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Show me the Community-Driven Product Development

Pretty sure that's how the Jerry Maguire quote goes. This month, we launched our six-week learning series, Community-Driven Product Development, led by Mark Tan, Director of Product and Community at Wyze. We've still got four installments coming your way (vids drop every Tuesday), with live Slack Q&As every Thursday. Come on in, the learning's warm!

We also launched our newsletter archive, so you can see and share our super sweet past issues. And of course we have to say: If you haven't yet, join our official Slack. Got ideas for the kind of content you'd like to see next? You're always invited to drop us a note.

With great affection,

Your Uncommon Team

Uncommon Conversations: Spotlight on the Rise of the Community Leader series

Jordan Scott

Head of Community @ Airtable

"Anything you are building will be at least 10x more effective if you ask your community for their input."

Ronald Williams

Content Apprentice @ CMX

"When you trust a community, what you are really saying is 'I value your ecosystem,' which includes the people, processes, and products."

Uncommon Support

We started Uncommon Support because we believe communities are strongest when they uplift one another. We'll be releasing a collection of Uncommon Conversations and their nonprofit spotlights in October. Until then, we're uncommonly glad to sponsor five scholarships for the next cohort in Mark Tan's full community-driven product development course, Build Your Squad.

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JR;SR: Just Right; Should Read (or 👂)

Light: Asking more thoughtful questions leads to more thoughtful conversations. You can order this infinitely helpful 'Better Conversations Calendar' from Kat Vellos for community conversation inspiration in 2022.
Medium: Check out the library of recordings from CMX Summit RISE. There's all kinds of topics, lengths, and speakers to learn from.
Deep: An oldie (is 2019 old?) but a still very relevant goodie—this case study piece recommended by Uncommon community member Mike M: HoneyBook's Billion Dollar SaaS Network Effect by Ryan Berg.

News from Common Room: The SaaS Behind Uncommon

Set your community up for success: Viraj Mody, CTO at Common Room, shared his list of Technical Considerations for Evaluating Your Community Stack.
Team news: We've welcomed 7 new Roomies in the past month! Catch 'em all on our Careers page and hey, we're still hiring.

SURPRISE! Click Balloon Dog

Balloon dog's back with a mystery link that gives you a quick glimpse into what Roomies discuss on the daily.

Picture of a Jeff Koons balloon dog. Link: What do you call a group of ferrets? A list of collective nouns

Tuneage: Currently typing to Outside the Outside by Helado Negro. Related fun fact: Rebecca, your newsletter writer for this edition, has been teaching all her Vinyasa yoga classes to this artist for the past few weeks.

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