From Scrappy to Scale: Crafting Early-Stage Communities for Culture and Growth
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This document discusses how to build and scale community culture for an early-stage company. It recommends starting with a strong sense of purpose and values, and using rituals to create a shared identity and emotional connections among community members. Rituals can be scaled organically by empowering community leaders and fostering 1:1 interactions. The key is meeting the community where they are and facilitating connections between members so the culture perpetuates on its own.
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From Scrappy to Scale: Crafting Early-Stage Communities for Culture and Growth
- 1. From Scrappy ! To Scale! ! Crafting Early-Stage Communities for Culture & Growth ! ! Emily Castor! Director of Community Relations, Lyft @emilycastor
- 2. Hey, community manager – ! you’re hired! #TrueU @emilycastor
- 3. Welcome to Day 1 What’s your job? #TrueU @emilycastor
- 4. What’s your job? #TrueU @emilycastor Social media Customer service Blog Email Events Partnerships User feedback Forums Influencers Public relations
- 5. GSD. Create systems from scratch #TrueU @emilycastor
- 6. Escalation policy User meetings Street teaming Policy research Driver hangout Driver newsletter Balloon view! #TrueU @emilycastor ! Grasshopper Desk 24/7 support Mailchimp Tweetdeck FB group FB page My first week:
- 7. But don’t get lost ! in the weeds!
- 8. You’re a communicator Nurture values, culture, and shared identity #TrueU @emilycastor
- 9. What do you believe? Start from a sense of purpose #TrueU @emilycastor
- 10. You’re doing this because you want to change the world. #TrueU @emilycastor
- 11. Ask your community to join you in that mission. #TrueU @emilycastor
- 12. Be part of people’s! world view!
- 13. Culture is “stickier” than function. #TrueU @emilycastor
- 14. Decommoditize your product through meaning. #TrueU @emilycastor
- 17. The strongest way to build culture is through 1:1 connections
- 18. Authentic 1:1 connections are meaningful, emotional, and memorable. #TrueU @emilycastor
- 19. How do you scale this without hiring an army?
- 20. I have a confession. #TrueU @emilycastor
- 21. I majored in Women’s Studies.
- 22. I studied feminism and other social movements
- 23. I never thought it would get me a job. #TrueU @emilycastor
- 24. I learned radical ideas about where identity comes from.
- 25. Identity is something we perform
- 26. Every day, through thousands of tiny actions, we create our identities. #TrueU @emilycastor
- 27. Identity is produced by rituals. #TrueU @emilycastor
- 28. We learn by watching others, then repeat what we see.#TrueU @emilycastor
- 29. Our rituals also shape our emotions. ! (Smile and try not to feel happy!) #TrueU @emilycastor
- 30. No puppet master is making it happen. #TrueU @emilycastor
- 31. Rituals scale culture organically. #TrueU @emilycastor
- 32. In P2P communities, culture matters a lot. It forms the user experience. #TrueU @emilycastor
- 33. How can we change how people feel about riding with strangers?#TrueU @emilycastor
- 34. How can we change how people feel about riding with strangers?#TrueU @emilycastor
- 35. How can we change how people feel about giving rides to strangers? #TrueU @emilycastor
- 36. Create a different ritual. #TrueU @emilycastor
- 37. Create a different identity. #TrueU @emilycastor
- 38. Create a different emotion. #TrueU @emilycastor
- 39. The mustache is a smile.
- 40. Sit up front
- 43. Be creative.
- 44. "In everything that is to excite a lively convulsive laugh there must be something absurd... Laughter is an affection arising from the sudden transformation of a strained expectation into nothing.” ! Immanuel Kant, 1790
- 45. Use rituals to dismantle emotional barriers.
- 46. Build a strong culture based on rituals your community can repeat. #TrueU @emilycastor
- 47. Powerful 1:1 interactions can happen without you. #TrueU @emilycastor
- 48. Let community leaders be the shamans.#TrueU @emilycastor
- 49. (They’ll come up with better stuff than you do!) #TrueU @emilycastor
- 50. Remember: Identity and emotion stem from our rituals. #TrueU @emilycastor
- 51. Rituals people observe and repeat. #TrueU @emilycastor
- 52. Learn the Ritual Repeat it Identity & Emotion #TrueU @emilycastor
- 53. Teach rituals to build a meaningful shared identity #TrueU @emilycastor
- 54. An aspirational identity that lyfts people up to who they want to be #TrueU @emilycastor
- 55. Psst: Identity is an engagement hack. #TrueU @emilycastor
- 56. Where do ! rituals start?!
- 57. Meet your community where they are #TrueU @emilycastor
- 58. Be shockingly responsive Convert contacts into relationships #TrueU @emilycastor
- 59. Where do ! rituals start?! Name things.
- 60. Our original pillars: Facebook group Newsletters Driver hangouts ! (Not rocket science)
- 61. Connect your community to each other.
- 62. They will perpetuate and enrich your culture through 1:1 interactions on their own. #TrueU @emilycastor
- 64. As you grow –! scale intimacy. #TrueU @emilycastor
- 65. Empower leaders.
- 67. Let the magic happen.
- 68. And be ready to! scale yourself. #TrueU @emilycastor
- 69. From Scrappy ! To Scale! ! Crafting Early-Stage Communities for Culture & Growth ! ! Emily Castor! Director of Community Relations, Lyft @emilycastor