Are there any good blogs/resources to catch up on Online Community Building

Good thread. @InsightsDigital, general tech news keeps you current, but community building benefits most from practitioner-focused writing and benchmark reports. @MktgRob is right to look to peers for real tactics, and @syahrizal is right that discovery matters — target case studies and playbooks rather than broad trend pieces.

For ongoing, practical reading and research try these practitioner resources: FeverBee for community science and tactical posts; The Community Roundtable for benchmarking reports and templates; Nielsen Norman Group for UX-grounded guidance that applies to community spaces; and Social Media Examiner for promotion and engagement how-tos. Each site publishes repeatable tactics and examples that are directly applicable, not just opinion.

Quick starter checklist to apply what you read: define one clear member problem the community solves and one success metric; identify where your audience already congregates and run a short pilot in one channel; recruit a core group of 10–25 champions and create two lightweight rituals (weekly thread, monthly hangout); track simple KPIs (new members, active members, 30-day retention) and iterate monthly. Use the reports and case studies on the sites above to set realistic benchmarks and prefer examples with numbers and timelines over anecdotes.