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  1. I'm digging the new options with Claude. The UX feels very nice. I just tried drafting som…
  2. My reading in the coming days... #algorithms #book
  3. People gotta stop investing in their social presence and simply invest in their web presen…
  4. I think I'm done with the term vibe coding. We're intentionally describing and building th…
  5. More good This Week in Community (TWiC) chats with Rosie Sherry. We land on the RED framew…
  6. Are we noticers? "Noticer": An interesting term used on a recent politics podcast. They re…
  7. "We build rooms where AI agents join a shared space, message each other, and keep a conver…
  8. Rosie Sherry’s community building skills are so powerful she has the ability to remotely o…
  9. Scroll on by. A technique for protecting yourself from all the social media platform nonse…
  10. Instagram Is Not My Job The music world’s growing embrace of social media and content crea…
  11. On the FourSquare acquistion: "Translation: The Foursquare acquisition was a $0 outcome fo…
  12. /dev/null, a social network for developers. #community-example
  13. I had to screenshot this for prosperity. With #facebook you now have to pay to post more t…
  14. I'm really enjoying how AI can feed into our natural day to day actions and conversations,…
  15. Isn't it funny that when you run a community type busines, then so many people think they …
  16. Made up a word and wrote about it: Disyearnment #Disyearnment
  17. Salesforce Trailblazer community is migrating to Slack...interesting times! #migration #sl…
  18. Most UK high streets these days are struggling, or are nowhere near reaching their potenti…
  19. Meta is enforcing the training on data and they also just began charging users to post lin…
  20. Oh, wow, Tana.inc kind of pivoted to focus on meetings...but their notetaking tool is stil…
  21. Belonging applies in all the places. I saw in a job ad recently: "Belonging policies - inc…
  22. Keep looping, keep learning.
  23. invest in yourself cos it's also an investment in others #Community
  24. Great speaking with Nicola Earle and Rosie Sherry during an episode of This Week in Commun…
  25. Discovery before design, yes!
  26. YES to Webrings!! Does anyone in Rosieland have a good current list of them? It's been a f…
  27. "We don't use the word solution, because it brings a silver bullet mentality. We talk alot…
  28. Relational world view: an embodied understanding of the interdependent relationship that e…
  29. Community wealth extraction: this involves an entity, often a corporation in search of sho…
  30. There are many kinds of wealth, outside of the money: occupational, social, community, phy…
  31. Latest TWiC episode is live: Listen, capture, analyse: the vibeometer and action-first com…
  32. Shoutout to the musician worriedaboutsatan. His new track "A New Life Awaits You in the Of…
  33. What feels weird today is how empowering it feels to write without any help from AI. It al…
  34. This is a cool use of (community) tech. We should be building more localized community too…
  35. Community has never been free, it was just never clear who has been footing the bill. #com…
  36. When two critical vulnerabilities compromise multiple OpenAI employees’ ChatGPT accounts. …
  37. Let communities have memory, yes! "The answer is not to rebuild the old Internet exactly. …
  38. “People don’t host real public gatherings anymore; they host ‘eventslop,’ where the main p…
  39. Faffy. An important aspect of event management to look out for. Is it a faff to make happe…
  40. My faith in spaces for young people was restored last night. I took my daughter to an indi…
  41. I often imagine what a good life would be, and increasingly I feel it is the ability to ju…
  42. Marie Le Conte feels what a lot of us community builders feel about social media and artic…
  43. "If we outsource reading, writing and talking, we risk outsourcing the very experiences th…
  44. While it can be anxiety inducing, I do very much like hosting in-person event days. Someth…
  45. Reflecting on listening to a podcast episode with Gordon Brown, he argues that people have…
  46. Is it possible to change people's behaviour, from scrolling to exploring? The scroll is tu…
  47. We build communities! Stop prancing around the fact that it is all about the people. There…
  48. My community is now an excuse to craft. Today I created a Bug Bag, it's small and fits on …
  49. Surviving in community is remembering all the good things you do, yet getting comfortable …
  50. Sometimes making friends is as simple as putting a sign on your driveway. #friends #local-…
  51. Interesting to see a Discourse instance being set up to feel like a social platform, I alm…
  52. Interesting to see the proposal of Australian regulation that will enable people to switch…
  53. Does Claude help us fill the gaps in our thinking or does it think for us to fill the gaps…
  54. Feels good to keep banging the Community as a Service drum. More chats about it during yes…
  55. Good problems are great. Typically, they come with growth. We recently redesigned our MoTa…
  56. The biggest challenge to community tooling are AI coding tools like Lovable. The more I us…