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💫 The Observatory

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

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

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The Guide for Driving Business Value with Community

From Sales Funnel to Community Building

Introducing Gravity - the Field Guide for Product Communities

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Starting Out

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

To build community, start with community discovery

7 Lessons Learned Building a Multicultural Team

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Tactics

Community events can be distributed too

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

Our guide to using DEV for DEVeloper relations

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Strategy

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

From Sales Funnel to Community Building

The Role of a Community Advocate

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Tools

How to get a Slack notification when someone stars your GitHub repository

Slack vs Discord vs Discourse: The best tool for your community

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

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Community Case Studies

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

How Apollo Uses Orbit Across Four Functions to Build Community and Connection

It was never just a Slack: How Charlie Ward built Weekend Club

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#CommunityLife

Creating a Community Portfolio

How growing up online preps you to be a community manager

The early days of community

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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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💜 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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