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upcoming events

Building a community design system.

The importance of language in gathering

The Role of a Community Advocate 

Purpose of online play in human connection

Words

Join Rosie Sherry and Erin Mikail Staples for a weekly community Twitter Space.

We’ll be holding conversations about the latest community trends, what we’re excited for, and fundamental skills about community building. Drop in, join us for a casual conversation + bring your questions — we'll open it up for questions the last 15 minutes!

Are Decentralized Autonomic Organizations (DAO's) the future of community building?  What is a DAO? Who holds folks in DAO's accountable? What should we be aware of as we approach the next community frontier? Is this more hype than substance?

Community wouldn’t be community without you and your ideas! 🧠✨

Have something you’re itching to talk about with the brightest minds in the galaxy? Curious about something in particular in the community space?  Have someone you’re dying to speak with?

 and she’ll make some magic happen! 🪄

Community Twitter Space

Let’s get together and love to learn for the sake of learning.

Happy Build Hour

Join us for a creator community beer hour on July 13!

We'll be gathering at Other Half Brewing to chat about creator things, online communities and more!

Creator Community Beer Hours

Creator Community Beer Hour

Come together — creators, community builders, and beer enthusiasts

​We're hanging for casual creator community beers once a week on Tuesdays, hosted by 

​Location changes week by week — submit your favorite Brooklyn or NYC spot when you register and we'll queue it up for next week.

Creator Community Beers — July 27

In The Observatory newsletter Rosie raised the idea that all communities start with a conversation.

This one hour workshop aims to dive more into how we can build communities and relationships through conversations.

 as a platform to workshop together. Please come prepared to think and participate in any way you can. 💜

The art of community conversations.

Creator Community Beer — August 3

Join us at Other Half Brewing for an Orbit Community Meetup.

Join other founders, community builders, creators, and generally fun people at Other Half Brewing in Domino Park

We'll be on the patio out front at Other Half Brewing at Domino Park — 

Orbit is mission control for your community

, which empowers you to grow and measure your community across any platform. Join more than 4,000 users who use Orbit to build their communities. 🪐

Orbit: NY Mission 001

Join us for Creator Beer Club — a weekly meet up for those in the creator / creator-adjacent space to learn more about this industry and to connect with those in it. 

August 17, 2021: Patio of Talea Brewing Co. in Brooklyn NYC

Creator Beer Club: August 17, 2021

Join us for a casual creator beer gathering — work in the creator space or creator-adjacent, we'd love to have you! 

See you on the patio of Other Half Brewing in Domino Park at 7PM Tuesday August 24th! 

Creator Beer Club — August 24, 2021

Join us for Creator Beer Club — a weekly meet up for those in the creator / creator-adjacent space to learn more about this industry and to connect with those in it.

Sept 15, 2021: Patio of Talea Brewing Co. in Brooklyn NYC

Creator Beer Club @ Talea Brewing

We're hosting themed Study Groups here at 

 where we will gather on a regular basis to dive in together on topics of interest.

 We believe there are so many ways to learn with community and we'd love to explore it more.

 will lead the way in facilitating this session to cover discussions related to transformational peer-led learning in relation to community.

Come and join in to talk about things like:

We'll be using Butter & Miro. The session will (hopefully) be recorded. 🤞🏻

Study Group: An exploration in peer-led learning experiences

Creator Beer Club @ Other Half Brewing — Domino Park

Before Community: An Orbit Community Sprint

Join us for a free one-week community-driven sprint focusing on what to do before you build a community.

At the heart of communities are people, yet when we build communities we often start with anything but them.

In this one-week sprint, we will work together to help you think about the things you need to do before you build your community.

- how to do meaningful community research

: how to use Community Discovery and Conversations to inform your goals

- a private Discord channel for chat (join us on the 

- yes, recordings, only where relevant, will be made available

- this experience is best experienced through active participation

Heads up! This is a week-long cohort-type learning sprint. The first session will start on Monday October, 4th. 

Keep up with the latest about Orbit — Join the 

Before Community: An Orbit Learning Sprint

We’re hosting themed Study Groups here at 

 where we will gather on a regular basis to dive in together on topics of interest.

 Community roles are expanding in the world of community - Community Operations is one such role that has always happened but not necessarily given the name for. All communities need efficient processes behind the scenes.

In this session, Sara will lead the way in facilitating this session, covering: 

We’ll be using Butter & Miro. The session will (hopefully) be recorded.  

Study Group: Getting Started with Community Operations

How do community creators make money? What should communities keep in mind as they grow? 

Dive into a 1 hour twitter space event with Rosie Sherry and Erin Mikail Staples as they break down the economics behind community building and community creatorship.

The Economics of Community

Join Fellow Creators as we connect with one another + learn more about each other's craft over a cold one!

Creator Beer Club @ Evil Twin NYC DUMBO

 If you’re on Twitter, you’ve probably noticed some kind of web3 related tweet - maybe about an NFT, a DAO, or some kind of crypto-related project. We’d love to explore what these concepts mean and how they’re forming the new internet.

In this session, Developer Advocate at Magic and Community Manager at Blockchain Ladies Club -

, will lead the way in facilitating this session by covering topics that beginners in web3 should be familiar with.

We’ll be using Butter & Miro. The session will (hopefully) be recorded. ✌🏻

Study Group: Decrypting Web 3.0

 We believe there are so many ways to grow communities and we're here to explore ideas around them.

In this session, we're going to take a dive into Monthly Recurring Relationships with a focus on explore the following question:

Monthly Recurring Relationships (MRR)was a community metric

​We'll be using Butter & Miro. The session will (hopefully) be recorded. 🤞🏻

Study Group: Monthly Recurring Relationships

Join us at Talea Beer Co. for an Orbit Community Meetup 🔭

Join the fun with other founders, community builders, creators, and generally rad folks at 

Vaccines are required indoors + will be checked in accordance with Talea Beer Co.s + New York City's 

Orbit: NYC Mission 002

Community Space: Community Strategy for Podcasters

Podcasters and audio creators have been building community either through creating content, connecting audience members, or facilitating conversations over a specific topic.

 about how to think about community strategy for your podcast.

no, this conversation will not be recorded! 

How can authentic communities build trust in newsrooms?

Join Erin Mikail Staples and Waqas Ahmed for a live discussion on Twitter Spaces on how newsrooms + journalists can use community building skills to facilitate trust and understanding.

We'll be creating a shared notes document and sharing it after the chat as well.

Community and Trust In News

Oct 27, 2021: Patio of Talea Brewing Co. in Brooklyn NYC

Creator Beer Club: Talea Beer Co.

Starting Community: An Orbit Learning Sprint

Join us for a free one-week community-driven learning sprint focusing on how to get started with creating a community.

Once you've done your community research and homework it becomes easier to know where to start.

In this one-week sprint we will work together to help you take action on starting your community.

: experimenting and doing things that don't scale is crucial when starting out.

: how to practically set a community culture

: conversations are at the heart of community, though the types of conversations at each stage vary. We will focus on ones that matter most when starting community.

Heads up! This is a week-long cohort-type learning sprint. It starts on Monday November, 1st. 

Starting Community: Community Conversations

The use of Discord has exploded over the last year!

And you've likely been invited to join a Discord server or two as a result.

If you're new to the platform — welcome! Join us for a one-hour session as we explore the basics, together!

Have a question you want to be sure that it gets answered? Let Erin Mikail Staples know via 

Discord 101 — Let's explore together!

The community creator economy is a subsection of the creator economy that specifically focuses on those who are leveraging their networks, communities or their fandom in order to generate value." 

This study group is going to explore what it means to be a community creator and how it differs from traditional community management. 

 — he is crazy passionate about challenges, that’s why he loves everything related to communities and the journey of creating a space where connection is beyond transaction.

Study Group: Community Creators 101

We’re hosting themed Study Groups here at 

 If you’re part of #community Twitter, and you haven’t seen a tweet about Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs) - then it’s more than likely you’re living under a rock 😅. 

And that’s OKAY! This is why we’re here. All you need to know is that DAOs are the next big thing in web3 - after NFTs. DAOs are a new way for people to coordinate how they achieve things together. That is, with a set of rules that are enforced on a blockchain.

, will guide you DAOn the DAO rabbit hole so that you can discover the role that you can play in the magical web3 metaverse of DAOs.

Here are a few of the many questions we’ll be answering:

​We’ll be using Butter & Miro. The session will  be recorded. ✌🏻

Study Group: DAOn the Rabbit Hole We Go

Join us for a Twitter Spaces discussing if Web 3.0 communities are actually driving community, or if its just the latest buzzword online.

These spaces value kindness, integrity, honesty, questioning with the intention to understand — and most importantly, nuance.

Catch us on Spaces, bring your questions!

WITH NUANCE: Is Web 3.0 really driving community?

Study Group: Community Operations for Events

This is an Orbit Community Learning Sprint Week where we are focusing on ideas and perspectives to help you nurture and grow your community.

Growth is crucial for communities generally speaking it comes in conversations, creating value and building trust. However, community builders need to take a different approach compared to how other parts of a business traditionally grows.

As leaders, founders and community builders just having a community is often not good enough — we also want a successful and growing one. As community builders, we are under pressure to drive growth without a clear understanding of what that can actually mean.

A 'good community' is open to interpretation and is always context-dependent. As a growing industry, we must seek an understanding of what it means to grow as a community and how we can communicate and collaborate with other teams.

Growing Community — What does growth even mean?

We lack mental models, metaphors and frameworks when it comes to thinking how to think about growing communities.

✨  we understand what and why it works

And the concept of Community Flywheels fits nicely into all these things.

Growing Community — A Guide to Building Community Flywheels

a framework for building high-gravity communities

. A high gravity community is one that excels at attracting and retaining members by providing an outstanding member experience.

The Orbit Model can be used in so many ways to help you strategize and plan your community. In this context we are going to dive into strategies, tactics and ideas on how to use the framework and the tool to help you grow your community.

✨  What growth means in the context of community and The Orbit Model

✨ How to think about community activities

Growing Community — Using the Orbit Model with a growth mindset.

Earlier this year Patrick Woods wrote about why 

we need Go-To-Community as a community strategy, not just Go-To-Market

 and we are totally on board with this idea!

In this session we will present a draft concept of a Go-To-Community Framework:

✨ What do we need to think about, as community builders for Go-To-Community?

✨ What should be in or out of scope with a Go-To-Community approach?

✨ How is it different from Go-To-Market?

✨ What should be the overall structure of a Go-To-Community approach?

We are presenting in progress ideas and thoughts and will be looking for feedback to implement into the final version.

Growing Community — Building a Go-To-Community framework.

We'll be ending this week with a Twitter Spaces gathering to share love and war stories on community growth.

Come to listen or to speak with the intention to share your own stories of growing communities. Whether they are success or failure stories there is always something to learn

Community Growth — Community Growth Stories

As the year comes to an end — join us for a mix and mingle fun get-together of community beings for some fun, reflection, and wintergalactic shenanigans.

This event will be held on Butter and is totally free to attend. 

Join folks working in community, developer relations, or even those curious to know more about the above + celebrate the year we've had.

Orbit Wintergalactic Gathering ❄️

 where we will gather on a regular basis to dive in together on topics of interest. 

One such Study Group is Community Operations. 

Community roles are expanding in the world of community - 

 is one such role that has always happened but not necessarily given the name for. All communities need efficient processes behind the scenes. ​

In this session, led by Sara, we will cover:

Study Group: Operations for Onboarding

 and other community builders on as we explore what a community journey is and how we can go about planning, designing and creating them.

Study Group: Community Journeys

Wishing you had an extra hand or just want to see the possibilities you can do within Orbit?

Join Erin Mikail Staples + Bryan Robinson at Orbit for Orbit Office Hours!

Bring your questions, comments, projects, and community initiatives and we'll help you make sure they're a success!

This event will take place LIVE on Discord Stages and will NOT be recorded.

Community Space: Orbit Office Hours

In this Study Group attendees will learn the importance of identifying community segments, how to create activities that engage each segment and how to measure it all within Orbit.

and other community builders as we explore the universe of community building together at 

Creating Gravity: Defining and Providing Value for your Community Segments

Wishing you had an extra hand or want to see the possibilities you can do within Orbit?

Join Erin Mikail Staples + Bryan Robinson Orbit Office Hours!

This event will take place LIVE on in the Orbit Discord and will NOT be recorded.

Join members of the community + product team as we go through some of the latest features within Orbit!

We’ll exploring new updates + releases, and diving deep into our upcoming roadmap as we chat about our latest product updates, offer up a sneak peek of what’s to come and share insights on best practices.

Changelog Friday: What's New At Orbit?

A strong community is a community where individuals are empowered and encouraged to share openly. This sharing can take many forms: personal anecdotes, professional updates, and off-topic jokes are all signs of a healthy community. 

What makes a community healthy and useful to all involved is a sense of open knowledge sharing. This can take the shape of answering questions, sharing use cases, showcasing interesting projects, or showing workflows or code snippets.

In this study group, we’ll explore why this is an important goal for community advocates to work toward, how you can foster an environment of experimentation in your community, what sorts of tools work best for this sort of sharing and how to report the benefits of a communal inspiration program back to your team.

Study Group: Communal Inspiration – Creating a community of open sharing

Join Erin Mikail Staples + Bryan Robinson for Orbit Office Hours!

Seeking Feedback: How do you build a community-driven product feedback loop?

Community has been all the rage as of late, and specifically product communities that choose to enable both their internal team, and empower community members to make better, more informed decisions in the future.

In this study group — attendees will learn how to facilitate effective product feedback loops that empower not only their community but their internal teams as well.

At the end of this group, you will be able to:

 on this Orbit Study Group, a collaborative educational experience where we all learn together. 

Study Group: Seeking Feedback, Building Community-Driven Product Feedback Loops.

We'll be exploring the latest features and releases on what's happening at Orbit.  

Changelog Friday: March 2022

 who took lead on this project, and answering your questions!

High Gravity: A Community Magazine Launch

How do you approach moderation in your community?

Moderation is a tough conversation and one that can stir up high emotions and feelings within your own community. It can feel like you’re always in a hard conversation and there’s no winning for anyone.