[LBC #167] Loop Agenda, Community Compass & New Tools

Join upcoming community events, explore the new Marketplace, find mentoring opportunities, and discover fresh resources and roles.

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Francisco Opazo
August 12, 2026

Hi friends!

Here are a few things worth putting on your radar this week:

🎨 Design better events with community in mind. Join us in London on August 20 for a practical workshop on creating experiences people help shape. Reserve your place.

🎉 Loop’s agenda is live! Discover the speakers and sessions bringing community voices together from around the world on August 25. Save your spot.

🎤 Jillian Bejtlich explores the “half-life” model for understanding community engagement at our next Talks & Pros session on August 26. Register now.

💻 Spend a day coworking with fellow community builders. Join us in London on August 27 for focused work, real conversation, and shared momentum. RSVP here.

🤖 AI Sharing Notes is going biweekly. We’re giving everyone more time to experiment, test ideas, and share their learnings with the group. Save your spot for the next session.

🆕 Meet the Community Marketplace. Discover our new collection of plugins and tools for community builders, starting with Discourse. Explore the Marketplace.

🧭 If you’re ready to support another community professional, mentor applications for our Community Compass programme are open until this Friday, August 14. Apply now.

📚 This week’s resources feature fresh insights from Brianna Leever, Carrie Melissa Jones, Gareth Wilson & Jon Levesque, Bill Johnston, and more.

💼 Looking for your next community role? Explore the latest opportunities in our Job Board and opt in to the new Jobs Edition for weekly opportunities in your inbox.

Take a look, save your spots, and find something that sparks your curiosity this week.

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

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📈 Strategy, Operations and Analytics

How to Design for Community Engagement (Stop Asking the Wrong Question)

Posting into the void? The problem isn't your content — it's your design. Bri Leever's Community Engagement Recipe shows you exactly what to fix and how.

Ember • Brianna Leever

  • Digital Care Work at the End of the World: A Reflection from All Things in Moderation by Carrie Melissa Jones. Read

  • From Rosieland: 5 more community business case studies. Read

  • What Keeps a Community Running Beyond Engagement by CMX. Read

🧑‍🎨 Community Creators

The Sustainable Community Content Cadence

Stop the content treadmill. A sustainable community content cadence focuses on rhythm and quality over volume, preventing burnout and delivering real value. Learn the 'Anchor and Echo' model to reclaim your time.

Led by Community • Led by Community

  • A Community Onboarding Plan to Stop Early Churn. Read

  • How to Price Your First Paid Community. Read

  • Productise Your Expertise: A Value Ladder for Creators. Read

🎯 Customer Marketing

How to Increase Customer Community Participation

Your customer community isn't a stadium of silent fans. Learn why lurking is normal, and discover four practical tactics to lower the fear of the first post, celebrate new contributors, and turn passive observers into active participants.

Led by Community • Led by Community

  • Customer Marketing's Role in a Merger or Acquisition. Read

  • How to Build Your B2B Customer Marketing Tech Stack. Read

  • Customer Journey Mapping for Community Engagement. Read

🤝 Associations and Memberships

The Association AI Playbook: More Human, Not Less

Stop thinking about AI as a replacement for your community team. This playbook shows how to use automation to multiply your capacity, handle low-value tasks, and free your people to do what they do best: build human connection.

Led by Community • Led by Community

  • A Cohesive Association Communication Strategy. Read

  • Detoxing from Dashboards: Moving Your Board to Better Metrics. Read

  • The Un-Corporate Email: Rewriting Association Comms. Read

💻 From Community Platforms

  • Discourse Discover: Building in the Physical World by Discourse. Read

  • Why Slack Communities Become Harder to Run as They Grow by HubPlus. Read

  • 6 community-led advocacy tactics that turn members into advocates by Circle. Read

📨 Newsletters from Pros

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

  • Engagement Was Always a Proxy by Gareth Wilson and Jon Levesque. Read

  • The 60/40 Rule by Jillian Bejtlich. Read

  • Looking Back on the Social Business Era by Bill Johnston. Read

  • Announcing New Loop Speakers: Head of Community @ Lovable x Beehiiv x Slack by Paz Pisarski. Read

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🎙️ New Podcast Episodes

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

  • From Community ROI Podcast: What You Can Learn From Over 300 Community Professionals | Community ROI with Cat Nilsson. Listen

  • From Higher Logic Podcast: Grow Membership by Becoming More Discoverable with Olena Lima. Listen

  • From This Week in Community (TWiC) Podcast: Vibe-code, community platform, whatever: it's about data. Listen

🤯 More Resources for You

And more worth reading below:

What Is DevRel For Series A Companies

What is DevRel for Series A? Learn what a Series A DevRel team should look like: team size, first hire, metrics, and patterns to avoid.

Stateshift Blog

  • From The Community Collective: The CC Coffee with Catalina Gonzalez. Read

  • From Buffer: I Built a Workflow That Reads My Community's Slack and Writes a Week of Posts in My Voice. Read

  • Why You Aren't Getting Hired as a Community Manager by Nikita Heyland. Read

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Community Tools Available for You

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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.

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💼 The Job Board

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

US & Canada & Remote

💼 Community Relations Director — Maple Leaf Dentistry Apply here

💼 Manager of Community Outreach and Engagement — Jewish Toronto Apply here

💼 Community Engagement Representative — Girl Guides of Canada Apply here

💼 Community Safety Manager — Huron University Apply here

💼 Community Lead - Liberty Station — JETSET Pilates Apply here

💼 Community Manager for Multiplayer Games — Sony Interactive Entertainment Apply here

💼 Manager, Campaigns & Individual Giving — The Corp.of Massey Hall & Roy Thomson Hall Apply here

💼 Live-Stream Social Media Community Moderator — Social Factor Apply here

💼 Insomniac - Paid Fall Community Engagement Intern — Insomniac Holdings, LLC Apply here

💼 Senior Manager, GaaS Community — SEGA Apply here

💼 Community Manager — Bolt (Remote) Apply here

💼 Head Coach & Community Manager - S. Louis Park, MN — Solidcore Apply here

💼 Community Manager for Developers — 1Password Apply here

💼 Corporate Programs Analyst - Temporary — Air Canada Apply here

💼 Remote Community Insights Analyst (Canada) — Standing on Giants Apply here

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

💼 Community Engagement Lead in Media & Entertainment — Autodesk, Inc. Apply here

💼 Customer Marketing Manager — Mimecast (Remote) Apply here

💼 Senior Community Manager — Founders Pledge  Apply here

💼 Creator Community & Scaled Programs Manager — Suno Apply here

💼 Community Engagement Life Skills — Community Integrtn Serv Apply here

💼 Lead Creator Community University — Upperclass Apply here

💼 Partner Community & Engagement Lead — Relativity Apply here

💼 Social Media Community Manager — TruePoint Communications (Remote) Apply here

💼 Community Manager II - Overlook at Thornton — Maiker Housing Partners Apply here

💼 Commissary Manager — Safe Meat Inc. Apply here

💼 Community Engagement Officer at Oxford Archaeology — Oxford Archaeology Apply here

💼 Authentic Community Growth Lead (Reddit, TikTok, YouTube) — Jerry Apply here

💼 Remote Partner, Community Initiatives (Remote) — World Education Services Apply here

Europe & UK & Remote

💼 EMEA Group Lead, Social Content — Adobe Apply here

💼 London Community Moderator — Newsroom Reader Conversations — New York Times Apply here

💼 Presales Consultant — Kainos Apply here

💼 Associate, Customer Success Advocacy — Ciena UK Apply here

💼 Head of Travel Advisory and Community, UK — Navan Apply here

💼 Developer Advocate (Remote) — Cross Border Talents Apply here

Remote & Others

💼 Community Services Volunteer — Valued Connections Healthcare (Remote) Apply here

💼 Community Engagement Worker — WEBRECRUIT Apply here

💼 Community Engagement & Development Lead – North East — NECA Apply here

💼 Broadband Field Advisor: Community Engagement — Cornwall-Staff-Agency-Ltd Apply here

💼 Member \u0026 Community Engagement Committee — Heart of England Cooperative Society Apply here

💼 West Highlands Community Liaison & Outreach — CIH International Housing Group Apply here

💼 Social Growth & Community Lead — Recess (Remote) Apply here

💼 Community Manager — Regus Apply here

💼 Graduate Community Engagement Officer — Reeson Education Apply here

💼 Community Engagement Lead - Social Value & Local Impact — Griffiths Ltd. Apply here

💼 Community Engagement & Social Programs Specialist — Adisco Community Services Ltd Apply here

💼 Community Engagement Officer; GR — Griffiths Ltd. Apply here

💼 Strategic Licensing & Community Safety Lead — Essex County Council Apply here

📅 The Global Events Calendar

🗓️ Aug 13th, AI Sharing Notes: What We're Testing & Learning. Save your spot

🗓️ Aug 20th, From Audience to Community: Designing Events People Help Shape. Save your spot

🗓️ Aug 25th, Loop: The Global Community Summit. Save your spot

🗓️ Aug 26th, The Half-Life Problem: Your Members Are Decaying on Schedule. Save your spot

🗓️ Aug 27th, Community Builders Coworking Day in London. Save your spot

🗓️ Oct 08th, Top 5 Mistakes You're Making in Your Ambassador Programme. Save your spot

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

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