What do you want to learn about community building in 2023?

Start with identifying the people you want to serve and have conversations with them to see how you can help them.

B2B is still people. If you don't know how to start, you haven't done enough research or had enough conversations with people. The more you talk and understand them, the more you can figure out how to serve them.

Hey @Meirlsdiego I just wanted to share a resource that might be useful!! It's a community builders guide with a B2B focus and even a section specifically on web3 communities.

If you needed more of starting point, there's a 1st edition that's a little more how-to as well 😊

Engagement is the wrong focus. It's quite tiring for people and often it doesn't help them progress.

This doesn't mean engagement is bad, but as community people we should be looking for opportunities to help members progress.

What can you do to help them grow, learn, achieve something, get their name out there, etc?

I hope others can help be down vote this post, this is not how to do community.

I don't find that to be the case. You can design community to be whatever you want it to, it's about being clear about the expectations up front.

I have one community where people are kicked for inactivity, it's clear up front, it forces people to participate and it's been so much fun.

There's one community that sends out posts and comments to posts once per day to avoid people reacting too quickly and getting into petty arguments.

People should experiment more with what community means, I actually think we all (generally) have the wrong expectations.

Also, community isn't for everyone. It's a different mindset where you need to be willing to invest in the people.

To start community you do things that don't look like community. So maybe it's an email list. Or stories of how your customers are using your tool. Or a directory of customers to help them with visibility. This is very much building community in a small scale way though most people won't see it as community.

The community way is to find ways and tools available to uplift your customers. You don't need a forum/chat space to start a community. You need to have a mindset of helping them and sharing their stories, which in turn helps them connect with other people.

Indie Twitter is great, imho, well kinda, if you can weed out the vanity influencer threads and life hacks.

Focus on building relationships and sharing useful things and ignore the follower count. People are too obsessed with followers. People can spot lazy copy cats from a mile away, it's so much better to just engage as yourself.

Sure, anything is possible, in theory, hah.

How do you know the people are still around in the Slack? The thing with community is people mostly never churn, they just log out and don't come back, but their account remains. (It's also why number of members is such a vanity metric).

I'd say in general it's really hard to revive an existing community, but sometimes you can start building relationships with people in an existing one and see if you can revive something on your terms.

I kind of think that once a community has become inactive then the trust/faith is lost.

I've seen some start free then go paid.
Others have gone straight to paid.

As an indie creator I always think it's best to go as niche as possible with intentions to expand later. And based on this make sure the name doesn't restrict your future self.

For example, if you start as a writing community and want to serve podcasters later, don't call it 'The Writing Community' 😃

I don't know Eric, but I don't believe NFTs will be revolutionary to community building. It's the scammy tech bro hype machine in action there. That's not community.