Bethany Grace

Why you need to consistently communicate who you are, what you do and why you do it? By repeating your origin story at every event your new members will leave not only inspired but equipped with the language to invite others to the next meet-up. Consistency is always key. 🔑

@iamvalentinaruf I’m part of Community Squared - a slack group for UK, London based CM’s. I’ll post your tweet in there 👍

Who do you know who is an amazing community manager, based in EMEA region and would be great on a virtual stage as a speaker?

Running social media accounts derails your faith in humanity. Trolls truly are a drain on the internet.

@sorokti @schock @JeffMerrell Thank you!! Any suggestions for podcasts too by any chance? X

Community heads 🛑 What are you reading right now that’s expanding your community mind?

@NoeleFlowers Telling people they aren’t social media managers

Community Managers love... 🤓Puns 👩‍🏫Having semantic debates about our field 🍷🍵☕️ Calming beverages 💻 Saying they're going to take a vacation and then actually checking Slack/their community the whole time 🥲Seeing people in their community become friends IRL What else?

@yenFTW You my friend. Are my favourite person of the day.

@M_Gagliano @yenFTW Just signed up, love @RosielandHQ as well

If you're building a community, subscribe to the @yenFTW newsletter. one of the best I've seen on communities. their goal: "democratizing community building and enabling more folks to do what we do"

Been reminded this afternoon that growing a community focused on connection is so much more important than focusing on the growth numbers. I knew better. Why is so easy to fall into that trap?

When gathering testimonials from your community for marketing remember to think about results E.G - If you’re an educational community, potential members want to see other members results, projects they completed whilst being part of your community, or the new job they landed.

As part of my latest role, I've been working with a team to launch a men's health community. I wrote about why it's so important here. bit.ly/mens-health-co…

How do you encourage your community to share their wins and their struggles? To celebrate their wins and also share their lows. It’s so crucial to get the balance right so see an empowering community grow and flourish

Regarding the @sainsburys advert - looking at the accounts - so many of them are fake hate accounts. Where is the community management @Twitter - how can you let this blatant racism just exist on your site? How can you be okay with that?

@naomimgsmith Ps that’s a long long way 😮 well done

@naomimgsmith Sending you virtual love

If you can inspire pride within your community - so that your members are proud to be there - you’ll have no problem attracting new members. What do you do to enable pride within your community?

Looking for @britneyspears to release Britney’s Dance Beats: Lockdown Version with matching dance mat.

Bring in specific thought-leaders on relevant topics into your community to create extra value and inspire a new generation of thought leaders within your community.

@saeidhalvaeian Sounds good! What’s Lean Coffee?

@bethgracegill We do what we can. We used to meet at coffeeshops and did a Lean Coffee. Now we use Zoom + Trello to recreate best we can.

How are you replacing offline meet-ups in your community? Are you missing the real-life connections?