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LBC #49 Community Benchmark Report, New Team Members, And a New Member-led Hub!

60+ job opportunities, 100+ events, new podcast episodes and resources.

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Francisco Opazo
July 31, 2023

Presented this week by Orbit

Hello, Friends and Community Leaders 😊

Let’s go straight to what matter to everyone: The excellent resources from this week.

What about the importance of doing great online community management? What can be considered ‘great’? from Disciple.

David S shared: How to Find your Community Wedge, read here.

Our Dear Paz Pisarski wrote: How can your community run without you? By the way, she is closing doors for her cohort #3. Learn more.

Richard M., helping consultants with their battles: How Can You Win Business Against Bigger, More Established, Competitors? Read here.

From Rosie S: Reframing what scaling community means, read here.

Our friends at Gainsight acquire Northpass. Learn why here.

We have launched a brand new hub to host and run our events. It looks fantastic, and Gradual powers it. Explore our events.

We are working on setting up a member-led blog and looking for community leaders who love writing to help us as contributors. If you can write an article per quarter for Led by Community, please reply to this email!

We also want to thank Imogen Wood, who is joining our team as Senior Events & Community Manager.

And Finally, a warm welcome to Akash Awagral as Community Director, Asia. More news for Asia soon. Stay tuned!

💌 With love Francisco, Nicola, Imogen and Dhanashree.

On Twitter this week…

📈 Strategy, Operations and Analytics

Community Benchmark Report ’23

No more second-guessing your community’s performance. Here’s an industry-grade benchmark report and suggestions based on 800+ communities across 6 key sectors.

www.threado.com/community-benchmark-report

  • From Disciple: The Power & Importance of Great Online Community Management. Read

  • From Common Room: Buyer intent: a guide to what you're missing. Read

  • Embracing Relevance Over Engagement. Read

  • Building a successful community strategy. Read

  • Leveraging Community to Drive Customer Success by Chris Detzel. Read

Use the code ledby10 to get 10% OFF from this certification

📨 Newsletters from Pros

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

  • David Spinks' Newsletter: How to Find your Community Wedge. Read

  • How can your community run without you? by Paz Pisarski. Read

  • The Battles of Stories: How You Can Win Business Against Bigger, More Established, Competitors by Richard Millington. Read

Are we missing a newsletter? Please reply and let us know!

🤯 More Resources for You

Reframing what scaling a community means

For my Rosieland efforts, I feel it is part of my duty to question the status quo. Just because something is accepted and done in a certain way, it doesn't mean it is right or can't be improved. Today I'm applying my scepticism to the idea of scaling community.

rosie.land/posts/reframing-what-scaling-a-community-means

And more worth reading below:

  • Creator to Community Builder: Welcome to Season 2! Read

  • The CMX Summit 2023: Shine - Get Ready to Meet the Third Phase of Speakers! Read

  • Hivebrite Announces Partnership With moka.care in Continuous Effort to Support Employees’ Mental Health. Read

  • From Clocktower Advisors: Dive Into DEI and Digital Friction. Read

  • Feature Request Software: Our Top 13 Picks for 2023. Read

  • From The Community Collective: How to Manage Burnout as a Community Builder. Read

📢 Announcements

Announcing Panoramica: the open source universal inbox powered by AI - Orbit

Today we’re releasing the beta version of Panoramica, a universal inbox for conversations across all your important channels. With the Panoramica beta, you can view conversations across channels like Discord, Twitter (X?), and Github, all in a single place, while using AI to better understand what people are talking about, who’s talking to whom, and more. Even better: it’s open source and ready to extend.

orbit.love/blog/announcing-panoramica-the-open-source-universal-inbox-powered-by-ai

🎙️ New Podcast Episodes

This week we have only two new podcast episodes available:

  • From Community Signal: Breaking: Online Community Consultant Discovers Brand New Concept (Again!) Listen.

  • 3 Evergreen Offer Traps to Avoid with Scott Paley By Shana Lynn. Listen.

  • Community Life #56 with Mirella Ang de Jonge. Listen.

  • The Chief Evangelist 015: Matt Green - Building Strong Connections and Productive Sales Communities With Empathy. Listen

  • Peers Over Beers: Community And Customer Success Driving Customer Engagement Through Collaboration. Listen

💼 The Job Board

We have 50+ jobs available within our Job Board, but we are featuring a few below:

💼 Director of Content & Community at Knotch. Apply.

💼 Beta Community Manager (Remote) at Hatch. Apply.

💼 Developer Relations, PHP Community at InMotion Hosting. Apply.

💼 Global Community Manager at Rapid. Apply.

💼 Community Lead at Tulip. Apply.

💼 Developer Relations Manager at Canonical.  Apply.

💼 Community and Change Manager at Atlassian. Apply.

💼 Community Evangelist at Mat3ra.com. Apply.

💼 Technical Program Manager at Global Information Services, Inc. Apply.

📅 The Events Calendar

🗓️ August 06th, Building and maintaining a positive community reputation. Save your spot.

🗓️ August 10th, LinkedIn Essentials for Community Builders: A Fireside Chat with JD Gershbein. Save your spot

🗓️ August 16th, Exploring the Thread of Connection in Community Across Social Media and Beyond. Save your spot

🗓️ August 29th, 5 Key Points for Effective Onboarding, A Dynamic session with Laura Zug. Save your spot

⚒️ Tools for Community Pros

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