✨ Announcing the Virtual Community Chat Summit - Community Chat Weekly #24
✨ Announcing the Virtual Community Chat Summit - Community Chat Weekly #24
We're hosting the ultimate virtual event for community builders!
Community Chat Weekly is a newsletter about building and growing communities, featuring collected tweets, posts and thoughts from various community managers.
📣 Special Issue - Announcing the 2020 Virtual Community Chat Summit!
We take a break from our regular scheduled programming to announce the 2020 Virtual Community Chat Summit, a truly digital event about all things community building!
The virtual summit is a gathering of community builders helping each other navigate the world of community building by sharing resources, strategies, and best practices. No need to spend $1,000s on travel or take time off, just bring your desire to learn and network with other community builders
📅When - June 3rd & 4th
🌍Where - Online, attend from anywhere!
❓Why - to connect, learn, and grow as community builders
🦸♀️ This won't be your standard online event
This isn't going to be your typical 'webinar' style event - we're emulating much of what you'd get at a full-scale in-person event, including:
🥇Epic speakers
🔥Fireside chats, panels and Q&A sessions
📚Breakout sessions and workshops
👋1:1 video networking
🎉and an after party!
The event will feature a wide array of community content – whether you are an indie community hobbyist, B2B community manager, developer relations manager, VC platform manager, or a founder or marketer that is brand new to the world of community, there will be something for you!
🗣 Learn from the best speakers in the industry
We've got an incredible set of speakers already lined up to share their community building knowledge with you, and it is growing by the day. More content and a full schedule will be revealed in the coming weeks!
Erica is the former VP of Community at Salesforce, and Founder of Erica Kuhl Consulting. As the VP of Community at Salesforce, she ran the 3+ million member Trailblazer community as well as the Salesforce MVP and student programs.
Jono was previously the Directory of Community at Github, Canonical, XPRIZE and OpenAdvantage. He is also the author of five books, including the critically acclaimed book "People Powered"
Amir is the Founder and CPO of Reshuffle. Previously worked as VP of Product at Twitch, built Google's Launchpad community, and headed up Developer Relations at Slack where he grew their developer ecosystem from 50 to 250,000 members.
Carrie has created community strategies for presidential campaigns, non-profits, small businesses and members of the Fortune Global 50. She is also the co-author of the forthcoming book, "Building Brand Communities" and runs the Gather Community Consultancy.
Jesse is a General Partner at Flybridge Capital Partners, a venture capital firm that invests in community-drive companies. Prior to joining Flybridge, Jesse co-founded WeWork Labs and ran WeWork X, M&A, startup investments, and digital product development at the company.
Interested in speaking or helping out with the summit? Just reply to this email and let us know!
🎟 Get your ticket
Special super early bird pricing is available through this Sunday – only $29 vs the full price of $89. And we're donating 20% of all proceeds to the WHO's COVID-19 Fund!
🐦 This week in the community Twitter world
Who else is ready for in-person events again?
Shoutout to the team at Zoom keeping things running as we all strive for more virtual face-to-face connection!
Be kind to each other, especially for the next few months
Superpower 💪
📝 Your curated community reading list
A handful of recommended readings from the past week.
A sense of Belonging – 3 part series (14 minute read)
A three part series on 'product-led communities' by Spero Ventures, an investor that has been thinking about community for a long time (and has released this long read to prove it!) What is their key insight about product-led communities? They orient people around a product or service that helps people achieve a valuable future outcome, and also foster authentic connection and the pursuit of shared goals, which can be valuable to companies, as well as society.
Community Capitalism (21 min read)
This is another long one, but well worth the read if you find the time this weekend! To quote the article: "'Community Capitalism' argues that firms should not focus solely on their customers, but also on communities—so that all members of the community succeed—and all stakeholders benefit, over time."
20 Creative Ways to Engage Your Community Remotely (4 min read)
'Flattening the curve' doesn't mean you have to flatten your community's engagement 😜 Check out twenty creative virtual event ideas to keep your community engaged during these uniquely challenging times.
💬 Join the Community!
Did you know that Community Chat is more than just a newsletter? We’re also on Slack, where community leaders and builders connect with each other and share tips and tricks. Join us to partake in the next virtual hangout session!
Have a suggestion for a piece of content we should include next week? Email us and let us know!