Rebecca Marshburn
Writing As
Community, Common Room
She runs community at Common Room and is a driving force for smart growth, member nurturing, and content creation.
The 2023 Developer Relations compensation & culture report
Aug 31st, 2023·5min readThe 2023 Developer Relations compensation & culture report, produced by Common Room, highlights the lived experiences of 136 Developer Relations professionals. It offers...Community plus sales, not community vs. sales: How we work together at Common Room
Jul 14th, 2023·14min readSee how we view the partnership between community and sales at Common Room.How to build and grow a Slack community using Common Room
Jun 27th, 2023·13min readCheck out how we used Common Room to build and grow our Slack community.How we seeded our future champions program using Common Room
Feb 8th, 2023·8min readLots of companies have built champions programs to admire, including customers like Asana and Figma. We wanted to take those best practices and combine them with the...Community work in context: Aligning expectations in 2023
Dec 29th, 2022·2min readDrawing a straight line between community work and business impact is the surest way to earn continued community investment. Use our free self-guided workshop to start...Uncommon Book Club 📚 Adrian Speyer and The Accidental Community Manager
Dec 28th, 2022·14min readThe Uncommon Book Club invites industry leaders and authors to share their expertise with community builders everywhere. We recently welcomed Adrian...360: The Community-Led Growth Report
Nov 17th, 2022·3min read360: The Community-Led Growth Report offers insights and actionable next steps for community builders and leaders in community-first organizations, based on 141 communities at various stages of longevity,...Crafting memorable community events: A collaborative collection of ideas, advice, and best practices
Oct 18th, 2022·10min readWhen you bring your community together, you want to deliver a memorable event that continues to resonate with...10 lessons from 1 year as a community manager: Learnings from Max Pete
Sep 19th, 2022·6min readMax Pete, Community and Customer Support Lead at SuperHi, dives deep into the top 10 lessons he learned from 1 year as a professional community builder....Uncommon Conversations podcast: Deep talks with community & DevRel leaders
Aug 19th, 2022·3min readIntroducing Common Room's Uncommon community podcast: Community and DevRel leaders perform incredible feats to grow, engage, and support their...The 2022 Developer Relations Compensation Report
Jul 28th, 2022·3min readThe 2022 Developer Relations Compensation Report, published by Common Room, highlights key data for DevRel and Developer Advocacy professionals as reported by 147 respondents in the...Empathy everywhere: Community impacts every team in an organization
Jul 6th, 2022·13min readAs a community and DevRel leader, you can empower your partner and stakeholder teams with direct insights into the most relevant aspects of community activity...How to prove the ROI of your community: A content collection
May 16th, 2022·4min readAs a community manager and leader, your job is both to build external community and to build internal community - a legion of stakeholders who understand that supporting...How to scale your community: A content collection
May 10th, 2022·4min readTo continue reaching the right folks, finding and welcoming new, and more, voices and experiences in conversations, and demonstrating the impact of the community on their business,...Prove community ROI: Scale your community's impact and empower the business
May 5th, 2022·4min readActivate and scale your community impact: Josh Grose, Common Room's Head of Growth, highlighted a few examples from customers who use Common Room...Uncommon Book Club 📚 Richard Millington and Build Your Community
May 4th, 2022·14min readThe Uncommon Book Club is a gathering place for community builders to learn from community authors. Richard Millington joined us to discuss community-building...How to seed your community: A content collection
May 2nd, 2022·5min readHow do you seed your community? We’ve put together a collection of pieces to help you seed your community so you can scale its impact, empower your business, build products users love,...Uncommon Conversations: An Interview with Lenny Rachitsky, author of Lenny's Newsletter
Apr 21st, 2022·16min readLenny Rachitsky, creator and author of Lenny's Newsletter and the "Friends of Lenny's Newsletter" community, chatted with Common...Uncommon Book Club 📚 Carrie Melissa Jones and Building Brand Communities
Feb 22nd, 2022·18min readThe Uncommon Book Club is a gathering place for community builders to learn from community authors. We welcomed Carrie Melissa Jones to discuss some...How to Host Your Own Twitter Spaces Events: 3 Key Lessons
Feb 11th, 2022·8min readA step-by-step guide for bringing your community together on Twitter Spaces—including preparing, scheduling, promoting, recording, and downloading your Twitter Spaces...Uncommon Conversations: An Interview with Evan Hamilton, Community Manager at Reddit
Feb 7th, 2022·30min readEvan Hamilton, community director at Reddit and community consultant at large, sat down with Uncommon to share some of the ideas and...Uncommon Conversations: An Interview with Richard Millington, Founder at FeverBee
Jan 27th, 2022·24min readRichard Millington, community consultant, founder at FeverBee, and three-time author, talks with Common Room's Head of Community about...The Importance of Empathy
Dec 27th, 2021·8min readThe Head of Community at Common Room reflects on her conversations with community leaders across 2021 and what lessons they taught her about the importance of empathy.Uncommon Book Club 📚 David Spinks and The Business of Belonging
Nov 19th, 2021·13min readWelcome to the Uncommon Book Club - a gathering place to learn from community authors. For our inaugural event, David Spinks joined us to discuss his book, The...Uncommon Conversations: An Interview with Sandi Lin, Skilljar CEO and Co-Founder
Nov 16th, 2021·15min readSandi Lin, co-founder and CEO at Skilljar, talked with Uncommon about the importance of customer education. In her words, investing in...Uncommon Conversations: An Interview with Erica Kuhl, CEO & Strategic Community Consultant
Oct 27th, 2021·14min readCommunity consultant Erica Kuhl sat down for an Uncommon Conversation with the team at Common Room to talk about her depth...Gotta read 'em all: The Uncommon newsletter archive
Oct 1st, 2021·2min readWe've started the Uncommon newsletter archive so you can read, re-read, and share all of our past editions that highlight leaders, roles, and news in the community space.Uncommon Conversations: An Interview with Mary O'Carroll, CCO at Ironclad
Aug 20th, 2021·21min readMary O'Carroll, Chief Community Officer at Ironclad, sat down for an Uncommon Conversation to talk about building Ironclad's community V2, what it...Uncommon Conversations: An Interview with Ale Murray at Confluent
Jul 26th, 2021·16min readAle Murray is the Global Community Manager at Confluent. She sat down for an Uncommon Conversation with Rebecca Marshburn, Head of Community at Common Room, to...Why Community Comes First for Modern Companies—And Who's Leading It
Jul 26th, 2021·7min readCommunity-focused roles are growing and companies are earnestly looking for community leaders. Skills that lend themselves well to community roles—curiosity,...Uncommon Conversations: An Interview with Shahed Khan at Loom
Jul 25th, 2021·11min readShahed Khan, co-founder of Loom, discusses the importance of building with and for a product's user community from the very beginning, and how valuing community input...Choosing Slack: Our Top Priorities for Opening Uncommon's First Owned Community Channel
Jul 7th, 2021·11min readWhy we chose Slack as Uncommon's first owned community channel: 1. Common Room customers use it and like it, 2. It facilitates...Uncommon Conversations: An Interview with Joshua Zerkel at Asana
Jun 24th, 2021·11min readJoshua Zerkel, Head of Global Engagement Marketing (Community + Lifecycle) at Asana, talked with Uncommon about some key ideas for building community: The...Uncommon Conversations: An Interview with Jeff Barr at AWS
Jun 24th, 2021·10min readAsk a 20-year community builder and educational content creator like Jeff Barr, VP & Chief Evangelist at AWS, about lessons that are important to pass on and you get more...Uncommon Support: Community Inspired Giving
May 25th, 2021·2min readLed by Uncommon, the community-driven program for community-driven people, the Uncommon Support fund donates to nonprofit organizations and causes inspired by Uncommon Conversations they've...Customer Trust First: Common Room is SOC2 Compliant
Apr 15th, 2021·3min readWe're glad to share that as of April 15, 2021, Common Room is SOC2 compliant. For us at Common Room, earning and maintaining the foundational trust of our customers is the most...