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7. Dealing with Toxic Members: Insights from Reddit with Andrea Middleton
Our letter today deals with a toxic community member stirring up trouble to revolt against the community manager.
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6. Balancing Community Care and Business Goals with Jelani Memory, VP & Publisher at DK
Our letter today deals with creating a vibrant and engaged community under the pressure of big business goals.
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5. Managing Critical Community Members with Ami Defesche
The inspiration stems from a late-night LinkedIn DM from a distressed community manager handling a tumultuous Discord community.
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Quiz: Which Community Fits Your Business?
The 4 types of communities each come with their own strengths and challenges for your business. Find out which one is the right fit for you!
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4. Should We Still Use Slack for Communities? With Noele Flowers
Our letter today deals with the question of where to host a new community. Specifically as it relates to slack and all-in-one platforms like
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3. Avoiding Burnout as a Community Leader With Taylor Harrington, Head of Community at Groove
Our letter today comes from someone who clearly has a big heart for their community, but is also really struggling to draw boundaries.
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2. Cohort vs. Membership Model: Insights from Akimbo CEO.
Our letter today comes from a community manager struggling with the decision between a cohort-based model and a membership community model.
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1. Did I just blow my one shot at launching a paid community? With Evan Hamilton, Director of Community at HubSpot
Our letter today deals with a private networking community. They are wondering how to go from a 1-year discovery phase into their launch.
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Introducing Dear Bri: Advice for Community Strategy
On this podcast, I collect anonymous letters from real-life community creators and bring on an expert from the community space to help them!
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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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Dissecting 38 Online Communities: Insights, Trends, and Awards
After dissecting 38 communities across industries, I’m sharing my insights, takeaways, and the highlight reel of some of my favorite communi
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A High-Impact Brand Community that Isn’t Sale-sy
If you’ve followed this series, you’ll quickly find that over the last year I’ve been drawn more and more towards memberships!
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Lifebook Community on Mighty Networks
On this episode we explore the Lifebook Membership community hosted on Mighty Networks.
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Debunking 5 Myths About Membership Communities.
Inspired by conversations with community experts and observations across dozens of communities, here's the top five myths I see in community
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Inside Rosieland’s Community Ecosystem
Our favorite community empire: Rosieland! In this episode we take a look at Rosieland’s recent migration over to the new community platform.
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The Community Experience in Co-working App-Groove
Join us for a dissection of the member experience in Groove - a fabulous co-working app for creators and solopreneurs worldwide.
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Barbie Global Community
The creators of Barbie movie created the biggest, pinkest marketing tidal wave the world has ever seen...
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The Best Community-Centered Product: Groove
Join me as I interview Taylor Harrington to dissect one of the best examples of a community-centered product I’ve ever seen.
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Slack’s World-Class Cohort Community Example
In this episode we dissect the evolution of the Community Community for seasoned Community Professionals.
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How Lenny’s Newsletter Became a Community
How in the world can a Slack community with several thousand members facilitate a welcoming experience?
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