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🤝 Community Building News

• Social Networking 2.0 – Stratechery by Ben Thompson

• Community-based learning gets official designation — Royal Purple 🎉

• Community Building 101 — Christina Garnett

• The Power of Convening for Social Impact — SSIR

• How Content and Community Empower Each Other — Growth Machine 🎧

• Community-based learning gets official designation - Royal Purple

• How 2020 Created Community for Disabled People — Teen Vogue

• The Power of Convening for Social Impact — Sarah Zak Borgman

• Thoughts on Clubhouse — Julian Lehr

• Fostering Inclusivity for Neurodivergent Community Members and Colleagues — Community Signal 🎧

• A home 30 years in the making 🏡Ceyenne Doroshow, G.L.I.T.S. — Get Together 🎧

• Substack explains its ‘hands-off’ approach to content moderation — TechCrunch

• Ben's ten tips for building a community from the ground up — Ben Halpern

🐦 Tweets

Andy McIlwain 🇨🇦 @andymci

This feels like a major factor for folks staying on FB, and FB knows it. Groups are their community moat.

John Doherty #maskupCO @dohertyjf

Anyone know a good way (app/other) to keep Facebook access (for some Groups I need) but removing the rest of it? I’d love to just #deletefacebook but don’t feel like I can.

December 28th 2020

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Evan Hamilton @evanhamilton

When I talk about community internally at Reddit, I often use the words "support" and "nurture". Despite the popular phrasing, communities can't be "managed". Here's how the two approaches compare. 🧵

December 28th 2020

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Mohammed Rafy @rafyasarmatta

Communities normally monetize in two ways: access and status. There is a third way to monetize, few communities take advantage of, knowledge. Incredible piece by @IanVanagas on why communities should create paid content. A thread 👇

December 21st 2020

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Growth Tactics @GrowthTactics

The best brands are growing through community: • Patagonia → Environment-loving adventurers • Strava → Outdoor athletes • Demand Curve → Marketers Help customers feel like they're part of something larger than themselves. They're buying membership in your tribe.

December 21st 2020

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Rachel Happe @rhappe

One of the biggest mistakes made in growing communities is attempting to 'give' community to others. Communities are not transactions - they require contribution and commitment from members. They are co-created. People have to show up - in times of strength and vulnerability.

January 2nd 2021

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Andy McIlwain 🇨🇦 @andymci

"To build an effective brand community, you must reject the premise that everything an organization does or offers must generate profit or exist within a transaction." How Brands Like Google, Twitch, and Sephora Built Brand Communities — and How You Can, TooOver the past few decades, companies, marketing departments, and c-suites have used the term “community” to refer to a smorgasbord of ideas, from wide-ranging organizational investments — such as neighborhood events or charity partnerships — to online forums and even simple email lists.getpocket.com

January 2nd 2021

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Tom Guthrie @TAGuthrie

New lil project: interviewing community builders over at playbook.community. Insights from the first three interviews below 👇

December 31st 2020

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Maricris Bonzo @seemcat

🙋🏻‍♀️Did something fun recently; built a Blog Membership Site with 🪄@magic_labs's secure & easy-to-use passwordless auth, and @webflow's just as seamless visual site editor 👩🏻‍🎨. Here's how: dev.to/seemcat/how-to… ✨ #DEVCommunityHow to Build a Blog Membership Site with Magic Auth and WebflowSet up user authentication in your Webflow site with Magic Auth!dev.to

December 30th 2020

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