Sam Liebeskind
@samliebeskind
product partnerships at New_Public; previously community & growth @ Geneva
Sam Liebeskind
If you're interested in revitalizing a community, understand that it can't be done from the outside. America is almost 250 years old, and she has never seen a revitalization program that worked from the outside-in. If you want to revitalize a community, it cannot be done without getting your hands dirty. You’ve got to engage the affected... See more
Sam Pressler • Putting the "neighbor" back in the neighborhood
Groupvibe | Make Friends & Meet New People
groupvibe.com
How repackaging a print guide into a pop-up newsletter helped Midcoast Villager land new readers and subscribers - BlueLena
Mariangela Salmeronbluelena.io
But these activities are all separate from the feelings needed to fully and sustainably participate: the courage, optimism, trust, love, intimacy, curiosity. The resilience to push through the inevitable feelings of fear, overwhelm, frustration, and hurt. The stamina to go through cycles of all of these feelings and more, again and again, and... See more
Community is About What We Are Willing to Feel
from Group Hug by Elise Granata
1. Most founders are bad at growth, so if you're amazing at it, the advantage is significant.
Consider: Most startups die not because founders are bad or products suck, but because they couldn't figure out how to get anyone to try them.
Julian Shapirox.com
There are also the industrialized battalions running variously sophisticated ops to make the “public conversation” look like something it isn’t—to accelerate discord, to fake overwhelming support or opposition for an entity or idea, to make a group look stupid or dangerous-and-therefore-worthy-of-extermination, often by pretending to be a member... See more