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A five-step process to building a values-aligned online community.

This has been my experience joining every single online community I’m part of:

1. Sign up for community
2. Agree to code of conduct which you are either forced by the technology to read, or you pretend to read
3. Sign off on community values
4. You’re in! Woohoo!

I feel ashamed to say, if you’re joining my Soapbox Project community, you’ve probably had a similar experience. We only did our values brainstorm with our first 30~ members, and now... they vaguely float around in the “start here” space.

If I asked a Soapbox member to state our community values, they’d likely have to wager a wild guess.

Enough of this!

Time for values that are followed by action! Otherwise, what is the point of values?

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How do you create values for your community?

As Tatiana Figueiredo, my newest community-building mentor, says in her Build a Community Business course, your community values might not be the exact same as your personal values, but they should overlap. (I highly recommend signing up for the course if you’re looking for structured support — I’m one week in and already loving it.)