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I took a lot of turns…
but eventually, I got here
Dec 12
A simple onboarding flow for WhatsApp communities
without drowning in manual work or losing the personal touch
Dec 5

November 2025

when real life enters the chat...
There are some weeks when community work goes as planned, and then there are weeks like this one, when life outside the community becomes the centre of…
Nov 29
Managing the never-ending tasks
everything is not urgent 🙃
Nov 21
50% systems, 50% people
The least favourite part of my job as someone in operations is when I have to create something that involves a team, and then get them to adopt it 😂
Nov 14

October 2025

You’re not failing...
Community work is mostly invisible
Oct 13

September 2025

Q3 Recap
some of the cool community things I did this quarter
Sep 26

August 2025

Designing Better Community Engagement
includes two amazing engagement framework
Aug 1

July 2025

"What If This Isn’t It?"
the in-between seasons of being a community professional
Jul 11

June 2025

My First Event Workflow
it didn’t exist and I had to make it exist...
Jun 12

May 2025

How I Built a Community Resource Library
the tool, the details and the lessons…
May 23
So… I took a turn into Community Ops
I wasn’t sure how to start writing this so I imagined that I bumped into one of you here and I had to answer ‘What have you been up to?’
May 8
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