[LBC #159] Upcoming Events, New Resources & Fresh Roles

Get ready for London Community Week, explore AI Sharing Notes, connect with community builders in Barcelona, and discover fresh articles and opportunities.

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Francisco Opazo
June 10, 2026

Hi friends!

Here's your weekly roundup of events, ideas, resources, and opportunities:

🇬🇧 London Community Week is almost here. Join Rosie Sherry's AI-first community workshop and our Lovable AI Hackathon. Secure your spot today.

🇪🇸 We're gathering community builders in Barcelona tomorrow for a day of coworking, conversations, and connection. Come along.

🤖 Curious how others are putting AI to work? Join AI Sharing Notes, our weekly session for sharing real-world workflows, experiments, and insights.

🎤 Jon Wishart from Gainsight joins our next Talks & Pros session to explore how community can help scale customer success. Register now.

🎙️ Speaker applications are open for upcoming Led by Community events. We'd love to hear your ideas. Apply here.

📝 This week's featured article from Hal Bleiweiss explores why community has become a strategic growth engine for modern organizations. Read it here.

📚 New resources cover community strategy, AI, analytics, engagement, and events from Circle, Bevy, Rosieland, Buffer, and more.

💌 We're also highlighting newsletters from Gareth Wilson & Starian Porchia, Jillian Bejtlich, and Martha Essien.

💼 New opportunities have landed on the Job Board. Whether you're hiring or exploring your next move, have a look.

Keep scrolling for more stories, resources, and opportunities.

With love,
Francisco, Paôla & the Led by Community Team of Volunteers

Calling for Speakers – Community Builders & Leaders

Are you building or growing a community? Share your story, case study, or lessons learned with fellow community builders through one of our upcoming events. We'd love to hear practical insights, experiments, and real-world experiences from people in the field.

Click here to apply.

📈 Strategy, Operations and Analytics

7 Hivebrite Alternatives for More Engaged Members (2026) | Circle Blog

Hivebrite manages your member directory. These 7 alternatives are built to keep members coming back — with engagement tools, transparent pricing, and less enterprise overhead.

Circle

  • From Buffer: 9 Tools for Social Media Automation (+ Automation Pro Tips). Read

  • From Discourse: Discourse Will Never Block You From the Web. Read

  • From Bevy: Measuring the Business Impact of Community Events: A Framework for 2026. Read

  • From Rosieland: Maybe AI in community could help us be more human. Read

📨 Newsletters from Pros

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

  • Dark Efficacy by Gareth Wilson and Starian Porchia. Read

  • The Worst Review in the Room by Jillian Bejtlich. Read

  • What to do after your program ends by Martha Essien. 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

How successful communities are built: Key takeaways from Interviews

For over a year, we’ve been collecting benchmarks for the community management industry to support our research and build our recommendation system. Our dataset includes several hundred communities of different sizes. While selecting communities for benchmarking, we noticed that about half of them never grew beyond 50 active users per month. And that’s only among those that haven’t shut down. It looked so unusual that I decided to reach out to people who managed to grow their community successf...

Practical Community Management

And more worth reading below:

  • Connection, Ownership & the Future of Community Building with Will Allen. Read

  • How to Handle the Social & Community Job Trap by Nikita Heyland. Read

🎙️ New Podcast Episodes

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

  • From Clocktower Advisors Podcast: Tightknit: Community In Slack | Community Platform Demo Series. Listen

  • From Higher Logic Podcast: Navigating Change Management in AI Transformation with Ashleigh Brookshaw. Listen

  • From Community ROI Podcast: Podcast As A Community Operating System | Community ROI with David Nebinski. Listen

  • From Community Pulse Podcast: Playing DevRel's Advocate. Listen

🤝 Associations and Membership

The community manager as culture keeper inside membership organisations

Inside a membership organisation, the community manager is not the events person, not the email person, not the moderator. They are the culture keeper.

Led by Community • Led by Community

  • The community health audit: a quarterly review template for associations. Read

  • Qualitative signals: reading your association's community without a dashboard. Read

  • Niche over scale: how specialist associations beat generalist ones on community. Read

  • Saying no inside a membership org: moderation, conflict, and the cost of "everyone welcome". Read

Become a Member of Led by Community

Did you know we have private conversations happening every single day? Behind the scenes, 400+ community builders are sharing experiments, lessons, wins, and challenges in real time. If you’re building community (or want to), this is where you belong.

Community Tools Available for You

Create Your Professional Portfolio

Showcase your expertise, services, and case studies in a beautiful, shareable portfolio built specifically for community professionals. Highlight your positioning, skills, tools, and real-world work — all in one place.

Showcase Your Community

Create a beautiful profile in our curated directory to attract the right members and grow your visibility. Share your story, publish events and articles, collect reviews, and showcase what makes your community unique.

💼 The Job Board

We have 120+ jobs available in our Job Board, but we are featuring a few below:

US & Remote

💼 Head of Community & Creator Programs — Undisclosed Apply here

💼 Developer Relations Engineer – Edge to Cloud Platforms — ARM Apply here

💼 Community Engagement Lead — peregrinetechnologies Apply here

💼 Brand and Community Lead — Rewind Apply here

💼 Community Navigator — Keewatinohk Inniniw Minoayawin Inc. (KIM Inc.) Apply here

💼 Education & Engagement Coordinator, Group Retirement — Canada Life Apply here

💼 Community Engagement Advisor – Talent Pool — Metrolinx Apply here

💼 Director, Learning and Community Engagement — National Gallery of Canada Apply here

💼 Community Engagement Cordinator — Qualicare, Scarborough Apply here

💼 Community Operations Officer - SV — Squamish Nation Apply here

💼 Seasonal Community Engagement Specialist, Inyo, Mono, Alpine Counties — Zócalo Health Apply here

💼 Community Engagement Ambassador (Security/Hospitality)- $20.00 — StreetPlus Apply here

💼 School & Community Engagement Coordinator — Summer Search Apply here

💼 Community Engagement and Resource Management Assistant — River Network Apply here

💼 Church Administrator and Facilities Coordinator — Healdsburg Community Church Apply here

💼 Manager of Community Engagement & Development — Monadnock Family Services Apply here

💼 Operational Excellence Senior Associate — PwC Canada Apply here

💼 Community Engagement Lead at Fuerte Metals — Whitehorsechamber Apply here

💼 Community Lead — Village Media Apply here

💼 Community Engagement & Content Specialist — Haven Greens Apply here

💼 Community-Focused Content Creator — Autismservices Apply here

💼 Community and Content Moderator — VXI Apply here

💼 Remote Discord Community Lead: Engagement & Moderation — Activate Talent Apply here

💼 Supervisor – Department Manager – North — Canadian Tire Apply here

Europe & UK & Remote

💼 Community Executive - Disney UK (Out of Hours) (FTC) — Jungle Creations Ltd Apply here

💼 Director, Talent and Community — Mobvista Apply here

💼 Community Development Officer — Abri Group Apply here

💼 Social Media & Community Specialist - UK — BJAK Apply here

💼 Content Creator for Community — HostHelp Apply here

💼 Community Fundraising Mnaager — HFT Apply here

💼 Director, Customer References — AVEVA Apply here

💼 Community Arts Operations Manager (4 day Week) — 17918 Apply here

Remote & Others

💼 Developer Relations AI (Worldwide) — Tether Operations Limited Apply here

💼 Community and Creative Trustee — Teaching Vacancies Apply here

💼 Head of Community Services — Baird And Co Recruitment Ltd Apply here

💼 Game Community Manager Engagement & Moderation — NetEase Games Apply here

💼 Community Engagement & Investment Manager — Rochdale Boroughwide Housing Apply here

💼 Strategic DevRel Lead ISV Ecosystems — NVIDIA Apply here

💼 Community Technician — PRS Apply here

💼 Chief Operating Officer (Volunteer) — Solution Community (Remote) Apply here

💼 Community & Content Manager (12-month FTC) — DELLI (Remote) Apply here

💼 Customer Growth Executive – Existing Accounts — Focus Group Apply here

💼 Social Media Community Manager 20 — TruePoint Communications Apply here

💼 Online Community Manager 44 — HeyGen Apply here

📅 The Global Events Calendar

🗓️ Jun 11th, Community Builders Coworking Day: Barcelona Chapter/ Summer Edition. Save your spot

🗓️ Jun 18th, Scaling Digital Customer Success with Community as the Delivery Layer. Save your spot

🗓️ Jun 24th, Monetise the Movement: Lessons from 3 Years of Making an (Indirect) Income from a Nonprofit Community. Save your spot

🗓️ Jul 07th, London Community Week 2026 (July 7th - 9th, 2026). Save your spot

🗓️ Aug 05th, Your Community IRL: How to Host a Conference for Your Community. Save your spot

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