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Level up your cmgr skills
Plus using curated libraries, dining with strangers & structuring your communities
Carmen Taubman
August 23, 2024
Welcome to the Community Coach newsletter, a value packed read
for community builders freaking out about Twitter’s latest AI updates…?
📚 Community 101: How to level up as a community manager
🤖 Add value to members via curated libraries
🔥 Dining with Strangers by Adele Bloch
👋 Answering your questions: “How do you go about structuring the communities you build in terms of channels etc? Do you use any frameworks?”
Community 101: Level up your community manager skills
Work on improving these important skills (that are challenging to master):
Communication skills:
Free Harvard course for persuasive writing
Ultraspeaking for public speaking
Psychology: Understanding consumer behaviour, there’s also a solid course on psychology of community by Feverbee but note this is a paid course
Conflict resolution (free course)
Add value to members via curated libraries
I've audited 400+ landing pages since 2020.
I created a library with 150+ of them.
Over 1200 minutes of actionable advice you could apply to your own pages, totally free.
Comment "Pagetear" and I'll DM it for free
(no email required)
— Blake Emal (@heyblake)
12:00 PM • Aug 13, 2024
Inspiring community builder
Dining with Strangers by Adele Bloch
Adele had wanted to build a new community - and it all started with a tweet (encouraged by another solid community called Buildspace)…
building something new...
i want to host a "dinner with strangers" experience
deep talks.
great food.
curated convos.
no work talk.
limited spots.reply below if you're interested👇
— Adele Bloch (@adele_bloch)
6:35 PM • Jun 26, 2024
This is a great way to validate a community idea - put it out on social media and see how many bites you get.
Note how Adele listens to feedback and responds to every comment:
With a solid application form (that received 500 applications!), Adele was able to host the very first event with great success - the energy was electric.
Conversation cards were custom made for the event
New goal unlocked: how many people *fly* to your community events? Especially an inaugural event?!
It helps that Adele is already tapped into a few other solid communities such as Buildspace and the Boardwalks - both having similar target audiences.
Looking forward to seeing this community grow in future (people are already requesting events in different cities!).
Answering your questions
“How do you go about structuring the communities you build in terms of channels etc? Do you use any frameworks?”
Got a question for me? DM me on Twitter and ask away. Your question may be answered in a future newsletter (and I’ll reply to everyone who asks).
Until next time,
Carmen
Community Coach
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