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Choosing cover images for groups and spaces: a short style guide
Choosing cover images for groups and spaces: a short style guideA few of you have asked why some group covers here look great and others look like a screenshot from 2009. Fair question. Covers are the first thing you see when you browse groups and spaces, so I've written down the rules we now use...
John Hallett
Why so many first posts are pet photos (and why I'm glad)
Why so many first posts are pet photos (and why I'm glad)While going through the year's numbers for the end-of-year update, I noticed something I had half suspected: when new members post for the first time, a surprising number of them post a photo of their pet. Cats, dogs, a rabbit called...
John Hallett
Thank-you cards in eleven languages: our volunteer card-making night
Thank-you cards in eleven languages: our volunteer card-making nightEvery November I try to find a way to say thank you to everyone who turned up this year: the litter pickers, the coat swap sorters, the people who lent us a gazebo and never asked for it back. This year we skipped the shop-bought cards...
Jane Okafor
What a Therapy Dog Changed in Our Waiting Room
What a Therapy Dog Changed in Our Waiting RoomEvery Thursday morning for the past three months, a retired greyhound called Biscuit has visited our practice with her handler, a volunteer from a local therapy animal programme. I was sceptical at first. I'm not anymore.What we...
Tim Adebayo
Testers wanted: try our first two courses before they open
Testers wanted: try our first two courses before they openOver the past few weeks I've been quietly building the courses section of this network. The first two courses, Community Management 101 and Moderation Essentials, now have most of their lessons in place, and before we open them to...
John Hallett
Gears, zips and flowers: three pictures I keep for hard community days
Gears, zips and flowers: three pictures I keep for hard community daysI keep a small folder of pictures on my desktop. Not inspirational quotes, just three close-ups that remind me how a community really works when I'm tempted to fix everything at once. They're attached below, and since a few of you asked...
John Hallett
Hello there: we don't need a celebrity to grow this place
Hello there: we don't need a celebrity to grow this placeEvery so often someone suggests we invite a well-known person to join and post here. A famous musician for Music Lovers, a sports star for the Baseball space, a big-name founder for UNA Builders. The logic is simple: they'd bring their...
John Hallett
Books, podcasts and films our support groups keep recommending
Books, podcasts and films our support groups keep recommendingA while ago I asked members of the Patient Support Network what had helped them through a diagnosis, a long recovery or a stretch of caregiving. Not medically, but in the evenings, when you need something to read, watch or listen to. The...
Tim Adebayo
What a motorcycle club taught me about onboarding
What a motorcycle club taught me about onboardingLast weekend a friend talked me into joining his motorcycle club on their ride from Bishkek to Issyk-Kul. I'm not a serious rider. I own one bike, I'm nervous on gravel, and I'd never ridden in a group bigger than three. I came back with...
John Hallett
Designing a Support Community for Phones, Tired Eyes and Late Nights
Designing a Support Community for Phones, Tired Eyes and Late NightsWhen we opened the Patient Support Network, I assumed most members would join from a laptop at home. I was wrong. Almost four in five visits come from phones, and a surprising number of posts arrive between midnight and 4am, when worry...
Tim Adebayo
PHP: The Powerhouse Behind Web Evolution
PHP: The Powerhouse Behind Web EvolutionEvery few months someone asks why this network runs on PHP when everything else seems to be going serverless. Fair question, and as the person who gets the alert when something breaks, I've thought about it more than most.It has outlived...
John Hallett
What I want from NEO, as someone who organises from a phone
What I want from NEO, as someone who organises from a phoneJohn Hallett shared a first look at NEO this week, the new front end for this network: a web app built with Next.js and a mobile app built with React Native, both running on top of UNA. I'm not a developer, so I can't tell you much about...
Jane Okafor
UNA Builders Code Jam
01/10/2024 14:00 - 02/22/2024 14:00UNA Builders Code Jam
Victoria Chen
John Hallett
Jane Okafor
3 intrested
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John Hallett
John Hallett
Emily Smith
Emily Smith
Makers Network
Makers Network
Zanele Dlamini
Victoria Chen
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Community Builders Connect
Community Builders Connect
Zanele Dlamini
Bayarmaa Gantulga
Tidewell, Inc.
5 members
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UNA & NEO Collaborators Guild
UNA & NEO Collaborators Guild
Sarah Rahimi
John Hallett
Jane Okafor
3 members
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Community Clean-up Crew
Community Clean-up Crew
Victoria Chen
Jane Okafor
Emily Smith
6 members
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John Hallett
John Hallett
Jane Okafor
Tim Adebayo
John Hallett
John Hallett
John Hallett
Tim Adebayo
John Hallett
Tim Adebayo
John Hallett
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