This Friday: 🍿 Popcorn Hour with Mia Quagliarello, our new "Get Together" podcast correspondent!

Mia is Flipboard's Director of Curation & Community and the Digital Community Manager for The Burning Man Project. She was also YouTube 's first community manager.

You may have noticed a new voice in our last episode of the Get Together podcast.

That new voice is Mia Quagliarello, our new Get Together correspondent!

You can listen to her full episode here and ask her about it more at our Friday Popcorn Hour (more info below).

Mia has had an incredible career. She was YouTube’s First Community Manager, joining the team in 2006, just a year after it launched, when the office was above a pizza shop in San Mateo, CA.

Today, Mia is the Director of Curation & Community Flipboard and the Digital Community Manager for the Burning Man Project.

I (Bailey) first met Mia fresh out of college. I cold emailed her asking for advice. Though I had no idea what I wanted from a career, just big dreams, she generously obliged me. I’ve never forgotten that. Now, years later, I am so excited to be building our podcast with her.

📅 Mark your Calendar

Have questions for Mia? Want to meet her? Now’s your chance!

This Friday, May 15th, we’ll introduce Mia to y’all through a live conversation on Substack’s discussion threads. You’ll receive an invitation to join us on Friday morning, and you can add the event to your calendar now here.

Leave your questions for Mia now in the comments👇 or by replying to this email.

Save the event to your calendar here.

🍿 Discussion Topics for Mia

Ask Mia on Friday about:

Ins & Outs of online curation. Mia’s one of the most thoughtful, impactful online curators that the internet’s seen so far. Her teams at YouTube and Flipboard were responsible for unearthing and spotlighting hidden gems from their communities that could role model what was possible on the platforms. How do you do that well?

The Burning Man community. Today, Mia is Burning Man Project's Digital Community Manager but she started as an attendee. She went to Burning Man for the first time in 2006 seven months pregnant, and it's been a part of her life in big and small ways ever since.

The early days at YouTube.YouTube is a once-in-a-generation product. Ten years after launch, they’re reporting ~1,300,000,000 users, which is an absolutely insane number. (More stats here.) What was Mia’s role was in all of that? What projects did she lead as a YouTube Community Manager? How did that work shape YouTube’s growth?

Why is Dirtybird Records so special? For Mia’s first podcast interview, she turned to Aundy Crenshaw is the COO/CMO/CFO of Dirtybird Records, a house music label with an incredible following. Friday’s your chance to ask Mia about what she learned from Aundy. How did Dirtybird cultivate a community that feels like a family, both within the label and with its fans, all with a small team and budget?

We are so excited. See you on Friday!

Onwards 🔥

Bailey, Kevin and Kai

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