Get Together

• Celebrating & accelerating writers ❤️‍🔥 Bailey Richardson reflects on her time at Substack

  Learn more about Substack and follow Bailey.This podcast was created by the team at People & Company. 📄 See full transcript.We published GET TOGETHER📙, a handbook on community-building. Hit subscribe🎙 and head over to our Substack for updates from the team. 

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• Vulnerability is key when connecting fathers 💚 Bruce Muchelule, DADing Different

  “The journey is not so much about how many people respond. You can just impact one person and they can impact you back.” - Bruce MucheluleWhen Bruce became a dad, he wasn’t quite sure how to know if he was doing things right. He reached out on Twitter to see if there were any support groups or places for dads to find peer mentorship. He couldn’t find one, but he did receive DMs from many fathers looking for a community like Bruce.DADing Different began as a space for young and first-time dads to exchange notes, share experiences, and support each other on their journeys. Bruce has found vulnerability to be key to meaningful sharing, and he designs the community to encourage that. Too many structures and processes can be off putting for a community. Bruce opts instead for serendipity and asynchronicity in a WhatsApp group.We talked with Bruce about creating a space that is “member-led” not “leader-led” and opting for a small group of engaged, eager members. Highlights, inspiration, & key learnings:You can’t fake the funk. How Bruce started DAD-ing Different.Peer-mentorship. A space to learn together.Watering hole. WhatsApp as a home for conversation and a place to connect 1:1 with other dads.Getting started. Building confidence at the outset of organizing.👋🏻Say hi to Bruce and learn more about DADing Different.✨Say hi to Whitney, “Get Together” correspondent.📄See the full transcript This podcast was created by the team at People & Company. 🔥Say hi! We would love to get to know you.We published GET TOGETHER📙, a handbook on community-building. And we work with organizations like Nike, Porsche, Substack and Surfrider as strategy partners, bringing confidence to how they’re building communities. Hit subscribe🎙 and head over to our website to learn about the work we do with passionate, community-centered organizations.

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• A systems thinker’s approach to rebuilding trust 🔴 Evan Hamilton, Reddit

  “It's way better if members are passionate and loud than dispassionate and quiet. The fact that they care enough to yell is really a gift.” - Evan HamiltonReddit is the mothership for sub-communities known as “subreddits,” each of which covers a different topic from ask historians to cats standing up. Subreddits are each managed by a team of volunteers.Thus as the Director of Community at Reddit, Evan Hamilton doesn’t have just one community to cultivate. He has hundreds of thousands of very distinct communities he’s tasked with serving. These “Redditors” have a history of being candid with their feedback. In July 2015, thousands of Reddit moderators shut down a significant portion of the site’s subreddits to collectively boycott the company. Evan has been instrumental in rebuilding and sustaining trust with volunteers in the years since.  We talked with Evan about how Reddit builds with transparency and empathy at such significant scale.Highlights, inspiration, & key learnings:History of Reddit. How Reddit has evolved over the years with its user base.Evan’s story as a Redditor. “Redditors relish in learning about the real world and the mundane.”The community as a stakeholder. Reddit considers thier community not just as an asset, but also stakeholders.Road show. Asking for and receiving hard feedback from the community.Community council. A close circle of 50 moderators that Reddit builds with Reddit under NDA.Scaling. Separating signals from the noise. “If you only think at scale, you will fail.”Future of Reddit. Growing the user base.👋🏻Say hi to Evan!📄See the full transcript This podcast was created by the team at People & Company. 🔥Say hi! We would love to get to know you.We published GET TOGETHER📙, a handbook on community-building. And we've worked with organizations like Nike, Porsche, Substack and Surfrider as strategy partners, bringing confidence to how they’re building communities. Hit subscribe🎙 and head over to our website to learn about the work we do with passionate, community-centered organizations.

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• How SXSW created programming *with* its community 🎨Todd Hansen, SXSW & Artist Rescue Trust

  “If you're going to go to your community and build with them, realize that you're going to have to support and prop them up. It's not a part-time job. It's a full-time thing.” - Todd HansenIn the Spring of 1987, a group of music fans and journalists organized a small live event in Austin, Texas. Around 700 people showed up. By 2019, South by Southwest (SXSW) had become a 10-day conference and festival with over 28,000 attendees heading to Austin each March.Each year the conference receives 5,000+ proposals and the programs team, which Todd Hansen led, was tasked to sift through and find the 600 sessions to schedule for the final event. Though SXSW was canceled last year, that didn’t slow Todd down. He and conspirators saw their artistic friend’s opportunities disappear in the wake of the pandemics—canceled tours, exhibitions, premiers—and responded by creating the Artist Rescue Trust, which dolls out monthly $500 checks to folks who are working full time as artists. Outside of running programming at SXSW for 10 years, Todd has also run a record label, he’s the person responsible for Rich Kids of Instagram, and once owned and operated an early coach surfing website.We talked with Todd about sourcing and supercharging leads of SXSW’s session and how he recognized a need and energy to support artists through the pandemic.Highlights, inspiration, & key learnings:The History of SXSW. From humble beginnings of 700 attendees in 1987 to 28,000+ in 2019.Building with. How SXSW uses the PanelPicker system to co-create the content of the festival.The beginning of Artist Rescue Trust. Todd and friends came together to support artist affected by the pandemic.You can’t fake the funk. Tood’s innate feeling to share ideas.👋🏻Say hi to Todd and learn more about the Artist Rescue Trust.📄See the full transcript.This podcast was created by the team at People & Company. 🔥Say hi! We would love to get to know you.We published GET TOGETHER📙, a handbook on community-building. And we work with organizations like Nike, Porsche, Substack and Surfrider as strategy partners, bringing confidence to how they’re building communities. Hit subscribe🎙 and head over to our website to learn about the work we do with passionate, community-centered organizations.

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• Spreadsheets rule the world 📊 David Lyford-Smith, Spreadsheet Warriors

  “The question is ‘how do I keep my volunteers on track?’ because they're hugely motivated.” - David Lyford-SmithIf you spend a lot of time working with spreadsheets, you know they have a special power to rule the world. You can do almost anything with them from creating a shopping list to financial planning and analysis. Spreadsheets' powers lie in the fact they are accessible to people who aren’t programmers and coders. But if even just one cell is wrong, it can wreak terrible havoc.David Lyford-Smith works for the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales. In the 1990s, ICAEW started a tech faculty to serve as internal experts researching matters of technology and automation affecting accountants. In 2013, it was apparent that the excel content was the most popular, and a collective of “excel warriors” was spun up into its own community. David raised his hand to help steer the direction of the work and joined several thousands of chartered accountants and others seeking to mitigate spreadsheet risk in workplaces around the world. They’ve created accessible materials like twenty principles for good spreadsheet practice as a guide for those who use spreadsheets daily and for those without special spreadsheet skills.We talked with David about the power of spreadsheets and the way in which he is channeling the enthusiasm of excel warriors to help each other and to help the public mitigate spreadsheet risk.Highlights, inspiration, & key learnings:The spreadsheet ecosystem. The power of spreadsheets and use cases.Documentation. What matters most in creating spreadsheets in teams.Channeling enthusiasm. Giving volunteers direction.Defining “who.” Serving communities needs and creating resources in the public interest.Origin story. How a group of excel warriors emerged at ICAEW.Content creation. Building with volunteer members and online creators.👋🏻Say hi to David and learn more about Excel Community✨Say hi to Mia, “Get Together” correspondent.📄See the full transcript This podcast was created by the team at People & Company. 🔥Say hi! We would love to get to know you.We published GET TOGETHER📙, a handbook on community-building. And we work with organizations like Nike, Porsche, Substack and Surfrider as strategy partners, bringing confidence to how they’re building communities. Hit subscribe🎙 and head over to our website to learn about the work we do with passionate, community-centered organizations.

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