Community Dev Newsletter
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Dealing with community expectations ✨ Community Dev Newsletter #35
Community Dev Newsletter Hi! We're diving straight into The Content™ today because it's a long one, but a note that you're going to get another email from me this month. 😳👉👈 Please pay attention to it when it arrives! This month's newsletter dives into: Tips on dealing with player expectations New community activity: how to avoid spoilers without running out of content? Several related marketing/community resources and job posts Last week's question: How do you deal with the weight of...
Dealing with social media chaos ✨ Community Dev Newsletter #34
Community Dev Newsletter HELLOOOO. We're back! Welcome to a new year of the Community Dev Newsletter! 🤠 This year, in an effort to show what *actually* happens in the job of a community manager, I'll make more of an effort to address actual work issues I dealt with for the month, and how they're resolved - as long as it doesn't reveal any secrets, of course. Also! I'll be at GDC this year as part of the panel for GDC Pitch: Day 1. See you around? This month's newsletter dives into: The TikTok...
Convincing leadership to be cringe but free ✨ Community Dev Newsletter #33
Community Dev Newsletter Hiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii! This month's newsletter dives into: Convincing management to buy into more fun marketing Several links to marketing-related updates and job posts No pre-amble this time - November was ✨dramatic✨ personally, so please excuse the shorter newsletter. :) But that means you get to go right into the good stuff! Community Activity 📝 Every month we do a skill testing exercise or discussion question together. Have an activity idea or want to ask a...
Understand feedback with The ROSE System ✨ Community Dev Newsletter #32
Community Dev Newsletter Hi hello hey! Almost the end of the year!! I am trying to finish the first draft for my book about community management before 2025 so wish me luck aghhh puking crying screaming. In the meantime, we have a very talented guest for this newsletter! This month's newsletter dives into: How to sort through feedback with The ROSE System A community question about getting buy-in from management Several links to marketing-related updates and job posts Guest Post: Mary Kish We...
How to make good social hooks ✨ Community Dev Newsletter #31
Community Dev Newsletter Hewwo ✧♡(◕‿◕✿) ... Ahem. Anyway. It's spooky month, and despite being absolutely unable to handle any horror content, it's strangely my favorite time of the year! Me clocking into work every day this month. We have some LEARNING to do this newsletter. Enjoyyyy! And don't forget you can now submit a question for next week's community activity. This month's newsletter dives into: Thinking of how you can capture attention immediately on social media A community question...
Dealing with harassment ✨ Community Dev Newsletter #30
Community Dev Newsletter Hello!!! I'm recovering from PAX West as I send this, so please excuse a shorter newsletter this time around. I'm also trying something new! Every newsletter we do a Community Activity, and I thought it might be helpful to have an anonymous submission form for your questions or activity ideas. :) This month's newsletter dives into: The brief list of resources/tips we use for dealing with harassment A new community activity 18 relevant links and job posts Harrassment I...
The Community x Art Pipeline ✨ Community Dev Newsletter #29
Community Dev Newsletter Hello fellow people going through historically significant events! This month's newsletter dives into: The art process between me and our art director at Innersloth A new community discussion - how do you find inspiration for content creation? 27 interesting links and games community related job posts Community x Art I've been asked this a couple of times, which means it's time to write about it! Indie studios are often tight on resources and manpower, and so jobs...
Making social work as a team ✨ Community Dev Newsletter #28
Community Dev Newsletter Hello from Japan! I'm currently out on holiday, but as we know, content waits for ✨no one.✨ Big welcome to our new subscribers too!! This is the Community Dev newsletter where we talk anything games community and marketing related. Usually actionable tips and tricks or insight from my brain or cool folks. And speaking of cool folks, this month features a very special crab friend's insights... so read on! This month's newsletter dives into: How you can work WITH your...
Optimizing your social media strategy ✨ Community Dev Newsletter #27
Community Dev Newsletter Yooooooo. Nothing clever to say here, just read!!!! It's worth it!!! TRUST!!! This month's newsletter dives into: Learn how to ✨optimize and measure✨ the success of your social media strategy A new community discussion - create content ideas based off of A/B/C testing 32 interesting links and games community related job posts Guest Post 🎤 This week is a guest post by the dazzling, hilarious, and incredibly smart Cindy Tran, Social Media Manager at Obsidian...
Learning has me in a chokehold ✨ Community Dev Newsletter #26
Community Dev Newsletter 🤠 Hello! This month's top section is links galore - GDC talks from this year have released on the Vault, and there's a bunch of good learning to be had. Below will be a list of some of the ones I enjoyed watching - that's not to say ones not listed are bad! I just haven't gotten to watching them yet and/or tried to also focus on ones that are free to watch. (Two are locked behind a paywall though, sorry.) This month's newsletter dives into: GDC talk recommendations A...
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