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title: Online Communities
description: This subject covers the strategy and tools used to build, moderate, and sustain digital spaces for users. You will understand how to foster engagement, manage community guidelines, and leverage user feedback for product growth.
category: business-entrepreneurship
subcategory: entrepreneurship
difficulty: beginner, intermediate, advanced
url: /subject/online-communities
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# Online Communities

This subject covers the strategy and tools used to build, moderate, and sustain digital spaces for users. You will understand how to foster engagement, manage community guidelines, and leverage user feedback for product growth.

## Available Resources

2 Books • 1 Courses • 3 Websites

## Courses

### 1. Community Led Growth

Learn Community Led Growth from Kyle Poyar! Build thriving online communities to drive business success.

**Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Price:** Paid

**Link:** https://www.reforge.com/programs/community-led-growth

**Tags:** community-led-growth, growth-marketing, online-communities

## Websites

### 1. Indie Hackers

Community site for founders of small, self-funded software businesses, featuring interviews, public revenue numbers, and discussion forums. Readers can compare pricing decisions, customer acquisition tactics, and growth paths across bootstrapped products rather than venture-funded startups.

**Difficulty:** Beginner | **Price:** Free

**Link:** https://www.indiehackers.com/

**Tags:** bootstrapping, startups, saas, founder interviews, small business, community

### 2. reddit.com

Reddit is a social discussion platform organized into user-created communities (subreddits) where people post links, questions, and text, and others vote and comment. It covers a vast range of topics, making it a central hub for online communities and ongoing conversations.

**Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Free

**Link:** https://reddit.com

**Tags:** websites, business-entrepreneurship, entrepreneurship

### 3. cmxhub.com

CMX Hub is a leading resource hub for community managers, offering articles, templates, case studies, and events to help you build, grow, and sustain online communities.

**Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Free

**Link:** https://cmxhub.com

**Tags:** websites, business-entrepreneurship, entrepreneurship

## Podcasts

### 1. The Atheist Experience

**Author:** The Atheist Community of Austin

The Atheist Experience is a weekly show in Austin, Texas geared at a non-atheist and atheist audience. The Atheist Experience is produced by the Atheist Community of Austin.The Atheist Community of Austin is organized as a nonprofit educational corporation to develop and support the atheist community, to provide opportunities for socializing and friendship, to promote secular viewpoints, to encourage positive atheist culture, to defend the first amendment principle of state-church separation, to oppose discrimination against atheists and to work with other organizations in pursuit of common goals.We define atheism as the lack of belief in gods. This definition...

**Difficulty:** Beginner | **Language:** en | **Price:** Free

**Link:** https://www.atheist-community.org

**Tags:** atheism, counter-apologetics, secularism, call-in-show

## Books

### 1. Community

**Author:** Peter Block

Peter Block argues that authentic communities form through conversations about possibility and belonging rather than problem-solving or blame. Offers a framework for civic and organizational leaders to convene gatherings that build ownership, connection, and collective accountability.

**Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Paid

**Link:** https://www.amazon.com/dp/1605092770?tag=edmonddante07-20

**Tags:** books, business-entrepreneurship, entrepreneurship

### 2. The Art of Community

**Author:** Charles Vogl

A guide to building strong communities using seven enduring principles: boundary, initiation, rituals, temple, stories, symbols, and inner rings. Readers learn practical tools for fostering belonging in organizations, online groups, and social movements.

**Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Paid

**Link:** https://www.amazon.com/dp/1449312063?tag=edmonddante07-20

**Tags:** books, business-entrepreneurship, entrepreneurship

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