🏵 New Free Community Industry Report & Meet Our New Hire 🎉

“Businesses are realising the immense value of community as a powerful driver of brand awareness, customer loyalty and brand advocacy.”

- Selva Ganapathy, Low Carbon Specialist, Product Manager - FutureFit @ Auckland Council, Ambassador @ The CC

Quote from our new 2024 Community Industry Trends & Predictions.

Oh hey there 👋 It’s been a BIG month - FILLED with buzz around the Community Cohort #4, events galore, lots of exciting announcements and even our very own CCian photoshoot!

Crazy to think that Blackbird Sunrise was just a month ago. And here we are… In June.

To make the most of the “memories of May” and get ready for the “joys of June”, we are bringing you the latest updates from the community industry (including the official launch our NEW 2024 Community Industry Trends & Predictions Report - keep reading to find out more!)

And, as usual, this newsletter includes the hottest jobs in the community & startup space, a behind the scenes look into The CC world as well as diving into our Coffee Corner interview with Community Manager @ EnergyLab, Luke Vanderzeil.

Hot tip: if this email gets clipped by gmail, read the full edition here.

🔥 New Free 2024 Community Industry Trends & Predictions Report

We're so excited to officially launch our NEW 2024 Community Industry Trends & Predictions Report 🔥 🎉

The purpose of this free Report is to learn from 14 community voices around the world about the future of the community industry with their key trends and predictions.

Basically our team spent 1 month interviewing incredible people in the industry so you could stay ahead of the game for where the community space is going.

We loved putting this together alongside our Co-Founder, Paz Pisarski, Ambassador, Gabi Scharf and yours truly (Liz, Partnerships Lead).

Thank you to the fabulous community voices we interviewed Milly Tamati, Noel Aruliah, Margareth Egbuchulam, Selva Ganapathy, Sasmini Bandara, Reuben Williams, Leila Oliveira, Andy Loh, Elizabeth Zwerg, Talia Basma, Marta Pin and Leonie Koenig.

👉 Download the free report here.

🔥 Community Jobs

Discover the hottest jobs in the community and startup space. This section is brought to you by yours truly, Liz Partnerships Lead at The CC and Jem, our Operations Lead.

⚡Global Engagement Coordinator @ University of Melbourne (Melbourne, Australia)

🚀Partnerships Development Manager @ Wildlife Victoria (Melbourne, Australia)

⚡Workspace Experience Manager @ Hub Australia (Melbourne, Australia)

🚀Community Liaison and Engagement Coordinator @ Melbourne Polytechnic (Melbourne, Australia)

⚡Community Leader @ MYOB (Victoria, Australia) 

🚀Community Outreach Manager @ Heaps Decent (New South Wales, Australia) 

⚡Community Manager @ Parramatta League Groups (New South Wales, Australia) 

🚀Communications Manager @ Zendesk (Sydney, Australia) 

⚡Program Lead, Supercharge Australia - Innovation Challenge & Incubator @ EnergyLab (Sydney, Australia)

🚀Events, Community and Partnerships Manager @ Bondi Innovation (Sydney, Australia)

⚡Event Coordinator @ Blackbird (Sydney, Australia)

🚀People & Culture Manager @ Think & Grow (Sydney, Australia)

⚡Community Lead @ WeWork (Brisbane, Australia)

🚀Community Associate @ WeWork (Brisbane, Australia)

⚡Developer Community Manager @ Immutable (Remote, Australia)

🚀Community Manager @ Braintrust (Remote, Global)

⚡Senior Social Media and Community Manager @ AI Startup (California, USA) 

🚀Community Manager, Photographers @ Snappr (CA, USA) 

⚡Community Product Manager @ Good Inside (New York, USA) 

🚀Community Manager @ Gather (Remote, United States) 

⚡Community & Program Manager @ Venture Forward (San Francisco, CA)

🚀Community Development Manager @ Google (San Francisco, CA)

⚡Senior Community Manager @ LinkedIn (Sunnyvale, CA)

🚀Sr. Community Manager @ Netflix (Los Angeles, CA)

⚡Creator Management Community Manager, TikTok LIVE @ TikTok (Los Angeles, CA)

🚀Community Engagement Manager, InCommunities @ Amazon Web Services (AWS) (Arlington, VA)

⚡Senior Community Events Manager @ Adobe (Austin, TX)

📆 Startup & Community Events

Check this month’s latest events in the community, tech and the startup space. This section is brought to you by our Operations Lead, Jem.

📍4 June - How to facilitate brave conversations with your community with Selva Ganapathy Online

📍4 June - Melbourne Climate Tech Showcase 2024 in Melbourne

📍4-6 June - Money 20/20 in Amsterdam, Netherlands 

📍5 June - Bondi Pitch Club in Sydney 

📍5 June - Unpacking Community Impact: Real Outcomes Beyond the Engagement held online

📍6 June - Ignite Your Communication with Compassionate Candour in Brisbane

📍6 June - Sunshine Coast Inspired Minds Lunch in Sunshine Coast in Sunshine Coast

📍6 June - Redundant Charities - Book Launch in Sydney

📍7 June - Game Changers: Women in Sport & Tech in Brisbane 

📍7-9 June - Startup Weekend Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland in Auckland, NZ

📍10-14 June - London Tech Week in London

📍12 June - Sip & Share: Tickled Pink's Kick-Arse Meetup for NZ Women in Business in Auckland, NZ

📍13 June - Lightning Networking for Community Leaders held online

14 June - 2024 7NEWS VICYAA Gala Presentation Dinner in Melbourne (come celebrate our Co-Founder Paz Pisarski who is a Semi-Finalist)

📍17-21 June - Tropical Innovation Festival in Cairns

📍19 June - Antler, Rampersand, Skalata x Airwallex: Open Mic Night | Melb in Melbourne

📍19 June - Hatch: Taronga Accelerator Program Pitch Event 2024 in Taronga

📍20-21 June - TNW Conference (The Next Web) in Amsterdam

📍20 June - Townsville Inspired Minds Lunch in Townsville

📍21 June - International Women In Engineering Day Breakfast in Brisbane

📍22 June - Founders Walk in Melbourne

📍26 July - AccelerateHER Workshop in Sydney 

📍27 June - UNSW Founders New Wave Showcase in Sydney 

Are you running an event? Add your event here to our Startup Events Calendar, in collaboration with Startmate.

🏵 The CC Corner

Get under the hood of what’s happening at The CC. This section is brought to you by our Co-Founder, Paz.

🧡 We just wrapped our Community Cohort #4 🤯 We are blown away by all the love and engagement from this Cohort! There have been meetups happening across Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane in Australia and Lagos, Nigeria to celebrate. 71 CC’ians joined across 10 countries, 41 Community Strategies were created and a whopping 31,000+ Slack messages were sent during the program!! See the Graduation Video and what went down here.

👏 Meet our new hire! We welcomed our wonderful new Operations Lead, Jem Hecht, to the team. Read more here.

🤝 We’re thrilled to have welcomed Common Room as our first Cohort Scholarship Fund Partner. Get the lowdown here.

🎥 Massive congrats to our Ambassadors who recently wrapped up our Program #4. Watch our video to understand what the hell we did together.

👀 Curious about what went down in our Community Cohort #4? Read the reflection articles from CC’ians Rachel & Devendra here.

🌍 Our Cohort Lead, Jess Walker has gone travelling for the next 18 months, catch an update of where she is here.

💯 We’re thrilled to be Community Partners for the Pause Awards 2024! This year, they’re celebrating innovation and breakthroughs across the Australian business landscape! Enter now.

​🚀 We got to host the Mastering the Art of Facilitation Workshop in Melbourne with the amazing Ramon Marmolejos from Alkimia Learning - check out all the great photos and key takeaways here.

⚡ And we heard that our Co-Founder, Paz Pisarski, is in the TOP 8 Semi Finalists for the 7NEWS Australia Young Achiever Awards VIC!

😰 Did you miss out on our Cohort #4? We’ll run Cohort #5 from September this year. Pop your name down here to hear when applications launch.

👋 We bid farewell to our Events Associate, Sanchi, as she pursues a new path as a founder and podcast host 😢 👏 Send her your best wishes here.

🎟 Keen to win a FREE GOLD Ticket to Tropical Innovation Festival this June in Cairns, Queensland? Enter here.

📰 Our free FKS community hit the press in Startup News with our pop-up community at Blackbird Sunrise. Get the low down from Jack Hallam.

😍 We’re so excited to announce our new partnership with StartSpace 🎉StartSpace is an open and inclusive community of early-stage founders looking to learn, connect and build new businesses, powered by State Library Victoria. We've partnered with them to co-host incredible events, support their founders to build communities and share resources. Learn more about them here.

☕️ Community Builder of the Month

This month, get to know Community Manager @ EnergyLab, Luke Vanderzeil. To Luke “a successful community to me is one that builds on itself.” Read this Coffee Corner catch up with Luke.

Are you a CC’ian who’d like to be featured? Complete our Coffee Corner interview series.

🤪 Let’s Laugh

We love to leave you with a smile… especially if you’re feeling like everyone and their dog are launching new communities left right and centre 😆 “Join our Community” has become the new “Subscribe to our Newsletter” (debate-able whether that’s actually community…).

We also love this one with Buzz & Woody since our Cohort #4 have been obsessed with Toy Story memes this program 😂

And that, fellow CC’ians, is a wrap… THANK YOU for being the EPIC community curious legends that you are! We love serving you.

Thanks for reading. Got a question or feedback? Just hit reply 🧡

Until next time,

 Liz, Paz, Jess & Jem
The CC Team

Free Community Industry Report & Meet Our New Hire