👋 Hi everyone, I'm Cassie and based in Denver, CO! I'm currently building communities of all sorts at LinkedIn, previously I was at Yelp and NewsBreak. 🤝 Asks and offers ◦ Asks: I'm focusing more on the Ops space these days, so looking to learn more about operationalizing for scale, but really eager to stay in touch and keep a pulse on everything good and great in community. ◦ Offers: Some of my strengths include organizing virtual events, member engagement strategies, launching new communities, and LinkedIn as a platform. 🤗 Would love to connect with people of all sorts, but especially with others that are focused on the creator economy, those who work in news/media, and/or freelancers who have built out their own community businesses/consultancies. 🏃‍♀️ For fun: When I'm not corralling my two little ones, I like to run, try new restaurants, and go to the theatre! 🔗 Find me on LinkedIn here

🙋‍♀️ Hey folks! I’m Lauren and I’m based in the SF Bay area 🌉 (east bay for those familiar) I was formerly the Head of Community at Alive Ventures, a venture studio (now dissolved 😭) that built new companies to enrich the lives of adults 65 and older. I led a 700 person insight community, spearheading user research which directly contributed to product development. • 🫶 Asks: I’m back on the job hunt looking for opportunities to lead social impact, professional, or creative communities. Any suggestions, leads, or words of encouragement are greatly appreciated! 💚 • 🫵 Offers: Some of my strengths include gathering deep insights and translating them into action, building community from the ground up, facilitating community connection, and streamlining operations. 🥳*For Fun* : I’m an avid baker 🍪 and DIY enthusiast who enjoys a good crafternoon spent fueling my creative soul 🎨 🤝 I’d love to connect here or via LinkedIn but have a strong preference for a short convo 🗣️ so we can really start to get to know each other!

Hey y’all! 👋 I’m Drew-- Community Manager at NetApp! 📚 Background: I joined NetApp in January 2020 after 10 years in enterprise networking support, network lab management, and community management. That came after spending four years in NC State’s Computer Engineering program before changing my mind, and ultimately graduating with a B.S. in Meteorology ⛈️ 📍 Location: RTP, North Carolina 👨‍💻 Work Stuff: Community Management (Khoros platform)! My team’s focus is on Digital Support experience (think KB, Community, and Support Site). I also co-manage the NetApp Discord, which has about 3,000 members. Our latest venture is a weekly 1hr show, live-streamed on NetApp’s YouTube and Twitch channels. 🎮 Hobbies: I love to travel and see new places. I also appreciate music 🔊, gaming 🕹️, data analytics 📊, craft beer 🍺, photo and video editing 🎞️, and all things tech 🤓. Oh, and food 🤤 🖇️ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dclaybrook/ I’ll talk about pretty much anything, especially if it helps someone else be successful with something new! Just ask!

👋🏽 Hi humans, Wayne Sutton 💼 I’m the Community Lead at Observable, the data collaboration platform bringing teams together to make data-driven decisions faster. ↔️ I’ve been in the community space for 10+ years, I can help with strategies, event marketing, community tools, and growth measuring. I’ll never turn down help to brainstorm engagement strategies and tools. 🌍 Based in San Francisco 🏍️ For outside of work, going on motorcycle adventures is my passion 🔗 You can find me on Mastodon, Twitter, IG, LinkedIn and Observable

Hi everyone, My name is Minh Pham, and I’m currently a post-bacc student who will apply for medical school/law school upcoming years. I’m currently in need of help with streamlining the operating process, so everything will move seamlessly. With my knowledge and breadth of experience in Public Relations and Marketing, I would love to help if anyone needs help. I’m open to connecting with anyone because each of us did have our own unique skills to contribute to help with my mission (to bring everyone together and to resolve the problem within any orgs). I’m currently training for marathons and triathlons outside of work. If you are into training, feel free to let me know (I would love to train virtually with everyone. Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/khaiminh93/ Looking forward to working with everyone. Best, Minh Pham

Hello everyone, 👋 Teo here 💼 I am the founder of a community-building service for ambitious web3 projects. My partner and I were very involved in the NFT space before and noticed how poorly communities were managed so we decided to go from investing and researching into a more active role — building alongside the web3 projects and helping the best become better. Web3 is all about community and a lot of people understand its importance but don’t know how to properly build it. Here’s where Gravity3 comes in. 📍 Currently in Romania, but will be moving to Barcelona, Spain soon. ☀️🌊🌅 🫂 Areas where my partner and I can help: Discord (security, design, features etc.), any Crypto/Web3/NFT related topics, Community Brainstorms etc. 🌿 Absolutely in love with nature and green. 🌴🌳 🍰 Love cheesecake and 🍫 chocolate! 🌱 I like growing and learning. “If you’re not growing, you’re dying…You’re either climbing or sliding” — Tony Robbins 🔗 My Twitter: https://twitter.com/TEOS0L I love connecting with ambitious and genuine people, no matter their roles, but mainly interested in community talks, web3, VCs and cool, new Web3 projects. Happy to help with whatever I can, so feel free to ask me anything. Let’s connect! I am very excited to be here! 🤩

Hey everybody 👋 😄, I’m Tim 💼 What I do: I’m co-founder of IfWeRaise, a platform for underserved founders focused on giving them fairer access to knowledge, network and capital to get their business flying 🚀. My own background is as a founder through to exits, more recently working as a early stage advisor, partly with London School of Economics accelerator programmes etc. 🌎 Location: London, UK 😎 Hobbies: All the live music of London 🎵, and escaping to southern Europe when the London weather gets too much 🤓 I’m here to: learn how to best support our paid member Slack community (engagement, deliver value) 🔗 Let’s Connect: https://www.linkedin.com/in/timdeeson/ + we’re looking for angel advisors if you’re interested 🎯 🙏 Request: Any playbooks, recipes, tools or methods you’ve found particularly helpful for engagement, supporting productivity, onboarding for Slack?

Hello hello! I'm Saidah (si-EE-duh) 🦸🏾‍♀️I'm a community manager for comic creators on Webtoon who are making original stories for our platform. My role is essentially to help creators who originally engaged with their work as a hobby/passion project make the transition to seeing this now as a career (and all the creative + mental transitions that come with that). • 🗺️ Based in Oakland, CA + Cleveland, OH • 🙋🏾‍♀️ Could use some help with finding different frameworks you've used to design onboarding programs in the past (emphasis on frameworks – I love to nerd out about different philosophies/approaches to this work) • 💁🏾‍♀️ Down to offer advice on how to incorporate principles of UX into community building (how to do just enough research, user personas that get used, journey maps, and more) • 🎤 Hobbies include singing, flower arranging, hosting parties for minor holidays (think Valentine's Day/Memorial Day/Summer Solstice) 🔗 linkedin.com/in/saidahbishop

Hello Everybody, my name is Juraj (u rai) 👋 I am the co-founder of Gravity3 together with @Teo Gravity3. We are primarily focusing on working with experienced founders building ambitious projects in Web3. We want to build a healthier Web3 ecosystem by helping those already quality projects to stand out even more by building a vibrant, thriving community with them. I am primarily looking to connect with fellow Web3 builders, VC executives and community builders to build something great together and share knowledge. I am more than happy to provide my knowledge of researching and investing in NFT projects as well as online community building. 💪 I am not sure if it is a “fun thing” but outside of work, I enjoy 🥋 Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu and 🏐 beach volleyball. www.twitter.com/futuristicS0L www.twitter.com/gravity3.io https://communityhacked.slack.com/archives/C03TG4NG90E/p1677578669242889

My job description has changed, so I'll be taking a hiatus from Community Hacked for a bit. I just wanted to thank everyone who has been sooo supportive of my transition into Communities. Thank you!

FYI I switched off new joiners over a month ago but will start letting some new vetted people in soon, as well as start promoting the community more too, so expect some nice fun new members joining soon 😄

💕 Hi everyone, I’m Michelle Wu 🎉 What I do: I'm the founder of the Web3 Chief of Staff Community (Web3CoS) and the Chief of Staff at MetaMask (leading self-custodial wallet in crypto). 🗽 Location: NYC & digital nomad 🙋🏻‍♀️ Asks and offers a. Asks: would love to learn from the group on ways to develop and foster a sustainable community (Web3CoS started out as an organic grassroots community and we are now looking to create more structure) ◦ Offers: I am happy to share my experiences in both web2 vs. web3, hiring/recruiting for a Chief of Staff, and executive level coaching for senior leadership/business partners 🧘🏻‍♀️ For fun: I love discussing self-introspection & spiritual growth (silent meditation retreats, therapy & trauma work), finding my next adventure (climbing Mount Kilimanjaro in August), learning (reading historical memoirs, listening to bio-hacking podcasts), and staying active (yoga, barre, pilates, marathon) ✌️ Let's connect ◦ LinkedIn ◦ Twitter

Hi everyone! My name is Rachel Mackey. I'm Head of Platform at OCA Ventures. I am working on building community within OCA for our founders and advisors. I also co-lead an organization called V2:VC, a peer community for rising VCs investing and operating in the Midwest. Ask: I need help with driving community engagement on a consistent basis, but making sure the engagement is valuable to members (instead of spammy). Offers: I can help others with building their own networks and how to think about the structural/ framework aspects of getting a new community off the ground. I'd love to connect with others in the VC space who have been able to build community within their portfolio successfully, and learn how they did so. Outside of work- I hang out with my husband, two dogs, and two cats. I love being outside & being active, and I read a lot of mystery & thriller novels :) linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rachel-mackey/ insta: @rachelmariemackey community: v2vc.org

Hi everyone, my name is Sean and I work in Product @ Yahoo by day and work on building community organizing tools by night. At work or as a member/leader of associations outside I’m passionate about bringing people together. My background is in organizational design, community tooling, and engineering - happy to help where I can! I’d love to connect with other community builders helping more people meet up in real life and build meaningful connections I live down in sunny San Diego, and outside of work I love to cook, hike, and read; always looking for great book recommendations! Right now I’m reading (and enjoying) Scaling People from Stripe’s COO You can find me here on LinkedIn. Excited to connect with you all!

Hello 👋 I'm Victoria and I'm the Community Lead at MedAll, a medical education platform for medical organisations & healthcare professionals to host, attend and watch teaching & training, live & on-demand. We're on a mission to democratise healthcare training, making it free and open access to all. The company is global, but I'm based in Belfast, Northern Ireland ☘️ Ask: I'm a Community newbie, I transitioned from Ops Management, and was employee #6 at MedAll . The main thing I need help with is how to continually prioritise community when it comes to growth, and to not just use it as a way to attract new customers, but to foster relationships with existing ones. Offers: As a generalist I can help with a wide range of things but also nothing super specific. My experience is in running events, starting & managing ambassador programmes / cohorts, growing social media accounts organically, running customer interviews and writing (case studies, social copy, newsletters, email campaings, help articles etc). I'm also a good listener and creative thinker if anyone needs a sounding board 🙂 Connect: I'd LOVE to chat to others in the #MedTech space 🩺 feel free to message me on here anytime, or connect on Twitter or LinkedIn. Outside of work, you can find me in a boat — I'm passionate about all things rowing 🚣🏼‍♀️

Hi all community fellow leaders! Virginia here, I lead Programs and Community at Latitud. We are a platform for early-stage startups in Latam. We currently have a community of 1400 founders, 250 angels investors and over 500 mentors. Always looking for ways to get better at community building 🙂 so happy to be here.

Hey everyone! I'm Mike, I work at Thunkable as a Product Solutions Architect on the CS team. I help our community and clients build no-code mobile apps! I've spent most of my career as a Software Developer but have pivoted to Product and CS roles. Eager to learn more about growing and empowering communities! Would love to connect on Twitter or LinkedIn. Fun fact, I live in a small village of 600 people on the beautiful Bruce Peninsula in Canada. You should check it out!

Hello friends. I'm Sai, CEO and current head of community at Crowdcast — We're an online events platform to build community. I've done a lot of community building in the SF Bay Area and now have a community of event hosts that we are building at crowdcast. Looking to learn more about the nuances of building a tight community of users online. My specialty is product design and engineering and happy to offer any feedback from that lens. When not at my desk you'll find me spinning fire or DJing. ☄️ Looking forward to connecting more with you all. Feel me to ping me on Twitter and LinkedIn.

Hi everyone - I'm Jen, director of recruiting at Bubble! We're a no-code app development platform focused on empowering everyone to build web applications 🙂 I'm here to learn from you all about community, make sure we're looking for/hiring the right way for our director, community role, and set them up for success in terms of expectations and metrics. Nice to meet you!

Greetings 👋 my name is Erin, I use she/her pronouns and reside in beautiful Northern California. 🌉 ✨ I am on the Community Team at Patreon (working with Emily Lakin if you happened to catch her speak at last week's community hacked event), managing community programs for creators. ➡️ I always love hearing a good community retention tactic, and can offer advice or insight on building community operations, founder communities, and creator communities 🤝 I enjoy connecting, but if you send me a LinkedIn request be sure to include a note on why you're reaching out! 🌲 In my free time you can catch me hiking and camping, selfishly I am trying to become a Hipcamp Mate, so if you happen to know anyone running this community program, let me know 😉

Hey everyone! I am officially the member that took the longest to introduce themselves from date of joining 🙃 …but here we go! Glad my chat with @Alex Gordon-Furse (Community Hacked) got me to finally stop being a lurker! 👋 My name is Maiko, based in 🇬🇧 London, UK (originally from 🇩🇪 Hamburg, Germany) 💼 I’m the Founder & CEO of Impact Hustlers, a global community for founders who solve social & environmental problems. ⁉️ Need help with: Scaling and monetising a chapter-based model + online membership community 👉 How I can help: Taking new products from 0 to 1, customer development, cold email campaigns, anything startups 🤝 Want to connect with: Fellow founders & those that want to access a community of founders 🪂 I do paragliding outside of work Learn more: *www.im*pacthustlers.com www.linkedin.com/in/maikoschaffrath

Hi! My name is Jenna Spinelle and I'm based in State College, Pennsylvania - the home of Penn State University. I'm excited to be here and learn from a group of community pros 🙂 I founded a podcast network called The Democracy Group and we're almost a year into our community-building journey. We want to move from one-way communications through podcasts and give our listeners an opportunity to engage with our hosts and with each other. We currently have a Twitter community but aren't sure if it's the best fit for us in the long term. If anyone here is interested in starting a podcast expanding the audience for the one you have, I'm always happy to share what I've learned from five years of podcasting 🎧 Outside of work, I'm an avid runner and am doing a half marathon next weekend! I also play the saxophone in a community band 🎷 You can connect with me on LinkedIn or Twitter.

Hi everyone 👋, I am Madeleine Milne and I am based in London, UK. Delighted to be part of this esteemed group. I am supporting, predominantly B2C membership and subscription businesses with their community strategies having launched and build a number in the past in media, entertainment and professional services (www.customer-ization.com). I, along with some other community pros based in London (don’t think they are on here so I can’t tag them in) have recently set up www.communityprosoflondon.com too - if you are based in or around the Big Smoke so join us - it’s free and very much led by the group so if you want to meet others in the industry IRL (that will be our focus) do join. I need help with - nailing the message that community is a must have for any business and always looking for great case studies of how it is working with other B2C organisations. (still a lot of education needed I feel in the UK on this.) happy to help with - anything to do with building a paid-for communities I guess. Happy to help with any gnarly recruitment issues you might be having too. Also, if people are applying for things/ putting together proposals, I am very happy to help review/ give feedback/ do CV calls if ever of any use (the professional services org I was in was all about career development so I did a lot of CV reviewing). 🤓 want to connect with - fellow community builders, founders, and anyone working in the paid-for community space particularly. Outside work - I try and get out of town for some fresh air 🌳, horseride 🏇 (am a total novice and it freaks me out but hey, I think that’s a good thing) and look after my 2 kids🧒 🧒. V happy to connect with others on LI - https://www.linkedin.com/in/madeleine-milne/

👋 Hi, I'm Stephanie but I also go by Steph. Nice to e-meet everyone! 💻 What I do: I'm the Slack Community Manager for Salesforce. I'm responsible for our internal Slack workspace experience and engagement that hosts all 70,000+ Salesforce employees globally. 🌎 Where I am: SF Bay Area, CA 🫴 What I can offer: I'm on the edge of 14 years of community management, strategic growth, engagement, and technical support experience. Formerly of Zapier.com and Coda.io. 👐 What I'm here for: To connect with other high-impact community builders and leaders in the enterprise space. ✈️ My pastimes: I've traveled to 4 different countries in the last 1.5 years. Most recently, I returned from Japan two weeks ago. 👹 🖇️ Connect with me: LinkedIn

Hiya! I’m Marcela - great to connect with you all! 💻 What I do: Co-founder and running ops, programmes and community at the Fundraising Bootcamp, a platform and training programme helping startup founders raise capital from VC funds. Also a startup mentor for Barclays Eagle Labs and the Scottish Tech Scaler. 🌎 Where I am: I’m Brazilian, have been in London for almost 8 years. My big personal news is that I have put everything into storage and I’m becoming a nomad. 🤭 Starting in Porto. Anyone in the area? 🫴 What I can offer: my whole career has been in early stage startups (I’ve co-founded two and worked for two) and building startup communities. I’m a weird mix of generalist operator and community head. If you need anything in the startup space, I can help. Can also help with anything around startup funding as well. 👐 What I’m here for: I’ve been building communities for 8 years but since I’m always wearing multiple hats, I’ve never managed to prioritise community as much as I’d like. My main challenge now is driving engagement from uber busy startup founders, and doing that while only dedicating about 20-30% of my time to community. ✈️ My pastimes: I travel a lot (16 countries last year), I’ve been learning about wine and I love reading. 🖇️ Connect with me: LinkedIn

Hello everyone - my name’s Hugo, I’ve been in this group for some time but @Marcela Donatello made me realize, I’d never introduced myself properly (thx Marcela!) I’ve also been a bit out of the loop over the past 4 months due to paternity leave, but just like Spring, I’m mounting a comeback 💪🌿 💻 What I do: Marketer turned independent community builder. Recovering corporate suit working in startup ecosystems for past 7 years. Definitely a generalist, main skills around marketing/communications, community building, events and partnerships. Until last December I was working full-time on building the startup community at TechQuartier and managing the hub’s partner network. Left and took a bit of a leap of faith to try and build my own thing. This week I got an exciting news that I will take over on a fractional basis partnership management for a European founder community. I’ll post more on that in the #5-celebrate-wins-together channel once the ink is dry! 🌎 Where I am: Based in Hamburg (🇩🇪), originally from Montreal 🇨🇦🦫 🫴 What I can offer: I know the German startup and innovation ecosystem(s) quite well, can provide insights on that. I’m also quite experienced when it comes to what I guess you could call ‘’peripheral community skills’’, i.e. communications, content marketing, event management, customer relations (Hubspot CRM), partnerships. Would definitely be open to help out founders / startups in the community space as advisor or mentor. 👐 What I’m here for: Learning from experts through events/workshops, connecting with peers. I’m especially interested to learn from others in my situation, i.e. working independently on solo-businesses or on fractional basis. Life as a working parent is also something I want to learn more about, having two kids aged 1 and 3,5. 👶👶 ✈️ My pastimes: Besides changing diapers, I love craft beer, good cinema, beautiful hiking trails and talking about sports (mainly ice hockey and UFC). 🤣 Fun fact: I took the plane for the first time at 20 to go to India (another leap of faith.) Stayed a year there, and even played in some Bollywood movies as an extra (see pic in the thread 👇 I’m the guy on the right) 🖇️ Connect with me: LinkedIn

Nice to meet you! What I do: Digital Content Coordinator at Junction Creative. I have also founded and lead a handful of in-person communities over the years. I’m currently building a pilot community for a national mother/daugher volunteer organization, with the hopes that it will be adopted for the entire organization. I’m passionate about content strategy + community. My background is in photojournalism and story-telling. Where I am: Atlanta, GA My pastimes: Hydrow rowing, knitting, quoting Will Ferrell movies What I'm here for: To learn, to build, and to bask in the glow of the kindness of community. Connect with me: www.linkedin.com/in/juliekobin

Hi everyone, great to be part of the community and looking forward to connecting with like-minded individuals. 💻 What I do: My name is Ajeet and I’m currently Director of Curator Community at the music company, Sofar Sounds. Curators are local event organisers who help bring Sofar to cities across the world; creating live music experiences in creative spaces for artists to connect with audiences. I lead a team as well as a community of over 300 event organisers across the world, helping to grow and support a vibrant community that are helping to stimulate local music scenes. 🌍 Where I am: I’m based in London, UK - a born and bred (south) Londoner (the south part is important 😜) 🫴 What I can offer: I’ve had an extensive career spanning over 20 years starting in youth advocacy and campaigning, to working in government, the charity sector, marketplaces, but my passion really lies in the arts and creative industries. For the last decade I have worked in the field of creative and social entrepreneurship (how to grow and scale creative and social businesses) and the role in which community can play as part of this, so if this is of interest to anyone then very happy to share more insights. 👐 What I’m here for: Really interested in expanding my network and sharing approaches to growing and scaling international communities. I’m always interested to learn what different tactics people are using and if this might work for my context, and vice versa, to share what we are doing and learning that might support others. Opportunities to collaborate, share creative solutions and explore any crossovers would be great! ✈️ Pastimes: Quite the broad spectrum! Home baker, avid-DIYer, street food/craft brewery lover (really buzzing at the moment in London!). 🖇️ Connect with me: LinkedIn

Hi all! I’m Mariana, also go by Mari 💻 What I do: I’m the Content & Community Lead at Bonfire — we’re a no-code site builder for creators, communities and brands that have digital assets like NFTs and social tokens. So think of it as the link-in-bio for web3. 🌍 Where I am: Based in beautiful, sunny Lisbon. 🫴 What I can offer: I’ve mostly worked in early stage startups so I’ve been the marketing generalist who knows enough about a lot of things. Have worked as a copywriter, content manager, ambassador program manager, event planner and so on. But nowadays I spend most of my time trying to understand how creators and communities can use web3 for loyalty and rewards so if any of you are curious to talk web3 or creator economy or general best practices around content and community building i’d be happy to chat! 👐 What I’m here for: Adding more tips and tricks to my toolkit, collaborating on projects, helping each other out and just generally meeting smart, kind people. ✈️ Pastimes: Yoga, nature time, meditation and dancing. 🖇️ Connect with me: LinkedIn, Twitter

Hi everyone, happy to be here! I’m Leah Bae 👋 💻 What I do: I’m the Community Director at Higher Ground Labs, a venture fund and ecosystem builder for political progress. Also the Co-founder of The Burnout Project, where we offer education & workshops for burnout prevention & awareness. 🌍 Where I am: Toronto, Canada 🫴 What I can offer: Comms/marketing, politics/democracy ecosystem, effective community engagement, burnout prevention 👐 What I’m here for: I want to learn from you all! Especially keen on connecting with fellow community builders in VC. ✈️ Pastimes: Frequent traveler (40+ countries), cycling by the water, quality time with loved ones, and watching Ted Lasso 🖇️ Connect with me: LinkedIn, Twitter