As community managers, we’re usually people’s people. We think about our community members, their challenges, and the value we can provide for them. We put an effort into finding interesting discussion topics and exciting online activities to generate more engagement. When we started off, we regarded our role as community…

FIRE (Financial Independence, Retire Early) is a powerful motivator behind the “Great Resignation” trend. COVID-19 shocked the world, shining a spotlight on some issues we made no time to deal with back when we were occupied with our pre-pandemic daily lives. Over a very short period of time, our lifestyle…

I’ve been working with community leaders for a few years now, advising and mentoring them about their community and how to build, sustain, and monetize it. I’ve come to realize that when it comes to monetizing a community or a network, I can clearly divide these leaders into two general…

Though communities are as ancient as humanity, online communities are only as young as the medium in which they exist. Facebook introduced its group feature about ten years ago, and it took the users some time to realize the power that these groups held. This exciting feature enabled anyone to…

According to facebook, as of April 2019, more than 400 million people are members of groups that they consider significant. In February 2017 the number was only 100 million. We are all members of groups, but when our engagement in a group is meaningful to us, we usually refer to…

Social media lets us all be members of many “tribes”. Back in our cave days, we’d sit around a single fire with our fellow cavepersons; now, we can belong to countless tribes simultaneously, playing a different role in each of them and warming up to several fires. The tribes we…

“A few years ago, I opened a small group for web designers. I wanted a place where I could safely share ideas and consult with fellow designers and colleagues. Today more than 7,000 of the best designers from my city are in this group, and I’m investing over two hours…

Not too long ago, Vimeo, a professional video platform, launched its own marketplace of talent. It was a super-smart move that allowed the platform to provide huge value to the community of professional video creators who used it as a tool. It added another layer that boosted engagement and even…

After publishing my last post, “How I made $1.5M from my community and how you can do the same”, I received all kinds of responses, but the most reoccurring one was “please tell me more about how exactly you did it”. …