Community Dev Newsletter
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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...
What to do with complaints ✨ Community Dev Newsletter #25
Community Dev Newsletter 🤠 HELLO. I am writing this newsletter in a sleepy haze due to post-GDC and April Fools shenanigans, but The Demands of Content™ wait for no one!!! SO LET'S GOOOOOOOOOO. 🎻🎻 I'm just a GIRL expected to do WORK that I SIGNED UP FOR 🎻🎻 This month's newsletter dives into: My strategy for figuring out what someone is complaining about A feedback activity 26 interesting community related links and job posts Whine whine whine Let's talk about figuring out what someone is...
Are you "the face" of a game? ✨ Community Dev Newsletter #24
Community Dev Newsletter 🤠 Hey everyone! Happy 2 YEARS(!!!) of the Community Dev Newsletter. 🥰🥳 This project has been so fulfilling, and I'm grateful to everyone for clicking and reading. Whether you just subscribed yesterday, responded to every single email, casually lurked, or just skimmed this, thank you so much!!!! I was so nervous this wouldn't be helpful (especially since there are so many great newsletters out there already), but all of you came together and contributed to much to...
Community & copywriting ✨ Community Dev Newsletter #23
Community Dev Newsletter 🤠 Alright, well. January has felt like several months in one. Yay February! (Hello, I'm back!) Me during the entirety of January. This month's newsletter dives into: Good writing and its usefulness as a community manager A copywriting activity 26 game marketing related job postings and 12 cool resources Copywriting & Community It can feel difficult to train a skill when there's so much out there to learn. So let's start small! Tiny steps every newsletter to level up a...
Do you need a community portfolio? ✨ Community Dev Newsletter #22
Community Dev Newsletter #22 🤠 Happy almost end of year aaAAHHH!!!! Before we dive into this - I'm taking a winter vacation from the newsletter in December, so the next newsletter will be in February. 🥰 I've been chatting with several community managers about portfolios recently. While it's not necessary, it did get me thinking about what one would look like. (It's pretty common for social media managers, for example.) Because I don't like talking about things I haven't done myself, I thought...
"A day in the life" launch recap ✨ Community Dev Newsletter #21
Community Dev Newsletter VICTORIA TRAN HELLO!!!?!?!?!?! October was BUSY for me! We launched a new Among Us map which went super well... Suspiciously well. Makes me think I've missed something haha. Oh the joy of being Young Man Celebrating Victory Isolated Anywho, one of the most common questions I get is "what does a typical day look like for you?" And while a launch day is far from typical, I did my best to track what my schedule looked like as I was going through it. Keep in mind this is...
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