LBC #38 Unmissable Events, Best Hiring Guide, Klara Losert and Ilker Akansel Story.

+90 job opportunities, 20+ events, one pro story, new podcast episodes and resources.

Francisco Opazo
May 12, 2023

Happy Sunday! Community Pros 😊

Let’s kick things off for this issue: Next week's event looks promising! We will have Rebecca from Common Room and Drew Kreiger from DataOps.Live and Vishwas Kati from Insided by Gainsight and myself on a discussion panel about numbers, analytics and technology. Boom!

David Spinks shared a fantastic guide on hiring CMs!

Are community Managers also Project Managers? by Commsor.

Talkbase: 8 steps to intentionally Cultivate a Safe Place of Belonging.

We also got 5 newsletters from Pros featured this week 😃.

The Stories from Pro is back with Ilker Akansel. A must-read!

Yuri did a Community Life with Klara Loser, Founder of Talkbase.

12 jobs featured. We have news on this front coming soon!

We have set a bi-weekly meetup in case you want to RSVP to join Pros in a non-structured chat about work, life, cats, and more

The Nation for Community Pros just crossed 120+ members this week. Apply and Join HERE

I’m part of the Directors of the CMX London Chapter, and we are having a funny in-person event in less than two weeks. Learn more here

I hope you have had time to refresh, recover, and stay close to your loved ones this weekend.

Speak soon!

💌 With love Francisco and Led by Community Team.

🔥 FEATURED THIS WEEK

On Twitter this week…

Hiring for community is *extremely* hard to get right.
Today I published the comprehensive guide to hiring for community I've been working on for the last month.
Here's what you'll find in the guide: https://t.co/nDfxEJ5joP
— David Spinks (@DavidSpinks)
May 9, 2023

📈 Strategy, Operations and Analytics

Community Managers are Project Managers Too: 5 ‘Power’ Skills to Develop

We're all living in a world of projects, Christopher Eckstine shares 5 skills you'll need to learn to manage them effectively.

www.commsor.com/post/community-managers-are-project-managers-too-5-power-skills-to-develop

From Commsor: A Customer/Community Creator Program is a Content Game-changer. Here’s How to Start One. Read.
Talkbase: 8 Steps to Intentionally Cultivate A Safe Space Of Belonging. Read.
Bettermode: Knowledge Bases: What They Are and Why They Matter in 2023. Read.
Roseland: Five things community builders can do to battle the myth of self-sustaining communities. Read.
The Art of Community Building: Lessons Learned from My Experience With Chris Detzel. Read.
HomeRoom: Moderation: The Unsung Hero of Community. Read.

🤖 Announcements

Running Ruby 3.2's YJIT in Production at Discourse

At Discourse, we have been eager to adopt YJIT ever since Shopify’s Ruby & Rails Infrastructure team declared it production-ready. After witnessing promising local benchmarks, we began running our production Rails applications with Ruby 3.2’s YJIT enabled on selected clusters in early May 2023. We then spent some

blog.discourse.org/2023/05/running-ruby-3-2s-yjit-in-production-at-discourse

📨 Newsletters from Pros

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

All Things Community: Where to Post & Find Community Job Openings, by Jenny Weigle. Read.
How to Hire your Next Community Lead, by David Spinks. Read.
Customer-ization's Newsletter: The Path More Travelled. Read.
Why Prospective Clients Go Quiet And What You Should Do About It, by Richard Millington. Read.
Let's Talk Communities of Practice: Stage Seven - All Things Must Pass. Read.

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

🤯 More Resources for You

How The OT Potential Club Used Discourse to Turn Their Low-Cost MVP into a Thriving Community.

“I remember in our early discussion, we were looking at around $100,000 to build out the features we wanted. But, with Discourse, we were able to launch our MVP for $5,000 and start testing our idea right away!”

blog.discourse.org/2023/05/how-ot-potential-club-used-discourse-to-grow-a-community

And more worth reading below:

Ugenie: The Best Non-Profit Software for 2023. Read.
Rosieland: Learning to follow conversations meticulously. Read.
How Community Managers Can Work With Product Teams To Help the Product-Feedback Loop by Georgi Todorov. Read.
Drivers of your Community: How They Work and What You Should Know (Part 1). Read.
Drivers of your Community: How They Work and What You Should Know (Part 2). Read.

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🎙️ New Podcast Episodes

This week we have only two new podcast episodes available:

Community Pulse: Change is Good? (Ep 78) Listen.
Episode 64: The Community Vibe Killer You're Completely Unaware Of Listen.
Community Life #45 with Klara Losert Listen.
The Chief Evangelist 004: Joey Alvandi - Creating Networking Buckets Inside Your Community. Listen.

💼 The Job Board

We have 90+ jobs available within our Job Board but we are featuring a few below:

💼 Community Manager at Siemens. Apply.

💼 Community Manager - User Groups at Snowflake. Apply.

💼 Senior Community Manager at Great Expectations. Apply.

💼 Assistant Community Manager at Asset Living. Apply.

💼 Head of Community, Founding Team at Wefunder. Apply.

💼 Platform & Community Intern at 37 Angels. Apply.

💼 Community Manager at The Student Room Group. Apply.

💼 Community Project Coordinator at Fairfield Residential. Apply.

💼 Community Manager at Alida. Apply.

💼 Community Manager at Hawthorne Residential Partners. Apply.

💼 Community Manager at RPM Living. Apply.

📅 The Events Calendar

🗓️ May 16th, CMX Connect Calgary Community Social. Save your spot.

🗓️ May 16th, Fiverr’s Community Standards Policies: Our Dos & Don’ts. Save your spot.

🗓️ May 16th, How to Build and Nurture a Tech Community? Event by Rezoomex. Save your spot.

🗓️ May 17th, Insided- Gainsight Pulse 2023. Event by INSIDED. Save your spot.

⚒️ Tools for Community Pros

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