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TWiC — This Week in Community

Meet community people at This Week in Community (TWiC). Tune in for the latest news, discussions, and insights from across the world of community building, connection, and care.

Gather around the community fire for a live conversation as we connect with the people behind the practice, explore what's emerging, and share the passion of those shaping the future of community.

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Events

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A weekly gathering to talk about all things community building
TWiC — This Week in Community image
A weekly gathering to talk about all things community building
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A weekly gathering to talk about all things community building
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Share your week’s ghostly highlights, ghoulish challenges, and spooky lessons in community

Activity

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The Internet Used to Have Places
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The Internet Used to Have Places

Contributions

Community Maxxing: trading doomscrolling for human connection and joy image
  • Simon Tomes's profile image
  • Rosie Sherry's profile image
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Swap the algorithm for your people by exploring Community Maxxing and why writing still matters for community builders who want to leave a positive impact.
Isn't it great: community builders are educators and in-person events are back image
  • Simon Tomes's profile image
  • Rosie Sherry's profile image
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  • Andy Claremont's profile image
What the seagull? Learn how educators, boundaries, and accessible events shape community building, unpacked through bird-themed lessons.
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  • Simon Tomes's profile image
  • Rosie Sherry's profile image
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  • Andy Claremont's profile image
We had a great community conversations today: we started out with seagull management, then parachute journalism, which led on to thinking about community in terms of birds the 3Cs from Claudia — Ca...
Community as a service: worth saying, worth repeating image
  • Simon Tomes's profile image
  • Rosie Sherry's profile image
  • TWiC — This Week in Community's profile image
Discover why community as a service deserves saying out loud, covering paid membership, monetisation, and shifting community trends.
Whose voice is it anyway? AI slop, ramblings and the case for a quality feed image
  • Simon Tomes's profile image
  • Rosie Sherry's profile image
  • TWiC — This Week in Community's profile image
Reflect on AI detection tools flagging LinkedIn slop, and building ramblings, bytes and quality feeds instead.
The courage to be disliked: what it means for community builders image
  • Simon Tomes's profile image
  • Rosie Sherry's profile image
  • TWiC — This Week in Community's profile image
Explore Adlerian psychology's take on community feeling, from self acceptance to confidence in others, and what it means for community builders
Vibe-code, community platform, whatever: it's about data image
  • Simon Tomes's profile image
  • Rosie Sherry's profile image
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Unpack a hamster meme, a community platforms versus vibe-code poll, and lessons from IKEA and Stack Overflow, landing on data as the real story.
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  • Drew Pontikis's profile image
  • Simon Tomes's profile image
  • Rosie Sherry's profile image
  • TWiC — This Week in Community's profile image
Rosie, Simon and Drew explore AI, authenticity, measuring what community really delivers and community building boundaries
Small rooms, lifetime members, and community Claude skills image
  • Rosie Sherry's profile image
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  • Ece Kurtaraner's profile image
Rosie Sherry and Generalist World's Ece Kurtaraner talk small-scale events, lifetime membership models, and how they're each using Claude to cut community admin busywork.
Helpful friction: why easy isn't always better for communities image
  • Simon Tomes's profile image
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This Week in Community (TWiC) — Episode 6
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