The People Geekly Story

This article was updated on April 8, 2022.

For the past two years, we've faithfully published our newsletter, The People Geekly, to nearly 30,000 People Geeks. Each issue contains four curated articles - the best content from the Culture Amp blog, and interesting stories about people and culture from around the web. 

We'll share some of the history behind the People Geekly, how it's put together, and some of our favorite articles from years past. 

The history of The People Geekly

Bronwen Clune, previous Director of PR & Comms at Culture Amp, started the newsletter as a way to build better People Geeks. “We saw it as an important part of doing that and building up our community,” says Bronwen.

In the early days, a few members of the Marketing Team would all help summarize the chosen articles for the week. Now, as we grow and roles become more specialized, one person is dedicated to compiling content on a weekly basis. Senior Content Marketing Manager Kelly Luc is currently that person.

Alexis Crowell, who once did the job as a former Senior Content Marketing Manager at Culture Amp, reflects, "When I was working as an office manager at my previous job, I loved getting The People Geekly every week."

“Without scouring the internet all day, I’d get articles that I wanted to read about diversity and new data trends in HR delivered to my sacred inbox (I’m an inbox zero person). Reading these stories inspired me to attend more events with People Geeks, and eventually led to my role at Culture Amp. Now, as a Camper, I get to read and curate articles each week. It’s exciting to know that thousands of people will see this newsletter and get something useful out of it. I love that we have so much involvement in finding and discussing articles internally, and the response from our community is always great, which makes me happy, explains Alexis.

We launched an exciting new design in early 2018 and rebranded the People Geekly once more at the start of 2021.

How the People Geekly is curated

It's a company effort to find the best articles for The People Geekly, and we use Slack to share stories for consideration. Of the 500+ channels in our company Slack team, one is dedicated to the newsletter. As people see articles that would be of interest to our community, they post them to the newsletter channel.

In addition to the four stories, The People Geekly has news on upcoming events like webinars, community events, and conferences we're attending. 

Damon Klotz, Work Culture Evangelist, has this to say about the success of The People Geekly:

Bronwen adds, “I'd like to think it's been successful because we've managed to provide a great resource to the People Geek community we set out to serve. It's also something that everyone within Culture Amp can contribute to in finding great articles and sharing them internally. I'm proud of the way we all collaborate and contribute to it as a company.”