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💫 The Observatory

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

In-Depth Resources

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

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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

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

How Corey Haines built Swipe Files

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Tactics

Could your company Slack use a glow-up?

What a Michelin star chef taught me about community building

6 Books for Community Builders

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Strategy

Why Writing Down Community Rules is Important

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

Unlock Resources by Understanding the 3 Leadership Mindsets

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Tools

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

Using Orbit for: Events

The future of community is distributed

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Community Case Studies

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

How Rasa Supercharged their Contributor Program using Orbit

How Corey Haines built Swipe Files

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#CommunityLife

The early days of community

Creating a Community Portfolio

The good old days of online communities

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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.

Keynote: Product, Model, and Partners

Data-Led Community Programs and Strategy

Creating Opportunities for Cooperative Work

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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.

Driving Business Growth with Community

Managing Communities at Scale

What Will Events Look Like in 2021 and Beyond?

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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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