Rosie Sherry

Um, and I think like the most important thing as a community person is, is to kind of what I call study your people and get to know your people.

So rather than like jump in and, you know, try to do exciting things, it's like, you know, hang out with them, um,

see what they're talking about, you know, have discussions with them and then try to, I guess, like work with Cortland and make decisions on what are good things to do right now.

Everything I've done has been very kind of like practical and hands-on and very just like, let's see what we can do right now to improve things and

you know, help us go in the right direction to where we need to go.

I think it depends.

I think the problem is,

people think about the tools first and then the community second.

And I'm trying to encourage people to not think about the tools first because, I mean, we get the questions all the time.

Anywhere you go, you say, what tools should I, you know, people are always asking, what tools should I use to build the community?

And so you can't answer that question until you get to know who your community are.

You need to, like, understand what they're interested in.

You need to know where they hang out.

You need to know what tools they use.

used generally day-to-day.

So for some people, Slack's a perfect tool, and there's some really great Slack communities out there.

Lenny Slack is a great one.

It's probably one of the best managed, in my opinion, that I've been on.

And then Charlie Ward runs Weekend Club.

I think it's weekendclub.co.