How do you stay updated on latest trends/best practices in community growth and managed

@revathimenon - I will be the first to admit I don’t utilize it as much as I should but communityroundtable.com is a great resource.

I’m on the marketing lists for 5 or 6 non-Insided vendors and occasionally attend their webinars if they have thought leadership beyond their platform. 

And I’m subscribe to a few newsletters:

• Evan Hamilton’s Community Manager Breakfast
• Jenny Weigle’s All Things Community
• David Spinks’ substack
• Adrian Speyer’s The Accidental Community Manager (he also has a book of the same name)
• Richard Millington and co.’s Feverbee newsletter

And a few more, but those are my 5 favorites. 

And I’m on the marketing lists for CMX and The Community Roundtable, occasionally attending their events. And there are probably a dozen other communities for community managers, most of them seem to be slack groups that I don’t love. 

But the best way I’ve found is to connect with or just Follow these same people and others they amplify on Linkedin. I probably have 20 community thought leaders or working community managers that fill my feed with interesting blogs on community or community-adjacent topics a few times per week. 

@Chris Hackett Just started following them a while ago myself too. Thanks for sharing! 🙌🏽

@DannyPancratz 3 new newsletters for me to subscribe to now - love it! 😁

Thanks for taking time out to share these details!

Thank you so much @DannyPancratz, that is a goldmine!

I also highly recommend the Community Club - not only do they have an amazing & helpful community of community-builders (so meta!) on slack, but also they publish lots of useful resources on their website.

As well as the Community Club Weekly Newsletter you can sign up to.

Cheers!

Thank you @Daniele Cmty ! This one’s really new to me - added it on to my list.

Just signed up to their newsletter too 😊!

@Daniele Cmty I should have mentioned the Community Club; I’m on that list too. 

I agree, their resources are often quite useful. 

Thanks for calling that out.

Podcasts are my favorite flavor of thought leadership! Unfortunately, the stream has really dried up in the past 8 months or so. Each of them has a long list of past episodes, though, for folks to catch up.

My favorites:

• The Community-Led Show
• Masters of Community with David Spinks
• In Before the Lock with Erika Kuhl and David Oblinger
• Facilitator Forum, though it was more about connecting individuals in conversation
  • I truly loved this episode in particular: https://open.spotify.com/episode/0mQXElSjurWxl4MRvekglm?si=11fb9f55810b4f82
• The Community-Led Growth Show with Joel Primack
• Uncommon Conversations