Rosieland Roundup 177 - Change making is lonely. Until it isn't.

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Change making is lonely.

A huge part of community building is about change making. And it gets lonely.

Until it (hopefully) isn’t.

Look for the light at the end of the tunnel. ❤️

Audio Spaces for Bluesky

It’s early days for Bluesky and I’m a little bit excited (to get away from Twitter), especially as I start to see people building upon it. Skyspaces, audio spaces for Bluesky is one such example that I stumbled across.

Communities of Practice — All things must pass

This image comes from Drew Pontkis and this is part seven of a series on communities of practice.

The potential magical mixture economics + community

🐰 Help, I went down a rabbit hole!

I often talk about community + business, but community + economics feels like a whole different and exciting combination.

I’m especially interested and perhaps excited (🤓) about how this post talks about how economics is very transactional and doesn’t really consider the more human aspects.

What examples of community care work apply to your community?

Is community care the glue that keeps our work going?

“Care work is at the heart of good governance for the operation of any collective.”

Website builders as a community product

Indie Hackers launched a profile page creator which is essentially a small website builder. This is a very common SaaS idea and it’s great to see experimentation of bringing this to communities.

🌈 This week in Rosieland

• Design for Belonging: a Notion resource
• Principles for building stronger groups and thriving communities
• Where has community management taken you?
• Using Discourse as a platform for community + courses

📝 This week in community

• How an undercover content moderator polices the metaverse — MIT Technology Review
• Digital Community Leaders — Rosie Sherry — Pete Heslop 🎤
• Drivers of your community: how they work and what you should know (Part 1) — How to Community
• Bluesky’s big moment — Casey Newton — Platformer
• Creating Space for Social Connection and Running — The Run Club Collective
• Stop Closing Forums For Discords, They Are Not The Same Thing — Kotaku

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