[LBC #161] London Countdown, Upcoming Events & New Roles

Join us as we count down to London Community Week, explore community monetisation and real-world AI workflows, and discover new resources and opportunities.

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Francisco Opazo
June 24, 2026

Hi friends!

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

🇬🇧 London Community Week is just 13 days away! Join community builders from around the world for three days of learning, connection, and collaboration. Grab your pass!

✨ Community Creators is happening today. Join us for a conversation on sustainable ways to monetise community work without charging members. Save your spot.

🤖 AI Sharing Notes is tomorrow. Bring your best AI workflows, tools, and experiments, and learn what other community builders are testing. Register here.

🛠️ Running a community shouldn't mean managing a dozen tools. Explore how HubPlus brings events, memberships, and community operations together in one place.

📝 We've published new articles exploring association membership retention and how customer marketing can help turn community into a growth engine. Start reading.

📈 This week's resources explore AI, customer marketing, community strategy, and growth, with insights from Rosie Sherry, Michelle Goodall, Tiffany Oda, and more.

💼 New opportunities are live on the Job Board. Whether you're hiring, exploring your next role, or simply keeping an eye on the market, have a look.

There's plenty more to explore below.

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

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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

Led by Community - The Hub for Community Leaders

Led by Community is the hub for community leaders — connect with peers, find events, jobs, playbooks and resources to grow stronger communities.

Led by Community • Led by Community

  • Meet the Community Builders - Lea Turner - The HoLT by Michelle Goodall. Read

  • 6 Community Hot Takes! Community Council (Part 2) by Tiffany Oda. Read

  • From Community Consultants Collective: Practical AI Use Cases for Community Managers. Read

  • Scaled Customer Success Newsletter by Evan Hamilton. Read

📨 Newsletters from Pros

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

  • We've been measuring online success all wrong, by Max Pete. Read

  • What You Promised Without Knowing It by Jillian Bejtlich. Read

  • If there is transformation, there is community. And a story. The outcome is growth. · Day 1/28 · The Community as Becoming Series by Laís de Oliveira. Read

Are we missing a newsletter? Let us know!

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🤯 More Resources for You

How to Build a Gaming Community on Discord?

There are plenty of articles out there about how to set up servers (like this one), so we’ll skip straight to the main point — community building. Gaming Community 101 First, let’s define what a community actually is. An online community is a group of people connected by a shared goal, interest, or purpose, and communicating with each other. You can find long lists of online community types. At the same time, in my view, all communities can be divided into groups based on why people join th...

Practical Community Management

And more worth reading below:

  • SoundCloud Selects RepostExchange as its First Community Promotion Partner by Rod Yates. Read

  • The One Skill You Need to Master to Get Hired as a Community Manager by Nikita Heyland. Read

  • From Rosieland: Yes, I change my mind, regularly. Read

🎙️ New Podcast Episodes

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

  • From Brianna Leever Podcast: 27. How Do I Know If a Community Is Right for My Business? (After Building 79 Online Communities). Listen

  • From Clocktower Advisors: Orgo: Privacy + Simplicity | Community Platform Demo Series. Listen

  • You Need To Master This To Get Hired As A Community Manager by Nikita Heyland. Listen

  • From Joeri Billast: A Police Raid Started His Event Career – with Pierre Lindh. 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 first 90 days decide year 3: a community-first onboarding blueprint for associations. Read

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

  • Why your association needs fewer members, not more. Read

  • Why association members renew when they feel like insiders, not customers. Read

Become a Member of Led by Community

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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

💼 Assistant Manager - Community-Based Research & Engagement — DIVERSEcity Community Resources Society Apply here

💼 Community Engagement and Encampment Response (CEER) Team Worker — CEDAR Outreach Society of BC Apply here

💼 Community Engagement Librarian - Youth — Prince George Public Library Apply here

💼 Forte Series Creator Community Lead — Forte Series Apply here

💼 Manager of Legal Operations — Wealthsimple Apply here

💼 Director of Evidence Reviews and Data Synthesis - Canada or UK-based — STRATENYM Apply here

💼 Digital Community Lead Creators — Forte Series Apply here

💼 Community Engagement Specialist at headspace — Marathon Health Australia Apply here

💼 Director of Outreach (Washington, DC) — PragerU Apply here

💼 Content Creator & Community Manager Role — Haven Greens Apply here

💼 Senior Manager/Director Compensation — Mackenzie Financial Corporation Apply here

💼 Community Ambassador & Referral Partner — Kindly Direct Care Apply here

💼 Part-Time Community Moderator – Live Chat Support & Spam Content Removal Specialist (Remote Position in the United States) — careersprint (Remote) Apply here

Europe & UK & Remote

💼 German or French Speaking Institutional Client Service Relationship Manager — Fisher Investments Apply here

💼 Sr Manager, Transformation — McDonald's Apply here

💼 Community Stakeholder Lead — Bechtel Apply here

💼 Staff Customer Success Manager (P4) - United Kingdom — Kong Apply here

💼 Regional Membership Manager – Midlands & East of England (Cambridgeshire, Northamptonshire, Bed[...] — Make UK Apply here

💼 Membership Manager — Music Publishers Association (UK) Apply here

Remote & Others

💼 Developer Advocate, Community Engagement — Twilio Apply here

💼 Leeds-Based South Asian Community Engagement Specialist — British Youth Music Theatre Apply here

💼 Community Engagement Volunteer — MySight York Apply here

💼 Model Validation Analyst — United Community (Remote) Apply here

💼 Senior Event Manager - Events Agency — Blank Space Recruitment Apply here

💼 Media Search Analyst — TELUS Digital AI Data Solutions Apply here

💼 Community Game Content Creator — England Rugby Apply here

💼 Community Content Partner— Digital Dasher Media Apply here

💼 Social Value & Community Engagement Specialist — Fawkes and Reece Apply here

💼 Experienced Remote Chat Moderator — careersprint (Remote) Apply here

📅 The Global Events Calendar

🗓️ 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

🗓️ Oct 13th, Remote Work Needs Community. Save your spot

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