Welcome to edition #2 of The Community Roundup, the monthly Australian newsletter that keeps you up to date with the community industry.

And welcome to August! You can expect this to land in your inbox on the 1st day of every month, written by The Community Collective (The CC), a community for community builders in the Australian and New Zealand startup space. 

You might also notice our fresh new look 😏 We moved platforms from Mailchimp > Beehiiv for the minimal design, analytics dashboard and homepage of past editions.

Any feedback, let us know! Happy reading 🧡

What's happening in the community industry?

Read this section for the latest news, events, jobs, resources and thought leaders in the community industry.

News

> CMX has brought back their scholarship program to attend their CMX Summit conference in USA.

> Feverbee published their methodology about how to determine how much your community is worth.

> Swarm Conference announced Head of Community from Reddit Australia, Theodora Chan, as a speaker on building community ambassador programs.

> Shopify has laid off 10% of their staff, affecting various roles, including the community team. Hear from Senior Community Manager, Krystal, about it here and CEO, Tobi, here.

>  Notion, the community tech tool and productivity startup, has decided not to pull back on investing, despite the larger macro slowdown.

Events

> Aug 2: The Community Case: Strategies for Getting Buy-in and Vendor Approval is all about learning how to secure buy-in at the executive level.

> Aug 3: How to Increase Member Engagement is The CC #11 member meetup with Siân Simpson at Public Rally.

> Aug 9: Gamification is a Fireside Chat with community strategy consultant about gamification techniques and trends. 

> Aug 11: How to Build a Devoted, Productive Customer Community is a free workshop hosted by community builder Jono Bacon.

> Aug 15 - 19: Swarm Conference is the longest running conference for community professionals in the world, hosted here in Australia.

Jobs

🏵 Community Ambassador @ The Community Collective (Remote, Australia)

⚡ Director of Membership, Summit Community @ Innovation Bay (Remote, Australia)

💫 Community Manager, Founder Communities @ Innovation Bay (Remote, Australia)

🚀 Senior Community Manager @ Immutable (Remote, Australia)

🎼 Community Manager @ RØDE (Silverwater, Australia)

🏠 Community Manager @ JustCo (Sydney, Australia) 

💱Community & Operations Associate @ Macquarie Group (Sydney, Australia) 

🏘️ Community Manager @ Patreon (Remote, Global)

⛰️Community Moderator @ NEAR Foundation (Remote, Global)

Resources: Community Platforms & Tech Tools

> Airtable is great to build member directories and resource libraries. 

> Burb and Zapier are tools to automate and streamline your member journey.

> Pory, ScaleGrowth.ai, Circle and Hivebrite are great all rounder community platforms to host your members on.

> Discord and Slack are great for communicating with your members.

> Kajabi is great for building online courses for members.

> Luma is great for member directories and event invites. 

> Notion is amazing for hosting community guidelines, resource libraries and program descriptions.

> Pallet is great for monetising jobs boards.

Thought Leaders

The CC Corner

Read this section to find out what's happening at The Community Collective.

> Ambassadors: Join us! Become an Ambassador of The Community Collective to be at the forefront of building an impactful community. 

> Partnership: Have you heard of Butter? We're excited to partner with them to host our online meetups (it's a Zoom alternative). Learn more about them here.

> Free Butter Training: We're running a free training for our members on how to use Butter for your online events and workshops.

> Help us: We're nearly ready to launch applications for our 6 week cohort! There's just one missing piece... the name! Please help us vote for the name here.

> The CC Cohort: Register to hear when it's launched (and which name we landed on 😏).

> The CC #11 Meetup: Become a member to join our meetup on 3 Aug to learn community engagement tactics. This is a Q&A with the incredible community builder, Sian Simpson @ Public Rally. 

Know someone who should join us?

We're always looking for more community builders to join The CC Meetups! 

Thanks for reading! What did you think? Hit reply to let us know 🧡

Until next time,

Paz and The CC Team