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

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Unlock Resources by Understanding the 3 Leadership Mindsets

Why Writing Down Community Rules is Important

A Practical Guide to Building a Community from Scratch

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Starting Out

7 Lessons Learned Building a Multicultural Team

The Community Discovery Framework

How Corey Haines built Swipe Files

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Tactics

When and How to Offer 1:1 Onboarding to Developers

Could your company Slack use a glow-up?

A Practical Guide to Building a Community from Scratch

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Strategy

What’s Your Community’s NRG?

The community craze is a symptom of what the world is going through right now

Who should own community?

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Tools

How we use Orbit to build Orbit

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

Add Automation to Your Swag Process with Orbit

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Community Case Studies

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

How CircleCI Developed and Implemented a new DevRel Strategy using Orbit

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

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#CommunityLife

The good old days of online communities

The early days of community

How growing up online preps you to be a community manager

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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.

Creating Opportunities for Cooperative Work

Community as a Practice: Trajectory and Trends

The Power of Asking a Great Question

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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

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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