This week in community building — Issue 99

???Cultivating Community - A Rosieland guide to building communities

Come build your confidence by learning?how to think about building community. Join us on this one hour super condensed online crash course. ?

Now Going Viral: Meeting Online Friends in Real Life

Marissa Meizz became a TikTok meme after her friends excluded her from a birthday party. She decided to do something about it.

The Human Scale

By WrathOfGnon

This makes my rosie heart sing and I can't but help think that we can and should be applying many of these human scale concepts to building our communities.

• The Three S’s of Creating Community Connections?— Hugh Lashbrooke
• What Happens on Facebook??— Charlie Warzel
• The Parameters of Peloton Celebrity?— Anne Helen Peterson
• Local governments should attract people, not companies?— Christopher Wink, Technical.ly
• A community in the heart of Tottenham has shown how to fight the developers – and win?— The Guardian
• They needed a virtual world, so they built one?— New Public
• How To Turn a Neglected Alley Into a Beloved (and Wealth-Generating) "Minor Street"?— Strong Towns
• OnlyFans Change Is Reminder To Own Platform?— Jacob Donnelly

?? Podcasts & Rackets

• Here’s How Anti-Vaxxers Are Spreading Misinformation Despite Your Best Moderation Efforts?— Community Signal
• The Secrets of Well-Governed Communities with Venessa Paech?— Masters of Community
• Using Twitter to build community?— Rosie Sherry + Mohammed Rafy
• Landing your dream community job?— Erin Mikail Staples & Patrick McCrann?
• Generalists make great Community Folk!?— Erin Mikail Staples & Brian Oslen
• How can we take care of people that are part of our community??— Rosie Sherry & Ioana Chiorean

?? News

• Launch House raises millions to launch houses (and the next big startups)?— TechCrunch
• New Regulation Could Cause a Split in the Crypto Community?— Wired
• Twitter asks users to flag COVID-19 and election misinformation?— TechCrunch