Purpose Will Guide Our Path to Better Online Communities - getting back to it on Substack. open.substack.com/pub/structur...

Moody pic from the top of Val Bavona in CH this summer.

🚨 Community Leaders! 🚨 Want to level-up your community advocacy program—or launch one that actually works? Join me June 9 for a 90-minute masterclass. I'll share proven strategies, tools, and research-from my work at Autodesk, Dell, and Structure3C. $100 Workbook & tools included.

I listened to Sarah Wynn-William's "Careless People" on a very long drive back and forth to a Lacross tourney over spring break. Damn. I really wanted not to like the book and to pick her case against Meta apart. It's damning. Highly recommended. And, screw Meta.

The Future of Online Communities – Insights from the Online Community Unconference 2025 The Online Community Unconference 2025 made one thing clear: the need for meaningful connection has never been greater, but the challenges of fostering it have never been more complex. This post explores the…

And we have an agenda! Online Community Unconference 2025 #ocu25

I hope to see YOU in San Francisco on 1/8 for the Online Community Unconference. Prices go up 1/5 - still great tickets left! ocu2025.eventbrite.com Join community leaders from Adobe, Asana, Autodesk, Bill, Blanchard, Esri, Front, Hubspot, IBM & more. #cmgr #community

Bay area #community leaders - the Online Community Unconference is shaping up nicely and we are on track to sell out soon. Grab a ticket and kick 2025 off with a community of community leaders. www.eventbrite.com/e/online-com... #cmgr

MIT has a set of books labelled "Open Access" but it's a little clunky to find them on the MIT Press site, and so I've gone ahead and mirrored 400+ of them here: archive.org/details/mit_...

Where are my #snowboard instructor Bluesky peeps at? Especially interested in connecting with instructors working with nonneurotypical kids.

Hi Community Folks! I've been running the Online Community Unconference in since 2006. I'm pleased to say that we are back from a 12 (yikes) year gap to reconvene both community AND community-skilled leaders for a day of open space in SF on Jan 8. ocu2025.eventbrite.com #community

This is a real book that I actually saw in the real world recently. #cats

There is no making sense of what is going on in the new administration - and that's on purpose. theconversation.com/will-trump-c...

The Last Dragon - the seventh most amazing movie ever created - is on Netflix

The Rich and the Bored www.sfgate.com/sf-culture/a...

The Onion keeps onioning. theonion.com/heres-why-i-...

In other news - snowboard season is slowly being deployed in the Sierras.

Excellent podcast if you ever wondered WTH X-Men.

Hey Bay Area community friends! I'm planning a series of small, high-signal gatherings in late Feb / early March, between 2/28 and 3/4. If you are interested in being on the announcements list, sign up here: structure3c.typeform.com/events #community #strategy #socialmedia

Looking forward to the future of “community” practice - how might we collectively move on to a more interesting and inclusive place? billjohnston.io/2023/10/04/r...

We are awash in rich, frothy, creamy AI hype. For those of us who are community and community-skilled leaders, let's come together to cut through the hype. First step - participate in our latest survey: structure3c.typeform.com/CAIQ32023