{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Coworking Values Podcast","title":"Audience, Community, or Village? The Framework for Real Connection with Rose Radtke","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":1770,"description":"“Community is a really irritating word to me right now. We ask it to carry too much. Everything’s a community.”\nRose Radtke\nTired of running yourself into the ground?\nThen stop running alone.\nOn February 24th, the London Coworking Assembly presents Unreasonable Connection Goes Live!—a one-day working session for the people running London’s most vital neighbourhood spaces and the public sector allies working to help them thrive. It’s a day to share the load, find real solutions, and build a new playbook, together.\nRose Radtke is a brand strategist, writer, and community manager.\nShe positions herself as a “smart connector”—someone who finds the links between brand, community, and marketing.\nSix years deep in community building, she’s watched the word “community” stretch thinner each year.\nEverything became a community. Discord servers. Email lists. Substack comments. The word stopped meaning anything specific.\nRose makes a distinction that matters.\nAudience, community, and village are not the same thing.\nOne lets you lurk. One expects participation. One demands mutual care.\nBernie and Rose unpack the framework. They move from COVID’s online community boom to the messy reality of engineering community in coworking spaces.\nRose is watching 2026’s trends closely.\nCoworking spaces struggling to meet rent.\nPricing strategies getting flexible—day blocks, modular memberships.\nThe lines between workspace and third space blurring.\nPop-up markets in coworking spaces. Coworking desks in bookshops and gyms.\nAnd she’s asking a question that hospitality venues should be terrified of:\nWhy don’t they have community managers?\nThis episode is for operators tired of using “community” to mean everything and nothing.\nIt’s for anyone trying to work out whether they’re building an audience, a community, or a village—and what the difference actually means for the people who show up.\nTimeline Highlights\n[01:51] Rose describes herself: “I’m actually a bit of an octopus. I am a brand...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/WIBJeL0fXbpb8oNZHEtSu5qeC3870OdCYV3XNCIVY1M/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS8yZTBm/NGQ1N2YzYTcyNmE3/NTc2ZmU5NTBlYmNj/OTEwOC5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}