Get Together Book | How to Build a Community With Your People

Get Together: How to Build a Community with Your People

A practical and heartfelt guide to cultivating a community, online or IRL.Although communities feel magical, they don’t come together by magic. Get Together is a practical and heartfelt guide to cultivating a community. Whether starting a run crew, connecting with fans online, or sparking a movement of K–12 teachers, the secret to getting people together is this: build your community with people, not for them.In Get Together, Bailey Richardson, Kevin Huynh, and Kai Elmer Sotto of People & Company share true stories of everyday people who have created thriving communities, both in person and online. They provide clear steps to untangle the challenge of getting passionate people together, helping individuals and organizations navigate the intricacies of leading a community, including: - How to rally the first people - How to get people talking - How to attract new, authentic folks - How to develop leaders and expand globally.The People & Company team reminds us that we each hold the potential to spark a community. Get Together shows readers that if we join forces—as company and customers, artist and fans, organizer and advocates—we’ll do more together than we ever could alone.

Here Comes Everybody (book)

Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations is a book by Clay Shirky published by Penguin Press in 2008 on the effect of the Internet on modern group dynamics and organization. The author considers examples such as Wikipedia, MySpace, and other social media in his analysis. According to Shirky, the book is about "what happens when people are given the tools to do things together, without needing traditional organizational structures". The title of the work alludes to HCE, a recurring and central figure in James Joyce's Finnegans Wake and considers the impacts of self-organizing movements on culture, politics, and business.

🧭🏘️📲 Exploring a new social product for local communities

We’re seeking local partners for collaboration as we pilot new concepts and designs

Community books rating | Notion

There are many questions from people in the CMX community, Community Club, and on Twitter, Linkedin, Facebook, etc., about what great books exist about communities. And there are tones of different book lists, but the question remains: how to choose where to start?

How to build community around your publication

Tips for building your community on Substack, courtesy of Bailey Richardson, who helped shape the communities around Instagram, IDEO, and Pop-Up Magazine.

A model for nesting connected groups with communities of practice

In the new edition of my book, Building Successful Communities of Practice, I share insights into community size and interactions. I've been using this theory with clients to create nested layers that include communities of practice that serve as a model for their organisation.

The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why It Matters

Being deprived of social gatherings revealed just how important they are; to connect with others, collaborate, share ideas and create moving, life-affirming experiences. ___________________________If there's one thing lockdown showed us, it's that time together is a gift we've too often taken for granted. In The Art of Gathering, Priya Parker shows us how to ensure that however we meet, it's a truly transformative experience. An expert on organizing successful gatherings whether in conference centres, crisis zones or her living room, Parker sets forth a human-centred approach to gathering that can help us create meaningful, memorable moments - large and small, for work and play.The result is a book full of exciting real-world ideas that will forever alter the way you look at your next business meeting, dinner party and garden barbecue.___________________________ 'Hosts of all kinds, this is a must-read!' Chris Anderson, creator of TED'Priya Parker has created both an art and a science to gathering in ways that can bring joy and fulfilment to any meeting' Deepak Chopra'A long overdue and urgent manifesto' Seth Godin, New York Times bestselling author of This is Marketing

Let’s talk about money

When we were building the first version of Open Collective, we found that communities and their members often had a complex relationship…

Starting and Running a User Group

Join me as I look at what it takes to start and run a user group community.

Collaborative Groups Protocol

A practical formula for creating and sustaining small, effective groups — designed to work together at scale.

Collaborative Groups Protocol

A practical formula for creating and sustaining small, effective groups — designed to work together at scale.

Mu for democracy - open self

designing for social cohesion

Building Welcoming Communities

Building a community that encourages people to use, contribute to, and evangelize your project.

Thoughts on Communities | unDraw Blog

Even with the best intentions and people eager to join, most attempts to create communities fail and will continue to do so.