We <3 Community Leaders/Nurturers
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You know who needs more respect and appreciation? Trick question!
You thought I’d say “integrity professionals” and that’s absolutely true. But also: community builders — the reddit moderators, slack group tenders, forum administrators, and general community nurturers online.
Tomorrow, Thursday, at 2-3pm ET / 11-noon PT, we’re throwing an event for them.
Specifically, Laure Cast, a member of Integrity Institute, is running a panel! Over 100 people are already signed up. We do that now — public, member-run events. :-)
Sign up here. And the blurb in case you want it:
Communities live on platforms, but often the first people dealing with trust & safety are actual people: the admins, moderators, and community managers who have both different goals and different tools than platform-side T&S folks.
In this conversation, we'll talk to 3 amazing community experts about how they think about T&S, what works and what doesn't, as well as what they would love to see platforms do to support them.
If you run a community or support communities with your products, this event is for you.
Also on the panel:
Evan Hamilton, Director of Community at HubSpot
Pixie Cigar, Director, Online Communities at Teach for All
Cassandra Marketos, (on staff and a member!) has a background at Kickstarter, Urban Dictionary, and the White House
In other news:
Hey, remember how we’re doing a partnership with Everything In Moderation to highlight different cool integrity professionals? Another one dropped a few weeks ago (sorry, I was on vacation/had covid). Check it out: https://www.everythinginmoderation.co/bri-riggio-discord-writing-content-policies/
Bri is also a member! She’s joined us while at Discord, and I have to say she’s been constructive, engaged, deeply intellectually curious, and full of wisdom. I encourage you to read the article; she goes in-depth with her answers and speaks honestly. Bri — thanks for all you do!
Lastly — don’t forget that we launched our Elections Integrity program a few days ago! We have a whole hub, we have a bunch of released reports, we have a new misinfo amplification dashboard. It was covered in the New York Times. It’s a whole thing! And people seem to like it. Here’s Jeff explaining it a bit more on twitter, if that’s the sort of thing you’re into.
Keep on trucking. More soon.
Sahar