# Webinar: Love Your Community
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/webinar-love-your-community/351482
**Category:** Events
**Tags:** webinar
**Created:** [February 10, 2025, 3:30pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/webinar-love-your-community/351482 "2025-02-10T15:30:08Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
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### Author:  [@Danielle](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Danielle)
#### Post date: [February 10, 2025, 3:30pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/webinar-love-your-community/351482/1 "2025-02-10T15:30:08Z")
On 2025-02-13T05:00:00Z, members of our Customer Success Team hosted the _Love Your Community_ webinar, focusing on ways to show your members how much you care!
### Watch the Replay:
[ ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-Q5_qnfJKQ)
### Key Takeaways
### Four Ways to Show Love
Here are some highlights from the presentation. The replay goes in-depth with examples!
**Words of Recognition**
People thrive when they feel seen and appreciated! Here are some ways to make that happen in your community:
📣 Public shoutouts
💡 Member spotlights
🗯 Testimonials
📝 Personalized messages
**Tokens of Gratitude**
A well-timed gift—big or small—makes members feel valued and deepens their emotional connection to the community.
📣 Swag
💡 Digital Rewards
🗯 Exclusive Perks
📝 VIP Access (Early releases, etc.)
**Support Through Action**
Actions speak louder than words—going the extra mile for your community shows that their success and well-being truly matter.
📣 Proactive Support
💡 Helpful Resources
🗯 Taking Action Based on Community Feedback
📝 Supporting Causes Your Members Care About
**Time & Connection**
The best communities aren’t just about content; they’re about connection. Creating spaces for real-time engagement builds lasting relationships.
📣 Webinars
💡 “Ask Us Anything”
🗯 Interactive Live Events
📝 Office Hours
### Mentioned Resources
The Community category on Meta is your place for discussions about launching, building, growing, and managing a thriving community:
> **[Community Building](https://meta.discourse.org/c/community-building/65)**
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> For discussions about launching, building, growing and managing a thriving community.
> [@How to inspire visitors to make the first post?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-inspire-visitors-to-make-the-first-post/112336):
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> We have implemented single sign on for our new community and added a deep link inside one of our courses (we sell training) directly into a topic in the Discourse. A bunch of people “signed up” for Discourse (basically they don’t have to do anything) but nobody has done anything when they come to the page. How can I increase participation?
> [@Developing Discourse Themes & Theme Components](https://meta.discourse.org/t/beginners-guide-to-developing-discourse-themes/93648):
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> Discourse Themes and Theme Components can be used to customize the look, feel and functionality of Discourse’s frontend. This section of the developer guides aims to provide all the reference materials you need to develop simple themes for a single site, right up to complex open-source theme components. This introduction aims to provide a map of all the tools and APIs for theme development. If you prefer a step-by-step tutorial for theme development, jump straight to: Themes vs. Theme Compon…
> [@Reverse engineer the Discourse API](https://meta.discourse.org/t/reverse-engineer-the-discourse-api/20576):
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> Discourse is backed by a complete JSON api. Anything you can do on the site you can also do using the JSON api. The API is documented at [docs.discourse.org](https://docs.discourse.org). You can also use the [discourse\_api](https://github.com/discourse/discourse_api) Ruby gem as a client library. However, not every endpoint is documented. To determine how to do something with the JSON API here are some steps you can follow. Example: recategorize a topic. Go to a topic and start editing a category: Open Chrome dev tools, switch to the Network tab, select …
> [@Community Guide: Creating Content](https://meta.discourse.org/t/community-guide-creating-content/276273):
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> Community Content, long and short tails This guide will help you create content that attracts 10-100 times the content of your average community topic. Communities are fantastic at creating content. They excel in filling in the [long-tail](https://ahrefs.com/blog/long-tail-vs-short-tail-keywords/) of audience interest. Specific problem solving, weird questions, one-offs, temporary issues, etc. are what forums are built on. However, they tend to need some help with the [short- and medium-tail](https://ahrefs.com/blog/long-tail-vs-short-tail-keywords/). Well crafted, evergreen, curated pieces of content, interesting…
> **[Discourse Discover](https://discover.discourse.com/)**
>
> Discover your next favourite Discourse community.
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### Author:  [@Danielle](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Danielle)
#### Post date: [February 10, 2025, 9:20pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/webinar-love-your-community/351482/2 "2025-02-10T21:20:44Z")
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### Author:  [@gassim](https://meta.discourse.org/u/gassim)
#### Post date: [February 11, 2025, 5:43pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/webinar-love-your-community/351482/3 "2025-02-11T17:43:51Z")
Amazing! Thanks! Looking forward to the webinar. 👍
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### Author:  [@NiceOldGuy](https://meta.discourse.org/u/NiceOldGuy)
#### Post date: [February 12, 2025, 6:23pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/webinar-love-your-community/351482/4 "2025-02-12T18:23:14Z")
Looks great! I registered but may have a conflict. Will the recording be available for later viewing if I can’t make it?
Thanks!
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### Author:  [@Danielle](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Danielle)
#### Post date: [February 12, 2025, 6:29pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/webinar-love-your-community/351482/5 "2025-02-12T18:29:49Z")
Absolutely! We will post the replay here within a week of the live event.
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### Author:  [@Aimee](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Aimee)
#### Post date: [February 13, 2025, 6:49pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/webinar-love-your-community/351482/6 "2025-02-13T18:49:27Z")
That was so good! I really enjoyed the webinar and learned so much.
BTW, it was so clever to add the theme of the Love languages in anticipation of Valentines Day! 😍
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### Author:  [@gassim](https://meta.discourse.org/u/gassim)
#### Post date: [February 16, 2025, 8:11pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/webinar-love-your-community/351482/7 "2025-02-16T20:11:54Z")
> [@Danielle](#):
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> Absolutely! We will post the replay here within a week of the live event.
Great, thank you! I’d like to list a number of action points from the webinar so I’m looking forward for the recording. Thank you! 👏
> [@Aimee](#):
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> BTW, it was so clever to add the theme of the Love languages in anticipation of Valentines Day! 😍
I agree. I think the theme is really crucial because it emphasizes the human connection in the community which I think is relevant in the time of AIs. 😸
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### Author:  [@Danielle](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Danielle)
#### Post date: [February 26, 2025, 7:32pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/webinar-love-your-community/351482/8 "2025-02-26T19:32:30Z")
Replay and recap posted in the OP!