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💫 The Observatory

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

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Tracking In-Person Event Attendance

The Guide for Driving Business Value with Community

From Sales Funnel to Community Building

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Starting Out

To build community, start with community discovery

Community Management for Business

The Community Discovery Framework

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Tactics

When and How to Offer 1:1 Onboarding to Developers

What a Michelin star chef taught me about community building

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

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Strategy

The engagement traps of modern-day communities

Community is the new presales

Build spaced repetition into your community

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Tools

How Corey Haines built Swipe Files

The Big Community Tools Survey 2021

Introducing the Orbit Model Airtable Template

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Community Case Studies

How Terrain uses Orbit to Grow a Community of Entrepreneurs

How Bramble builds intimate virtual experiences with Orbit

How CircleCI Developed and Implemented a new DevRel Strategy using Orbit

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#CommunityLife

Creating a Community Portfolio

The good old days of online communities

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.

Building a Beta Group or Champions Program in Orbit

Data-Led Community Programs and Strategy

Lessons Learned from Growing On Deck Internationally

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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

Orbit Integrations: Everything you need to know

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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