Community Signal

About Community Signal

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.

Publisher

Patrick O'Keefe

Category

business · education

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

10 Sept 2018

Latest episode

4 Aug 2025

Latest episodes

101 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   4 Aug 2025

   University of Zurich Researchers Conducted an AI Persuasion Experiment on Members of This Online Community, Without Consent

   Community moderator Logan MacGregor discusses an AI persuasion experiment conducted without consent on the Change My View subreddit, exploring the impact on online trust.

2. 

   24 Jun 2024

   When Open Source Community Software is Bought by Private Equity

   Host Patrick O'Keefe interviews Lincoln Russell, former Vanilla Forums Director of Engineering, about private equity's impact on open source community software and its users.

3. 

   22 Jan 2024

   When an Online Community Pro Retires

   Host [Host Name] interviews community legend Rebecca Newton about her 30-year career and insights gained from retiring from the online community profession.

Who has been a guest on Community Signal

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Lincoln Russell
• Rebecca Newton
• Jenny Weigle
• Vanity Brown
• Josh Poncil

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

Apple Podcasts (US)

4.8 / 5

17 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 56 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

92

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

51

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Guest appearances

Books guests

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