Kyle Hagge led the community efforts at Morning Brew's Learning division as a Director of Community.
This interview is a “reflection episode” where Kyle takes us back to this time and shares his “magic sauce”. Among other things, he shares how his team decided which courses to pilot, why he chose Circle to host the community and why it's a good idea to automate connections.
Resources:
• Our free crash course where you can learn the "magic sauce" of top communities - https://beginnermaps.com/
• Curated Connections, the tool that allows communities to automate connections - https://curatedconnections.io/
• Kyle's LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/kylehagge
• Kyle's Twitter - https://twitter.com/kylehagge
• Nityesh's LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/nityeshaga/
• Nityesh's Twitter - https://twitter.com/nityeshaga/
Chapters:
0:00 Intro
02:55 What was Learning Brew?
05:36 Deciding which courses to run
10:27 Making a boring old topic interesting
12:53 Alumni Advisory Board
17:56 Transforming students through discomfort
22:28 Recording acceptance videos
24:52 Tracking outcomes
27:01 Engineering connections through automation
29:55 Circle vs Slack vs Zoom
35:28 Creating a party at virtual events
39:39 Breakout rooms
42:02 Final advice for community builders
