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📈 How to scale the community faster?

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Have you ever felt out of your depth, like a fraud, and just guessed/bullshitted your way through the situation, petrified that at any time, someone was going to call you on it? - Mike-Cannon Brookes

Building community takes time. There are no short-cuts, no magic tricks, no workarounds, and no guidebooks. You have to be patient and consistent in your efforts, whatever they may be. Everything else will eventually fall into place.

In 2018, I took a Udacity course in front-end web development and found the community managers to be stellar advocates who were really motivating. I was looking to break into tech, and got inspired and started applying for community-type jobs as a result. I landed my first gig at Khan Academy, where I led and managed volunteer groups for a year before moving onto Quora to oversee writer and power user programs, and am now doing the same at Retool. - Alina Din, Community Manager at Retool
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet tw-align-center"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">How to Scale a Community:<br><br>1. Create an experience that people love <br><br>2. Write the playbook for how to run that experience <br><br>3. Give the playbook to your community members</p>&mdash; David Spinks (@DavidSpinks) <a href="https://twitter.com/DavidSpinks/status/1285251874866765829?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 20, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

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