Insights

Your community might need to die in order to live on

How in order to leave a legacy, more communities should consider an ending in order to create a new beginning.

What Adventure Playgrounds Teach us About Community Building

Learn about adventure playgrounds and what they teach us about designing and building community spaces for online brand communities.

What's your community superpower?

Discover your community superpower. That innate gift that makes you uniquely perfect for your role as a community builder.

Lessons from another year running my business(es)

Four lessons Bri Leever learned from running her brand community consulting business and campervan rental side hustle on Hawaii island.

The Community-led School That Wasn’t

I recently had a fascinating conversation with fellow community builder Derrick Chiu. He shared that a few months ago, he joined a...

The Power of No: How Reframing Questions Gets Better Results

I spend a lot of my time communicating with people and getting them to do new things they haven’t done before. I can't convince anyone to...

A Love Letter to a Terrified Former Self

It was my first KPI meeting of my career. My manager was explaining the concepts of attrition and retention and I had a number in front...

Ember Land Acknowledgment

Pictured: The Summit of Mauna Kea, a sacred mountain to the Hawaiian people, standing at almost 14,000 feet, whose area has been overrun...

3 Things I Learned When I Started Ember

This past week, a friend reached out to talk about starting her own endeavor. I find myself so grateful for the pause to reflect on all...