I’m Rosie Sherry, I build communities and I'm the founder of Rosieland. AMA 🔥

@automatedtester Community is a team effort, I think it would be really hard to build an authentic community without the engineering expertise. The best communities are founded and started by the experts and I think it's a big reason communities start to fail, we need those 'passionate' experts to keep driving communities forward. However, the amount of 'operations' required to run a community often goes unnoticed, there's probably a lot of day to day community admin stuff that could be allocated to a community manager rather than an engineer. That would at least start to free up some of their time to perhaps work on more valuable or impactful things. And what should they avoid? Mostly being wasteful and vanity metrics (and in contrast focus on solving problems and being creative/refreshing in the work being done).

@nikhilbapna ❤️

@sydney_liu_sl I love Front Porch forum, how it breaks the norms and has found a way to succeed with local communities. They do things like delaying the ability to respond to a message to once a day. Facebook would benefit from having this functionality 🤣 I'm also a fan of local communities and feel it is very much an underserved market. https://www.theverge.com/2019/1/...

@richw build relationships, have conversations, become known for that person/company/community that does x. Do as much as you can in 'public'. People are put off this because it is slow, but the deeper you go, the more relevant you become and the more people will pay attention to you.

@bogdan_negrila if you have a following, then you have plenty of people to reach out to. I'd start by contacting people personally and trying to build a relationship and common understanding. Or maybe host an event, or create some kind of invite and see who shows up. Maybe punters don't want to share their inside knowledge? Maybe coming for the information is enough? We don't need community for everything.

@rosiesherry thank you very much for your answer.

@rosiesherry @bogdan_negrila You can also try and post on https://biztoc.com by Mark Cuban

@zainab_saeed1 First up, you're not alone. "Engagement" is the biggest challenge for community builders out there. Many of us haven't really been taught or trained in any aspects of how to have good conversations or how to research the needs of the people and the community. They key to engagement is not in the tools, no tool will solve that for you if you can't figure out how to connect and be of interest to your members. Every community that I lead, I dive in deep to understand the ecosystem I'm serving. For me, and especially the professional communities that I naturally gravitate towards, there is no other way. How can we facilitate good conversation if we don't understand what matters? If we don't understand the trends? The pains? It's not necessarily about us knowing everything, but it's about knowing what questions to ask, or what things to post. It most definitely takes practice. I call the research phase 'Community Discovery'. I've written about it here: https://rosie.land/posts/a-guide... Also of interest would being careful of the engagement trap: https://rosie.land/posts/the-com... Also worth considering is the fact that sometimes just posting stuff isn't enough, you need to put effort into getting people to see those posts.

@zainab_saeed1 Sure, the best places to find me are at: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rosi... Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/rosiesherry Website: https://rosie.land (newsletter + membership)

@anne_robertson thanks!

@vincent_meco I have monetized communities, in varying ways. With Rosieland I use Ghost as my main website and membership. With Ministry of Testing that I founded, it's membership, events, sponsorship, but most of it is custom built, when necessary. And I don't think there is a 'best', but I'd love to see easier to implement membership options that also handle tax requirements.

@jas801 Sure.