Marcie Walker is the Head of Community Engagement at Gatheround - a startup building a fun, new online events platform that makes virtual events actually fun. In this episode, Marcie shares all the lessons she has learnt in building herself a career in community building. Some things we talk about: 00:00 Teaser 04:50 How work in community is dependent more on what the community needs rather than your title 13:32 Virtual vs In-person events 16:59 What Marcie is working on now 23:21 How flywheel marketing can justify RoI on your community efforts 28:50 Routine Roulette 33:11 Getting the job at Gatheround by writing her own job description 46:08 Advice for 20 year olds 01:04:58 Resources for community building 01:06:50 One action item for listeners --- --- --- Links and Resources: Gatheround - https://gatheround.com/community Community Club - https://www.community.club/ Noele Flowers - https://www.linkedin.com/in/noeleflowers/ Sarah Greisdorf - https://www.linkedin.com/in/sarahgreisdorf/ --- --- --- Thanks for listening! If you have come this far you’ll love other episodes. But you probably don’t have 1 hr every week to listen to all the episodes. That’s why you should sign up for our newsletter. We recently started it to share the key insights from these conversations in a more digestible, readable format. So go to beginnermaps.com to sign up for our weekly newsletter.