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2025 Community Trends from 8 Community Strategists
Explore the biggest 2025 community trends from expert strategists. Discover predictions on community growth, engagement, monetization.
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Bri’s Best Bangers of 2024
A compilation of things I (Bri Leever) am watching, reading, listening, feeling, observing, following, and learning.
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Leveraging Other Communities for Growth: The Ultimate Guide
Over this last month, I’ve heard this question more than a few times: how do I leverage my presence in other communities to grow my business
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7 Tips for Starting Community Consulting as an Employee
If I could go back and do it differently, here are 7 things I would change about how I worked my salary job to set me up for consulting.
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Plant, Nurture, Harvest: Community Engagement Analogy
Learn how to think of your community like a garden and how the actions you choose can sustain engagement and activity all year round.
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Lessons from Dissecting 22 Brand Communities on YouTube
Get insights and takeaways from my experience dissecting 22 brand communities live with community professionals.
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Reflections from a 3-Year Community Consultant.
My business turned four last week 🎉and as I looked back over past goal setting, planning, and lists upon lists of issues to overcome, I dec
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Creating High-impact Community Content
Creating high-impact content that strengthens community connections and increases engagement.
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A Guide to Community and Augmented/Virtual Reality
I brought together some of the brightest community + VR minds to discuss the ways that VR could intersect with the community.
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Let the Lurkers Go
Why letting your lurkers go might be the best thing you can do to grow engagement and foster leadership in your community.
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When Communities Must Die to Thrive
How in order to leave a legacy, more communities should consider an ending in order to create a new beginning.
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Lessons from Adventure Playgrounds for Communities
Learn about adventure playgrounds and what they teach us about designing and building community spaces for online brand communities.
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What's your community superpower?
Discover your community superpower. That innate gift that makes you uniquely perfect for your role as a community builder.
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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.
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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...
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The Power of No: Reframing for 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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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