As an avid reader, I work to read as many online community-building books as possible. The online community space is new and developing in real time. The challenges we are facing today as a collective community industry make it more important than ever to state the importance and value of why communities are the future of social networking.
I’ve worked over the past few years to write book reviews once I complete a book. I’ll provide a list of book review links below this list of recommended books. I’ve updated this a few times, and if you find a book missing, please email me at [email protected] so I can add it to the growing list. Many books can also be found on Audible if you aren’t a big reader.
Community-Led Business Books
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Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us — Seth Godin
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The Business of Belonging: How to Make Community your Competitive Advantage by David Spinks — I did a book review on this and you can read it HERE
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Build Your Community: How to Turn Your Customers, Members, and Audiences into a Powerful Online Community by Richard Millington
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Retention Point: The Single Biggest Secret to Membership and Subscription Growth by Robert Skrob
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Building Brand Communities: How Organizations Succeed by Creating Belonging by Carrie Melissa Jones
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Building a StoryBrand: Clarify Your Message So Customers Will Listen by Donald Miller
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Building Community on the Web by Amy Jo Kim
Increasing Engagement and Participation
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Get Together: How to build a community with your people — Bailey Richardson, Kevin Huynh, Kai Elmer Sotto — I did a book review on this and you can read that HERE
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The Art of Community: Building the New Age of Participation by Jono Bacon
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Buzzing Communities: How to Build Bigger, Better, and More Active Online Communities by Richard Millington
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Modern-Day Strategies for Community Engagement How to Effectively Build Bridges Between People and the Bottom Line by MaKara Rumley
Community Culture and Belonging
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The Art of Community: Seven Principles for Belonging by Charles Vogl
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Platonic: How the Science of Attachment Can Help Make – and Keep Friends by Marisa Franco
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Atlas of the Heart: Mapping Meaningful Connection and the Language of Human Experience by Brené Brown
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Fierce Loyalty: Unlocking the DNA of Wildly Successful Communities — Sarah Robinson
Community Leadership
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Decide and Conquer: 44 Decisions that will Make or Break All Leaders by David Siegel the CEO of Meetup
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The Widest Net: Unlock Untapped Markets and Discover Ne Customers Right in Front of You by Pamela Slim
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Dare to Lead: Brave World. Tough Conversations. Whole Hearts by Brené Brown
Community Management
Book Reviews by Deb
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