The first episode of The Online Community Show is officially out. 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. @Jenna Ostrye and I ended our original podcast over a year ago and this is the reincarnation of it. This is the intro. We have several interviews already recorded and ready to show yall. Some really interesting conversations and valuable info to come!

I would love your opinion on which of these are you using most in your business and why? What have been your results with the one you choose?

How active it your group per day? 1000-2500 activity per day #61 in Money - 880 visits to my about page in the past 30 days.

Let's say you're doing research to understand what your audience/topic wants for content.. But you're trying in your system to just focus that time on research, so you can later go create content on the hot topics. Where are you storing that information to ensure you implement it? Because I know for myself, sometimes I somehow let it go "MIA" (missing in action) lol and I know I can't be the only one. 👇 So drop some sauce on what you do:

We were talking about this a bit earlier in the Live Traffic Lounge...how basically every platform is shifting away from that "hyper-edited" look. It’s moving toward more raw, less edited content. I can’t believe it, but even Forbes is starting to agree. https://www.forbes.com/sites/taylorreilly/2026/01/15/why-the-most-viral-creators-are-making-their-content-worse/ They dropped an article about why the top creators are actually "making their content worse" on purpose. There’s a few reasons for this. You’ve got the "course gurus" still pumping out videos with flashy FX and huge promises that feel fake, and then you’ve got the rise of super-polished AI content flooding everyone's feeds. It’s all starting to look the same. People are just craving authenticity. Even the Instagram CEO Adam Mosseri is saying 2026 is going to favor raw, realistic content because of this. So instead of killing three hours editing one video, our time is way better spent just recording a quick Loom or pulling out the phone and speaking from the heart. (and this hurts to say as an editor) 😆 Personally, I think this is good news for us.