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Community Signal is a podcast for experienced online community professionals, including those working in audience engagement, association management, developer relations, moderation, trust and safety, and more. It's released every two weeks and hosted by industry veteran Patrick O'Keefe. This is a very community-focused program. There are plenty of social media and marketing podcasts out there. That's not what this is. Social media is a set of tools. Community is a strategy you apply to those tools. Marketing brings new customers. Community helps you keep them.
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Signup to Generate a PitchCommunity Signal is a podcast for experienced online community professionals, including those working in audience engagement, association management, developer relations, moderation, trust and safety, and more. It's released every two weeks and hosted by industry veteran Patrick O'Keefe. This is a very community-focused program. There are plenty of social media and marketing podcasts out there. That's not what this is.
Community Signal is hosted by Patrick O'Keefe. The show has published 100 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include "University of Zurich Researchers Conducted an AI Persuasion Experiment on Members of This Online Community, Without Consent" (4 August 2025, 36 minutes), "When Open Source Community Software is Bought by Private Equity" (24 June 2024, 41 minutes), and "When an Online Community Pro Retires" (22 January 2024, 57 minutes).
Community Signal publishes roughly every few months, with episodes averaging 40 minutes across 100 episodes.
Booking probability for Community Signal is 32%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Community Signal requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Community Signal's contact route on record: verified email.
The strongest fits for Community Signal are Business & Management Consulting. Community Signal has a business audience.
Patrick O'Keefe hosts Community Signal, a business podcast with 100 episodes published.
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<p>In March, the volunteer moderators of the Change My View subreddit learned that researchers at the University of Zurich had been covertly conducting an experiment on their community members. By injecting AI-generated...
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<p>When private equity buys online community platforms, who wins? What about if those platforms were built on open source software? Does the company continue to be a good citizen of the open source community that helped...
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<p>Rebecca Newton is a legend of the online community profession. After 30 years, she has retired. But what does it mean when we retire from this work?</p> <p>Her career began AOL in 1994, building communities and...
<p>Online community consultants aren't unlike consultants for any other area of work. Some are ethical, smart, and talented, and some aren't. Consultants also don't often make great guests for the show because they view...
<p>Bodies aren't moderated equally on the internet. Content moderation efforts, especially those at large, mainstream platforms, can suffer from policy-based bias that results in moderation centering a cisgender gaze...
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<p>Safeguarding is a term used in Ireland and the United Kingdom that covers efforts to protect the health, wellbeing, and human rights of people, especially children and those who are otherwise vulnerable.</p> <p>At...
<p>Employee resource groups (ERGs) can do a lot to create a greater sense of belonging at your organization. But the folks who volunteer to lead these groups may find themselves in need of help when it comes to...
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<p>As we celebrate Community Signal's 7th birthday, Patrick takes questions from Community Signal listeners and supporters in this first ever "Ask Patrick Anything" episode of the show.</p> <p>Questions include:</p> If...
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<p>Elon Musk's presence has loomed over Twitter since he announced plans to purchase the platform. And for these few weeks that he's been in charge, many concerns have proven to be justified. Musk laid off 3,700...
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<p>As Zendesk's customer base and product offerings have grown, so has its community. The Zendesk community started in 2008, under the support organization, as a space for people to ask and answer questions about using...
<p>Recently, community pro Danielle Maveal joined Community Signal to discuss her experiences reporting into the product organization at Burb. In this episode, we're getting the opposite perspective from product leader...
<p>If you're wondering how you can more actively foster safety and belonging for LGBTQ+ folks in your online community, there's precedent to learn and borrow from. In this episode of Community Signal, we're joined by...
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Which team or leader does your community organization report into? And which would you like it to? Community teams can be successful as independent pillars or as part of other verticals, like product, ops, or marketing...
<p>Do you manage an international community? How do you thoughtfully foster community across different continents, languages, and norms? Mercedes Oppon-Kusi, the community manager for Europe for the International Legal...
<p>WordPress, the popular open source CMS, powers a reported 43%+ of the web, including this site. It is backed by a global community of contributors who volunteer their time in all sorts of ways, from code to...
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<p>As the former director of community for HuffPost, where he led the management of an active, massive comment section, Tim McDonald has had a unique vantage point to the mass closure of news media comment sections...
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<p>What are the reasons why you would voluntarily end the interview process for a community role? If you give it some thought, you'll probably come up with some!</p> <p>Ryan Arsenault and Patrick share real stories from...
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<p>Is speaking one-on-one with your community members part of your community strategy? For Tosin Abari, when building paid professional communities, it's an integral part. His phone calls with community members provide...
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<p>Which community leaders helped you grow as a professional? Who in the industry do you study from or reference? On the last episode of Community Signal, our guest Mohamed Mohammed mentioned how his former manager, Joe...
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<p>This conversation with Mohamed Mohammed, a community manager and a PhD student studying deepfakes, is timely. Just last week, a deepfake emerged attempting to spread misinformation that the president of Ukraine...
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