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6 Books for Community Builders

Introducing the Orbit Community Stars Accelerator

Curb Unproductive Meetings with Asynchronous Videos

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Starting Out

7 Lessons Learned Building a Multicultural Team

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

How Corey Haines built Swipe Files

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Tactics

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

Could your company Slack use a glow-up?

Curb Unproductive Meetings with Asynchronous Videos

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Strategy

Build spaced repetition into your community

Community is the new presales

Introducing Gravity - the Field Guide for Product Communities

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Tools

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

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

Listen in as we go under the hood of the Orbit Model

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Community Case Studies

How Corey Haines built Swipe Files

How CircleCI Developed and Implemented a new DevRel Strategy using Orbit

How Rasa Supercharged their Contributor Program using Orbit

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#CommunityLife

Creating a Community Portfolio

The good old days of online communities

Community Manager "Wannabe" Journey

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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.

A Community-First Approach to Driving Competitive Advantage

Community as a Practice: Trajectory and Trends

The Secret Sauce to Growing Open Source Community

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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.

What Will Events Look Like in 2021 and Beyond?

Driving Business Growth with Community

Orbit Integrations: Everything you need to know

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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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