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How to build a community on Slack

I’ve been using Slack for my past few communities. Yes, I know, even Stewart Butterfield said it wasn’t built for that, but many community folks use it and it’s best to go where your members are. A few folks have asked about my approach to building Slack communities, so I thought it would be helpful […]

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On building community

I was asked the other day about how you build a successful community. So I thought I’d share how I think about it, in broad strokes. To start with, a lot of my thinking was deeply inspired by the books Get Together by Bailey Richardson, Kai Elmer Sotto, and Kevin Huynh, The Business of Belonging […]