🍪 A Community Cookie for your thought

Holaaa Folks!

Welcome to our weekly newsletter about everything community. We are at 593 subscribers and growing!

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💡 In the Spotlight

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💪 CommunityHub Spotlight with Marmik Mankodi, (AVP Marketing, Mosaic Wellness)

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"We thought that while building the products, it makes sense to build a platform, which allows men to live confidently, not only by offering them products, but by even offering them a community of sorts." - Marmik

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Chat Based Platforms - Slack vs Discord

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Creator communities, learning communities and Brand communities are hot right now! The community has turned out to be the primary source to gather real-time feedback on products/content, learn about upcoming trends in the industry, and gain loyal followers/users.

Communicating with the users/followers through community helps build a stronger relationship than social media.

We also talk about a couple of top chat-based platforms for your community.

How do you pick a community platform? Here's how :

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1) Define the Community Personas

Identifying your community personas will help you streamline the content, engagement and networking events for your members, basis which you can pick a platform that facilitates all/most of your checklists.

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2) Solving Community Pain Points

Pick a platform that simplifies/automates tasks that lead to ultimately addressing your community member's pain points.

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3) Understanding community motivations and goals

Define the engagement rituals and content to be shared, basis this. It'll help you narrow down the tools/features you would want to see in your community platform.

4) List down all tools you would need

Once you have the wishlist of features/integrations with you, pick one of these top platforms that support your community the most.

In the end, this choice usually boils down to Slack vs Discord. Here's a detailed blog on this topic.

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🤝 Let's co-create Threado

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We've launched Threado for Discord! 🙌

If you run/manage a community on Discord, sign-up now for early access, checkout the product, and let us know what more features would help you manage your community better!

If you're running a community (irrespective of the platform), sign-up here to join the waitlist.

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🗞️ Community Space Reads

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💬 Zulip - An open source combination of synchronous + threaded conversations

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🎙️ 7 social audio room apps

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📝 A journalist's perspective on how to build healthy membership communities

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🎖️ Best Community Platforms 2021 - Part I : Chat Based Platforms - Slack vs Discord

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🗓️ Community Events

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📅 5th August, 9:30 PM IST : Commerce & Community: Vol I. RSVP here.

📅 11th August 10:30 PM IST : Understanding the 202 of Security in Online Communities. RSVP here.

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Cheers,

Team Threado

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