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Francisco Opazo
June 10, 2025

Hello! Fellow Community Builders,

The Community Week Podcast is live! We just shipped this week's 10 episodes, featuring top community professionals who will also be speaking at London Community Week! Kateryna Bova is the host, and you can see all episodes on YouTube here.

Local Chapters are booming and popping everywhere! Check our events calendar to find dates for Barcelona, Lisbon, New York and Toronto!

Keep scrolling for the latest updates, engaging content, and exciting announcements! Explore the newest trends and check out over 90+ job opportunities that might be your next big step. 🚀🌟

Your Friends Francisco, Akash, Heather, Paola, Ismot & The Led by Community Team of Volunteers

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📈 Strategy, Operations and Analytics

The Rise of Community Marketing

There is a shift to community marketing due to the declining effectiveness of traditional marketing efforts and changing audience behaviour.

www.feverbee.com/communitymarketing

  • From HigherLogic: What Makes Online Communities Successful? 15 Community Examples. Read

  • From Talkbase: The Human Side of Community ROI: Stories That Numbers Can’t Measure. Read

  • From Discourse: How Celigo doubled their community engagement after migrating to Discourse. Read

  • From Bettermode: Engaging the Few to Influence Many: Niche Community Strategies for Brands. Read

  • From Circle: 7 community guideline examples for building a respectful online space. Read

  • From Advocu: Talkbase Alternative: Why Advocu Is the Best Community Platform to Power Meaningful Engagement. Read

  • From Mighty Network: AI For Community Management (+ 10 Prompts You Must Try!) Read

  • From Bevy: From Engagement to Revenue: Measuring the Business Impact of Community. Read

📨 Newsletters from Pros

We love to feature Community Professionals sharing their wisdom with the community, this week we have a few:

  • The freemium trap that's burning out community builders (and how to avoid it) by Laura Zug. Read

  • Community Codebreakers: Brian Klein of Coda on Why Community Is a Force Multiplier by Joshua Zerkel. Read

  • Creativity Loom: A Framework for Weaving Purpose and Self-Expression by Laís de Oliveira. Read

  • Be a Great Coachee: 10 Tips to Get the Most from Coaching by Paz Pisarski. Read

  • How I Built a Community Resource Library by Martha Essien. Read

  • From pitching a role to going full time by Max Pete. Read

  • Why Intentionality Wins: Lessons on Slowing Down From Renew VC’s Kt McBratney by Pete Heslop. Read

Are we missing a newsletter? Let us know!

Francisco OpazoBuilding Community one day at a time.
Community WeekCommunity Week is the new home for evolving community leaders.

🤯 More Resources for You

Meet the Community Builders - Andy Piper - Head of Communications - Mastodon — Michelle Goodall

Andy Piper is Head of Communications at Mastodon. He shares his insights about community strategy, building community and explains how Mastodon can be a successful element of a community ecosystem strategy.

www.michellegoodall.co.uk/insights/meet-the-community-builders-mastodon-andy-piper-interview

And more worth reading below:

  • From Community Roundtable: Eight Ways to Improve Your Online Community Programs. Read

  • From CMX: Meet our 2025 Finalists - CMX Community Industry Awards. Read

  • From Clocktower Advisors: Innovation Impact: How Rachel Petzold Uses Storytelling to Supercharge Product Success. Read

  • From CMGR LIVE: Why Building a Community Takes Grit: How Your Hustle Sets the Stage for Success. Read

  • From Steadfast Collective: What Restaurants Taught Me About Building Communities. Read

  • From Australian Community Managers: Community governance that works: lessons across the decades. Read

  • From STATESHIFT: Developer-Led Growth vs. Community-Led Growth: Which Model Works Best. Read

  • From Practical: What does retention in an online community mean and how can a community manager measure it? Read

🎙️ New Podcast Episodes

This week, we have a few new podcast episodes available:

  • From CHAOSS Podcast: 20m in CHAOSS Africa with Busayo Ojo and Yigakpoa Ikpae. Listen.

  • From Community Life Podcast: How to Know You’ve Really Clicked with Someone | HoB with Brian Gallagher. Listen.

  • From Community ROI Podcast: How to Turn Community Conversations Into SQLs and Sales | Community ROI with Jeanine Suah. Listen

  • From Digital Community Leaders Podcast: From Airbnb to Stripe: How Ashley Williams Builds Communities People Love. Listen

  • From Money Guiders Community Hub: Community Network Managers Recruitment. Listen

  • From Contacts to Connections: Crafting Community for Your Conference with Katie Brinkley. Listen

  • From Community Pulse Podcast: Vibing on Vibe Coding. Listen

💼 The Job Board

We have 130+ jobs available in our Job Board, but we are featuring a few below:

US & Remote

💼  AI Developer Advocate at Eventual. Apply

💼 Community Coordinator at Voodoo. Apply

💼 Community Lead at XYZ Venture Capital. Apply

💼 Community Operations Lead at FirstMark. Apply

💼 Social Media & Community Manager (Generative AI) at Leonardo.Ai. Apply

💼 Senior Community Manager at Crispin. Apply

💼 Social Community Manager at Cantina Labs. Apply

💼 Community Engagement Manager at UMass Boston. Apply

💼 Community Manager at Mercury. Apply

💼 Associate Global Community Manager at Electronic Arts. Apply

💼 Community Association Manager at Mercor. Apply

💼 Developer Advocate at Cisco. Apply

💼 Head of Social, Community & Creator at Warner Bros. Discovery. Apply

💼 Director of Community at Scopely. Apply

💼 Manager, Community Programs and Development at Adweek. Apply

💼 Senior Community Manager, North America, AWS Developer Experience at Amazon Web Services. Apply

💼 DevRel & Community Manager at Pathway. Apply

💼 Manager Community Engagement and Outreach at Museum of Science. Apply

Jobs in Canada & Remote

💼 Advisor, Community relations at Alto. Apply

Europe & UK & Remote

💼 Community Executive at Sainsbury. Apply

💼 Community & Content Lead at Solo60. Apply

💼 Creator & Community Lead at Attio. Apply

💼 Community Engagement Manager, France & BeNeLux at Airbnb. Apply

💼 Community Manager at Greenpark. Apply

💼 Community Manager at Ogilvy. Apply 

💼 Developer Experience Engineer at Bunny.net. Apply

💼 Senior Community Engagement Manager, Community Leaders at Standing on Giants. Apply

💼 Community Manager at Nothing. Apply

Australia & Asia & Remote

💼 Senior Community Manager at Series Entertainment. Apply

💼 LATAM Developer Advocate, AWS Developer Experience at Amazon Web Services. Apply

💼 Community Impact Manager at Portland Thorns FC. Apply

💼 Community Manager at Flipster. Apply

Other locations

💼 Developer Community Manager at Apify. Apply

💼 Developer Relations Advocate at Nebius AI. Apply

📅 The Global Events Calendar

🗓️ June 05th, Reddit Community Masterclass. Save your spot

🗓️ June 11th, Community Builders Meetup: Barcelona Chapter Kickoff. Save your spot

🗓️ June 16th, Community Leaders Connect: The Launch of Led by Community Lisbon. Save your spot

🗓️ June 18th, Break & Build: A Heuristic Problem Reframing Workshop. Save your spot

🗓️ June 19th, Beyond Marketing: How to Position Community as a Business Driver with Avital Knoller. Save your spot

🗓️ June 24th, Community Reimagined: Unlocking ROI Through Connection and Learning. Save your spot

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