Community Design
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Community Design
“As organizers, let it be friction-ful or not cute. Let it be functional and clear but maybe ugly. As participants, let us widen our zone of comfort with organizations or groups who have ancient facebook pages or websites where you aren’t sure where you even put your e-mail address. Maybe we trust them more because they’ve managed to keep going in
... See moreCheap and simple — a counterintuitive yet powerful community design principle
Fabian Pfortmüllermedium.com
The Business of Belonging: How to Make Community your Competitive Advantage
David Spinks • 15 highlights
amazon.com
Build for good actors, rather than hedge against the bad actors. I love Wikipedia’s Jimmy Wales‘ steak knives analogy. Imagine you’re designing a restaurant that serves steak. Subsequently, you’re going to be giving everyone steak knives. There’s always the possibility that people with knives will stab each other, but you won’t lock everyone in... See more
David • 99 Pieces of Unsolicited, (Possibly) Ungooglable Startup Advice
- It’s rare for a member to convert from a lower tier to a higher tier. In most cases, it’s not worth it to have a way for people to pay you $2, $10, $50, in hopes that they’ll upgrade. If they’re happy with the $2 they’ll stay there. If they’re unhappy, they’re more likely to churn than upgrade.
3 Types of Membership Models for Creators — The Business of Community
The Handbook of Handbooks for Decentralised Organising - HackMD
hackmd.io
Resource by Richard Bartlett
Ultimately, Agreements are a collective wish we make about how we might be in the same space together. That space could be a classroom, a sports team, a club, a conference, committees or boards, an organizing group. They reflect what we need to participate while feeling joyful, trusted, and brave.
But they also can be flimsy as hell.
But they also can be flimsy as hell.
Elise Granata • The Occasional Flimsiness of Group Agreements
Tara McMullin and
Focused on new structures of kinship and uniting people around shared values of empathy and care, community platforms are increasingly integrating wellbeing, sustainability and social justice into their core. 🧵
