞 News

• Twitter Continues to Evolve Communities and Other Topic-Based Engagement Options in the App — Social Media Today
• Following suicides and lawsuits, Snapchat restricts apps building on its platform with new policies — TechCrunch
• CSS-Tricks is joining DigitalOcean! — CSS-Tricks

🐦 Tweets