You can now post about IRL meetups directly in Skoolers. This is no longer limited to Skool sponsored events. The only official Skool IRL event right now is The Skool Games. By the way, IRL means In Real Life! So like meeting up in person with others. If you want to organize a meetup in your area and bring other Skoolers together, you can share it in Skoolers now. We love seeing you host IRL events! There is one important boundary to keep your post up: It cannot be self promo. This means no links to your personal community and no affiliate links. Your meetup should be open to Skoolers as a whole. Not built around your community, your offer, or a way to bring people into your space. If your post points people back to your group, your brand, or anything you are promoting, it will get removed. A simple way to check before you post: If your community didn’t exist, would this meetup still make sense? If yes, you’re good. If no, rework it. Want to double check? Feel free to message one of us to review it prior, if you'd like. @Alayna Lee @Jesse Woltersom @Ellis Sargent @Tristram Samoa The goal is real connection between Skoolers. Also, once you host one, then please feel free to post the photos and also share tips from your own experience in the Skoolers community! Sharing your tips from your experience can help encourage others to have their own. 👇 If you’ve been thinking about hosting something, where would you do it?

Today is going to have a lot of subjects that are a bit over the place.. Starting with some tea. A few questions.. Then a game of would you rather! We are going LIVE for The Skool Morning Show now. 🎥 👇 To Chat with us LIVE comment on this post and we'll pull up some of the comments.

The first episode of The Online Community Show is officially live. This podcast is focused on real conversations about online communities, community building, trust, traffic, and connection. Not just the biggest success stories, but the full range of experiences from people who are actively building communities right now. In this first episode, @Eric Howell and I introduce the show, share how we met through Skool, and talk about why online communities are becoming one of the most important places on the internet in 2026. Here are a few of the things we get into: • Why social media often feels less social today and why communities are filling that gap • How online communities create real human connection in a world full of AI generated content • The difference between traffic tools and nurturing tools when you are growing a community • Why podcasting can become a long term trust builder for your future members • How overthinking and perfectionism stop people from starting communities or creating content • Why testing, experimenting, and learning together is one of the biggest advantages of communities One of the biggest ideas we talk about in this episode is that people are looking for something real again. When most social media feeds are filled with algorithms, ads, and content from strangers, communities create a place where people can actually talk to each other, build relationships, and learn together. We also talk about something that many creators misunderstand about podcasting. A podcast is not mainly a traffic tool. It is a trust builder. Someone might scroll past dozens of short videos and forget them instantly. But when someone spends thirty to sixty minutes listening to you talk, they begin to understand how you think, what you value, and whether they trust you. That is where communities grow. We already have 3 more episodes recorded with upcoming conversations featuring @Matthew Burns, @Victoria Gallagher, @Artin Asghari, & @Ethan Brits, each bringing a different perspective on building, growing, & running online communities.

We built the ProveWorth profile live, talked through what to put in each section, and walked through how reviews actually work so it’s usable, not confusing. Most of the time was spent on the ProveWorth build itself and how to use it inside a Skool community, especially if you’re running or planning a free public community. We will have a call this upcoming Friday to go more in-depth about what @Matthew Burns has learned about the AI Discoverability, since having his website up and running. (Calendar link to be added soon) What we covered on this call: - How ProveWorth works as a third party proof layer for communities - Why outside proof matters when someone is deciding whether your community is worth joining - How to claim and build your ProveWorth community profile - What to write when you are staring at a blank page - How reviews work, including approvals, edits, and replies - Where and how to use your ProveWorth link inside Skool We also talked a bit about SEO and AI discoverability and why ProveWorth plays a role there. Things like how public Skool communities get indexed, why links matter, and how ProveWorth supports trust and visibility came up throughout the call, but the focus stayed on getting the setup right first. 🎥 Watch the replay when you can and let us know if you have any questions: https://youtu.be/7QgnYKv9qEo?views Also check out the ProveWorth profile and feel free to leave a review: https://proveworth.com/communityprofile?slug=what-is-skool I’ll make a separate post showing exactly how to ask for reviews inside your own community so you can use it as an example. As the young generation says: Very meta. (or something like that) 👉 Here is the ProveWorth community, if you want to check it out. Shout out and huge thank you to @Matthew Burns for being on the live and also creating ProveWorth! 🙌

This community helps you understand what Skool is, how the platform works, and stay up to date with platform changes that affect how people use it. Sometimes I will highlight Skool communities that are worth checking out. These are shared as real examples of how people are using the platform and what different types of communities can look like in practice. So What is Skool? Skool is a community platform where people can discover or create communities. People use Skool to run communities that include content, discussions, events, and memberships in one place. Inside the Classroom, you will find three main resources: Skool Basics This walks through what Skool is, what Skoolers is, and how the Skool Games work. Skool Build Template This is a practical starter kit you get free access to just by joining the community. The build template includes a checklist, a questionnaire to help you think through your idea, and Canva templates you can use to set things up visually. Skool Clarity Call Feedback Real responses from community members about their ideas and the clarity they gained from clarity calls. This is something I recommend community owners do for their own members when starting out, no matter what their community is about. You can see what others have to say by joining the community for free. What will the content in here look like? You will see: - Resources and templates you can use. - Our latest Skool videos and podcast episodes. - Highlighted communities that are worth checking out. - Posts about new Skool features and platform changes. - Breakdowns of how different Skool communities are structured and what is working.