Define Community. Uncommunity #46
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Welcome to the latest issue of Uncommunity - the newsletter that helps you become a better community builder. We bring you community experts’ interviews, content on communities, tools to scale community or events, and jobs to be applied.
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On to this week’s hoardings:
What are we reading/listening to?
Why Community Professionals Should Walk Away From Their Desks. A post in honor of Mental Health Awareness Month by Jenny Weigle.
The New Community Manager Handbook. The Community Roundtable introduces The NEW Community Manager Handbook ridden with ideas and inspiration for your community work, and challenges you to try something new. Get it here.
[EVENT] Driving High Engagement: How To Drastically Increase Participation from Newcomers and Veterans in Your Community by Richard Millington. RSVP here.
The complexity in defining community.
“What is community?”. An accepted mathematical definition for a community is yet to hit the literature. Existing definitions are conceptual, and vary from very formal to loose, depending mainly on the structure of the underlying network. Some of the definitions are also constructive, the result of algorithmic steps. To sum up, I’ll save you reading the next couple of paragraphs, there is no definitive answer.
Read the post here.
[EVENT] Customer Community Summit. In person event by The Community Roundtable. The Customer Community Summit, happening in Boston, is open to all online community management professionals, and their teams, stakeholders, and partners. Register and share it with your friends!
An Insider’s Perspective on the Best Places to Meet Other Community Leaders. Taylor Harrington lists all the best places to get resources and meet other community managers like you here. (Congrats on subscribing to one of the newsletter already ;) )
The Importance of ERGs: How APIs at Yelp Built Community In Response to Violence. Read the first hand account and get the checklist to start one at your workplace here.
[EVENT] Empathy Matters in Dev Communities. Conversation with Drew Kreiger of StreamSets. Set the reminder on.
Community as a Channel for Creation. From leisure to learning, culture to location, professional work to farming, people gather together to connect and share around varying interests.
But what if more could be done by these groups of people?
Automations for your Content Calendar. Tiffany Oda shares the Content Calendar setup that she implemented at her company, including the detailed automation configurations.
Expanding Local Reach – Online Communities and Chapter Engagement.
Many association chapters are already using online community models to keep their members engaged, long before organizations had no other choice (at least for the time being). So, what is the value that it provides to local engagement?
Read here.
[FREE COURSE] Understanding Capital "C" Communities. Hearing the word “community” but not sure what it all means in the context of your business? Here, you’ll get to know the difference between audience and community, how to conceptualize the impact community can have on your business, and what differentiates a true “capital C community” from traditional broadcast marketing channels. Enroll and start learning here.
[PODCASTS]
The Value of Discovery with Theresa Anderson. Tune in.
How community can humanize business with Nick Mehta. Listen.
Communities are Conversations with Carrie M. Jones.
How to Become a Trusted Advisor and Brand - Matthew Hunt, Founder of Automation Wolf. Listen.
Well, @MarketingBrew said it:
Show up, period.
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