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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

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.

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

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

 for a discussion on what should we call web 3 communities:

We'll be using Butter for hosting this session and we also plan to use Google Docs for collaborative note taking. 

You are welcome to attend to observe, to ask questions, or feel free to join in too.

What should Web 3 communities be called?

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

 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

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! 

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 

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. 🪐

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

✨ Paid members of Rosieland access this for free. 

(Sometimes life gets in the way of things. I've updated this session to be a single 2 hour session November 18th)

Growing one to become sustainable and profitable is often the dream, however, the reality is different.

👋 Hi, I'm Rosie. I  ❤️ community building. I've done local tech meetups. Bootstrapped a community to $1.5m in annual revenue (

I have a soft spot for building meaningful and sustainable communities that create impact. I'm going to go on a deep dive into building communities that also make money.

This is what we're going to be doing and making:

Note: Workshop 1 & 2 are live and recorded sessions. Everything else will be accessible resources after the event.

A Rosieland Guide to Creating Profitable and Sustainable Communities

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

Most of us probably know about UGC — User Generated Content.

CCC — Community Created Content, or CGC — Community Generated Content

One of the things I'm actively exploring is the multiple things we do as community builders that don't yet have a name associated with them.

Community Created Content isn't necessarily a new idea, many of us have been doing this for years.

However, by giving it a name we can be more explicit about what it means and what value it can bring to communities.

In this session, I will talk about and share ideas around what Community Created Content is. There will also be time to contribute to the discussion too — through voice, video or text-based chat.

We will use Butter and a Google Doc as our tech stack. 

If you choose to actively participate you can do so through text chat, voice/video and a Google Doc for collaborative notes.

Community Created Content

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 ❄️

End your work week with a casual community chat in our Rosieland voice channel on Discord.

These are drop in sessions that are not recorded.

No set agenda and a great opportunity to talk community and make friends. ❤️

Community Chat

Join us for our 100th day of Twitter Spaces, where we and maybe you too could be talking about The Future of Community.

Day 100 — The Future of Community

We're hosting an open brainstorm, discussion and note taking session on e-commerce and community.

 as our tools of choice during the session.

👍 Yes, it will be recorded and made available afterwards.

A Brainstorm: Ecommerce x Community

You know that community is not marketing, but do you know what community marketing is?

Come take a dive into the concept of community marketing.

This is free to attend. Recordings, slides and notes will be made available to paid members.

❤️ Support independent creators. ❤️

A Rosieland Guide to Community Marketing

There are so many community platforms. So many new and different ways to gather!

, we will take a new platform every month and put it to the test: we’ll design a gathering using the platform’s tools and share our experience every step of the way.

Along the way, you’ll see the strengths and nuances of each tool and in what ways it might be useful to you.

This is our first Episode and we will be exploring 

Test Kitchen - GatherTown

At Rosieland we believe intentional conversations lead to community, so here we are running a series of community conversations.

Community conversations are led by a very small group of people, but others are invited in to observe or contribute.

. We've only just 'met and conversed on Twitter'. 

You can listen in as we get to know each other and hear how we are all excited about the topic of 'conversation strategy'.

what would it look like to encourage conversations in a strategic way?

We will use that question as a foundation for this conversation. How very meta, I know.

We will host this with Butter and a Google Doc for taking notes.

Community Conversations: Conversation Strategy

​Community conversations are led by a very small group of people, but others are invited in to observe or contribute.

 and we will be hosting it on Twitter Spaces.

We will be exploring the idea of Community Design. What is it? How do we approach it? Where do we find sources of inspiration to design community?

Come listen in live or join in the conversation. It will be recorded and distributed afterwards.

Community Conversations: Community Design

Monthly sessions for the Rosieland Forum Collective where we gather once a month to explore how to build better forums.

For paid members, find us in the Forum Collective Slack channel too.

RSVP here to get the events in your calendar.

Rosieland Forum Collective

 are working on creating a Community Building Curriculum that will be open source.

Setting up this event is us working in public, sharing our progress and looking for support, insights and feedback from the community.

Sign up if you're interested in supporting or learning more about the idea. 

We'll send notes and recording afterwards too and also by then we should have other ways to keep tabs on our progress. 🌈

Co-creating a Community Curriculum

✨ The UX of Community is a series of three workshops led by Laure X Cast, ex-Head of Research at Marco Polo app.

🌈 25% discount codes available for Rosieland members

How can you create a great community experience? Use UX and Product approaches to make communities people love.

Take the whole series! You’ll learn best practices to develop:

 In this workshop, you’ll learn basic practices of UX research that will help you to create an amazing member experience. We’ll make a research plan and learn how to do UX interviews, as well as getting some ideas of other ways to learn what members care about.

: In this workshop, we’ll apply the ideas around the user journey map to your community, finding creative ways to make your community engaged, generative, and cohesive, leading to more members who invest and grow.

: In this workshop, we’ll do a deep dive into onboarding, which sets the stage for your community’s success. We’ll design an experience that is tailored to your group’s goals. This plan will ensure you can integrate new members, accelerate their growth, and build a lasting and resilient community.

 is a founder working on a platform to create more meaningful connection in communities. They’re also a 

 and designed for our real needs. Prior to becoming a founder, Laure was Head of Research at 

, previously worked on product and storytelling at 

a consultant who helps social-good product teams and leaders

 discover what their customers care about and implement people-focused strategies including community.