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🗓️ Upcoming Events

Discussions, mixers, and workshops about all things community.

We'll be back in the new year

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🆕 Constellation Report

Charting the current state of community tools. Discover which tools are making community happen.

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In-Depth Resources

Thought-provoking articles and actionable advice from our team of community experts.

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The Community Discovery Framework

Let’s expand the community builder’s dictionary

The engagement traps of modern-day communities

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Starting Out

To build community, start with community discovery

Staying up, not starting up: How Matt Studdert built Frontend Mentor

A tactical guide to kickstarting your community

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Tactics

Giving is the 💜 of community building: here's how to use boundaries to do it well

Empathy at Scale

Magic on the outside: conversations that create community

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Strategy

The future of community

Gravity is the key to community growth

Use this segmentation grid to plan your community outreach

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Tools

The future of community is distributed

Migrating Our Community from Slack to Discord: Tips & Lessons Learned

Introducing the Orbit Model Airtable Template

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Community Case Studies

How Rasa Supercharged their Contributor Program using Orbit

Staying up, not starting up: How Matt Studdert built Frontend Mentor

How Agora uses Orbit to Manage, Measure, and Grow their Community

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#CommunityLife

The good old days of online communities

Leaning into vulnerability for community building

Creating a Community Portfolio

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💫 The Observatory

A weekly newsletter packed with tactics, trends, and observations from the world of community.

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💫 The Observatory

Tactics, trends, and observations from the world of community.

The Community Discovery Framework

Let’s expand the community builder’s dictionary

The engagement traps of modern-day communities

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💜 Developer Love

Conversations with those winning the hearts and minds of developers.

Standardizing Work with Sam Ramji of DataStax

Learning in Public with Shawn “Swyx” Wang

Community Transparency with Tracy Lee of This Dot Labs

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🏕️ Community Camp

Recordings from our virtual event.

Managing Communities at Scale

Community, Crypto, and Creators

Driving Business Growth with Community

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🛠️ Tools Index

Tools categorized and ranked by usage by community builders.

💪🏽 Community Built

Real stories from those crafting communities from scratch.

How Corey Haines built Swipe Files

How Matt Studdert built Frontend Mentor

How Sarah Nöckel built Femstreet

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🌳 Communitree

9-min chats about timely community topics.

How can the indie community be sustainable

The #Ship30for30 Community + Building Habits

What community folks can learn from academia

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Learn How to Build Communities

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In-Depth Resources

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