Piotr Gaczcowski | How to curate your community resources with a digital garden
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Piotr Gaczcowski | How to curate your community resources with a digital garden
What do you do about all that chat threads and meaningful conversations in your community? Republish them as a newsletter? Pin threads? Ignore? Just enjoy?
Remember the episode with Zan where we discussed a forum vs chat solution for a professional community and then decided that both are needed and both have trade-offs?
Chat solutions such as Discord are harder to follow and are not searchable by Google. All the valuable content that the community creates stays inside and is hard to get discovered by people on the internet or by folks who don’t follow your community daily.
In this episode, we’re focusing on a possible solution that is called a digital community garden:
A kind of a community Wikipedia
A loosely connected searchable graph of all the useful conversations
A way to quickly grasp how your community functions
This episode is different to what you’re used to. We’re thinking aloud for a possible solution more than we have it. Different-minded people ideating over a complex topic - that’s the value. Enjoy 🍰
This episode ☝️ is also available in your favourite podcasts app if you’re a premium subscriber.
Hosts:
Community builders and digital content creators. Available for contract work.
Lera: artist, full-time gen z, queen 👑
Karina: business leader, money 🤑
Anna: founder, writer, engineer 👩🏻🔬
Piotr: Creator. Efficiency Hacker. Human Jukebox 🤹♂️
Olle: product, devrel, tech 🎥
I feel like we should call Piotr a co-host here, not a guest. Several episodes ago we started feeling about Anna like this too 💖
Upcoming episodes:
You have access to the 📆 calendar with all upcoming live shows and community events if you’re a premium subscriber.
Running a Discord server for anime artists - Aigerim Aimova - Usagi Shop
The community for community builders - Alex Angel - Commsor
Using science to research online communities - Martina Pocchiari - PhD Candidate in Empirical Quantitative Marketing
Calculating ROI for a community - Nick Dijkstra - Port
Online classes for making friends - Nina Iordanova and Niloo Ravaei - Good People
Why Community Owner is not a Community Manager - Vincent Boon - Giants Technology
Using online events to build sustainable communities - Jana Boruta - HashiCorp
Soft confirmation from David Spinks - Cofounder of CMX, VP Community at Bevy
Soft confirmation from Ashley Friedlein - Founder of Guild, founder of Econsultancy
Want to see and hear someone special? Reply or email to olle@communities.show
The Communities Show, a weekly live video podcast, is booked until the end of July with inspiring guests who I cannot wait to see and hear from. Here’s a Twitter thread if you want to follow the past and future guests of the show.
This is an offer from partners, but the copy is mine.
Run The World is a platform for virtual conferences and meetups. They’re rolling out community features soon and have a mobile app. Can become a big thing. Currently discounted to USD 79
Acadle is an online school engine. Start a company-internal e-learning portal, monetise your community or just record and share your ballet classes while the school is quarantined for corona. Discounted to USD 69
/Olle
We’re eventually launching the course we had promised to launch
People, you asked us multiple times to explain our audio and video pipelines and processes. We’re exposing all our secrets and knowledge in this class.
Start an online course, convert your Instagram followers to a paid community or stand out from the crowd with beautiful audio and picture on Zoom.
We’re launching a paid course on livestreaming, podcasting and passion economy with Maven (namedrop: altMBA, Udemy) if all goes well 🤞
See the course pitch and subscribe for free updates here:
/This text has been written by Olle and reviewed by Lera and Grammarly