Community Canvas: A framework to help you build meaningful communities

Raycast

Top Hunter

Hunter

Think of this as the "Business Model Canvas", but for communities. @halbluchs @pforti @supermombartz have spent the last 15 years building and participating in communities, and while each is unique, they've realized that they all share a similar structure. As such, the Community Canvas is making this structure visible to help people build more sustainable and successful communities.

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8yr ago

Nico Luchsinger

Community Canvas

Maker

@chrismessina Thanks so much for hunting the Canvas Chris! We're excited to have launched it after three years of work. Great communities can be such a powerful way to connect people and share experience and knowledge. But building and maintaining communities is hard. That's where the Canvas can provide guidance and structure - whether you're trying to build a new community, or improve an existing one. We're grateful for any feedback or thoughts from other community builders!

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8yr ago

Fabian Pfortmüller

Community Canvas

Maker

@chrismessina thanks so much for your support Chris, very much appreciate it and would love to hear if you have any advice on how to improve future versions of the Canvas. Thank you!

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8yr ago

Ken Savage

CookieJar

Thank you very much @halbluchs for putting this guide together. I'm building a maker community of my own and this has given me some good guidance.

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4yr ago

Fabian Pfortmüller

Community Canvas

Maker

Thank you all for supporting us on our journey! We are grateful for your help to reach more community builders and most importantly, learn from them. Please reach out to us if you have any feedback or advice on how we can improve future versions of the Canvas and make it as valuable as possible for community builders anywhere, and hopefully through it help the world build stronger communities.

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8yr ago

Ken Savage

CookieJar

@pforti It would be awesome if you could share anything new that you've learned since releasing this guide. I've got a few new ideas with your guidance so far.

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4yr ago

Victoria Ivanova

Great job guys! Have you tested this framework on other communities besides Sandbox?

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8yr ago

Fabian Pfortmüller

Community Canvas

Maker

@victoria_ivanova we've built the Canvas based on observations from many different kinds of communities, would LOVE to hear any ideas you have how to improve it or how we could make it more practical for community builders!

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8yr ago

Dardan Thaçi

@pforti @victoria_ivanova I'd like to see different scenarios where you deconstruct communities like: reddit or quora and show us how it really works with the philosophy of canvas.

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8yr ago

Fabian Pfortmüller

Community Canvas

Maker

@dardanth - yeah that's what we're thinking for next step: case studies of different kinds of communities and lots of examples!

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8yr ago

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