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How to Build a Successful Champions Program: A Guide

A Simple Community Positioning Framework

Laying the Groundwork for Your First Developer Relations Hire

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Starting Out

7 Lessons Learned Building a Multicultural Team

A tactical guide to kickstarting your community

To build community, start with community discovery

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Tactics

6 Books for Community Builders

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

Using Twitter questions to build a parallel community

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Strategy

The Role of a Community Advocate

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

Classifying Communities with the 3Ps: Product, Practice, and Play

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Tools

Introducing the Orbit Model Airtable Template

Could your company Slack use a glow-up?

How Corey Haines built Swipe Files

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Community Case Studies

Could your company Slack use a glow-up?

Looking for the natural next steps: How Sarah Nöckel built Femstreet

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

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#CommunityLife

Leaning into vulnerability for community building

How growing up online preps you to be a community manager

Landing your Dream Community Job

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💫 The Observatory

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

Build, don’t borrow, your own community influencers

What's really stopping your community from acting?

The Community Discovery Framework

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⚛️ Nexus

Recordings from our virtual event.

Git it Right! Measuring What Matters in OSS Contribution

Creating Opportunities for Cooperative Work

Keynote: Product, Model, and Partners

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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.

Community Success Metrics

Driving Business Growth with Community

Community, Crypto, and Creators

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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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