Welcome to the Community Management Starter Pack repository! This collaborative space is dedicated to providing a comprehensive collection of resources tailored to beginners in the field of Community Management. It doesn't matter if you're just starting your journey or seeking to enhance your existing skills, this repository aims to be a go-to hub for valuable insights, guides, and best practices.
Within this repository, you'll find a growing collection of articles, tutorials, templates, and tools curated specifically for aspiring community managers. For a more basic knowledge of what community management is, the skills required to become a community manager and some tips on how to land a job, please refer to this introductory article
Contributions are highly encouraged! Do you have a helpful guide to share, an insightful article, or a useful tool? Please feel free to contribute and make a positive impact on the community management community. I believe that together, we can build a comprehensive resource hub that empowers individuals at every stage of their community management journey.
- Articles
- Videos
- Communities to join
- Some Community Managers to follow
- Community Management courses
- Community Management Newsletters
- Books
- Tools
- Build your Portfolio
- Where to find Community Management Jobs
- 1000 true fans
- Building Community by Lenny
- How to Become a better developer community manager
- Community ≠ Marketing: Why We Need Go-to-Community, Not Just Go-to-Market
- The Beginner's Guide to Community Management
- 10 Online Community Engagement Tactics You Can Steal
- How to Plan Your Developer Community’s Activities for a Whole Year
- How to Boost Engagement with Community Rituals
- Community Content: How to Build Your Community ‘Snack Table’
- Rosie Sherry — Founder RosieLand
- David Spinks — Founder CMX
- Laís de Oliveira — Author, Building Communities
- Krystal Wu — Senior Community Manager, ZoomInfo
- Kamaldeen Kehinde - Community Specialist, Ingressive for Good
- Shannon Emery — Community Manager, Higher Logic
- Evan Hamilton — Director of Community, Hubspot
- Olga Koenig - Community Consultant
- CSchool Self paced by Community Club (Free)
- The Community MBA by CMX Academy ($499 — scholarship available)
- Meta Certified Community Manager Course ($150)
- Community Management Master by Digital Marketer ($495)
- Community Strategy Academy - (Free and paid courses)
- The Business of Belonging by David Spinks
- Developer Marketing does not Exist by Adam Luvander
- Tribes by Seth Godin
- Online Community Management For Dummies by Deborah Ng
- The Art of Community: Building the New Age of Participation by Jono Bacon
- Notion - for keeping all project-related information in one place.
- Grammarly - for vetting your texts.
- Quillbot - for rewriting and enhancing your sentences.
- Mirror - for visual collaboration.
- Canva - for creating graphics, presentations, and even video editing
- Invideo - for video editing
- Loom - Asynchronous video messaging
- Luma - for setting up events and ticket sales
- Streamyard - for live streaming
- Icebreakers - a repo of icebreakers for your events
- A community manager's role varies from company to company, but this document contains different community roles and their job descriptions.
- A Community Manager's Portfolio by Fibi