This year is not completely broken. But, umm, WTF?
Welcome to Future Community in 2026. And welcome to the year of care, community, and a lot of working together. Let's go...
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10 Predictions for 2026
What we’ll learn about community, communications, and change in 2026.
State of storytelling in 2026
If you think this year has been a lot just wait for 2026. And new jobs, a conversation about trust, predictions and more.
What's the storytelling?
Why storytelling for nonprofits starts with connection, depth, and understanding. Not reach or scale.
The Good Comms Collaborative, Creators, and a story about Freud
Solve for community by focusing on the people first.
Recap. Rewind. Read These.
Things you missed, forgot about or didn't even need from Future Community in 2025
Start making sense
Independent journalists and creators are helping people make sense of the world. Is your organization doing the same?
A third system for the work we need now
We're outsourcing community thriving onto the backs of self-employed contractors and our systems aren't built for that. Not at all.
Let's go to camp
Can we really turn towards people and bring new people into our organizations, the work, and movements? Sure.
Automated meaning
Can we automate our way to community building and trust? Only if we center real human connection.
Google zero. Communications department zero.
Notion got rid of its communications department. Financial Times wants to go Google Zero. What's going on here?
Content strategy in a time of AI search panics
Ways of thinking about and being prepared for content strategy and SEO (and AEO and GEO and other EOs) in a time of AI.
99% percent of this sh*t doesn't make it into the news cycle
I have questions. Also, job search events and links. And AI resources and frameworks.
Angels and monsters and WalMart in your chatbots
On AI, community and imagination.