The Community Nerd
Jillian BejtlichExploring the science, structure, and delightful strangeness of digital communities, one nerdy tangent at a time.
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Latest Issues
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The Personalization Trap
For years, personalization has been the thing we were supposed to want. Better recommendations. Smarter onboarding flows. Content surfaced just for you, based on your behavior, your interests, your history with us. Entire landing pages cate...
When the Crowd Isn't Actually There
Evidently a few too many of us watched Field of Dreams in our formative years and then became community builders because far too many of us are familiar with the founding myth in community management: If you build it, they will come.
Over-Designing Communities to Their Untimely Death
We talk a lot about communities that failed because nobody showed up. Empty forums, tumbleweeds and dust bunnies collecting in digital corners, the occasional “is this thing on still?” post from someone who found the space through a Google ...
The Subtle Art of Not Setting Your Platform on Fire
Changing the rules in a community is one of those things leadership teams treat like rearranging furniture. Move a couch for better feng shui. Swap a lamp shade. Maybe announce it in a tidy blog post and maybe update the legal T+C.
Authors
The writers behind this newsletter.
Jillian Bejtlich writes with one brain and two lenses. The Community Nerd explores the architecture and psychology of online communities. Wine Aisle Adventures applies the same systems thinking to wine, translating grape complexity into human terms.
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