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The next 90 days…
I had told myself this year that I will show up even when it’s hard and I’ve committed to doing just that. The first quarter has been a bliss and here…
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“What is the best metric for measuring community growth,…”
"Is community management, social media marketing and content creation all intertwined? It seems to me, you can't do one without the other." Short…
If you could improve ONE thing…
Happy Friday! I shared a survey 2 weeks ago and today, I'm diving into some of the responses - sharing it here so you can learn alongside the persons…
Community Content: Strategy & Planning
Content is what drives engagement in any community- it is one of the things you have to look into whenever you feel people aren’t engaging or engaging…

February 2024

Having a clear purpose…
This is not the first time you’ve heard about purpose or your why- whether in life or anything at all. But just like any familiar concept, sometimes it…
Feed It Back…
Hiya! Happy new week 😇 I know I don’t usually write on a Monday but here I am 😅 While publishing on Friday gives me room to gather my thoughts, if I…
Nurture then Grow
There is a time to focus on improving the systems that would support growth and there’s a time to focus on growth, don’t mix it up! Nurture first and…

January 2024

Community Engagement: Start with Knowing Your Members
A lot of times when we get stuck with engaging our community members, it’s not necessarily about the programs we are doing or not doing- it may be that…
Life this week...
plus a lot of goodies!

November 2023

The Holiday & Engagement
Plus resource recs.
“How do I deal with an inactive community…?”
When faced with a situation like this, my go-to solution is to scrutinize from all angles to figure out what’s really going on.
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September 2023

Quiet Communities
Is Engagement Flopping, or Is Something Else Happening?
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