Communities for content professionals

The Content Marketing Institute's year-round Slack, tied to the Content Marketing World conference. Volunteer-hosted channels and a book club.

The best-known content marketing community, now a paid Pro membership. Strategy, hiring, freelance gigs and live Q&As for B2B and SaaS content folks.

An active Facebook group for marketers, writers and content professionals to swap advice and share work.

A not-for-profit association with events, awards, resources and networking for content marketers.

The Women in Content & Marketing Association: networking, workshops, awards and an event series for women in the field.

Dave Gerhardt's private B2B marketing community with a strong content function, peer-group calls and events.

A free Slack of 6,000+ B2B content and SEO marketers, attached to the TOFU newsletter.

An SEO training community and Slack from Matthew Barby, Ian Howells and Nick Eubanks, with a large video library.

Around 5,000 SEO and AI-search pros. A free tier plus an optional paid Campfire tier for deeper access.

One of the largest SEO and digital marketing Slacks, with AMAs, live events and a job board.

A 70,000-member Facebook group for data-driven SEO practitioners, run by Steven Kang.

An SEO, SEM and CRO community. The r/bigseo subreddit is the hub, with a Slack you join via an application form.

For freelance writers finding clients and scaling. A free Slack plus a paid All Access membership with workshops and templates.

A LinkedIn group of 55,000+ for freelance writers to share advice, support and networking.

A media and freelance community with rate transparency, gigs and a newsletter. Free Slack plus a paid newsletter tier.

A UK alliance for copywriters and content writers, with monthly webinars and the CopyCon conference.

One of the original Slacks for content strategists, UX writers and content designers, with 4,000+ members.

Content designers, strategists and UX writers, plus a job board, newsletter and an annual conference.

The content design conference and year-round community (Brain Traffic lineage), with free events and a paid conference.

A training community for UX writers and content designers, with courses, certification and a member network.

15,000+ documentarians: technical writers, developers, devrel and support, with conferences and local meetups.

A Discord community of technical writers and developer-content creators, run by the Hackmamba agency.

UK content marketers across in-house, freelance and agency, with workshops, expert Q&As and in-person meetups.

The US national association for freelance editors and writers, with a member directory, job list, courses and local chapters.

An AWAI-run US membership community for working and aspiring direct-response copywriters, with training, resources and networking.

The national membership association for editors across Canada, with regional branches running networking and professional development.

The Institute of Professional Editors, the editors' association for Australia and New Zealand, with seven regional branches.

A one-on-one mentor platform with a strong pool of content and SEO mentors, plus a member Slack.

The MarketingOps community for marketing operations pros, useful for content teams thinking about workflow and tooling.

A cohort-based course and community for building an online writing habit and audience.

A 130,000-member subreddit for content marketing strategy, tactics and tool questions.

A 200,000+ member subreddit for copywriters, from craft critique to finding clients.

A 195,000-member subreddit for freelance writers on rates, clients and the business of writing.

A large, active subreddit on the craft of writing, useful for anyone who writes for a living.

A 120,000-member subreddit for journalists and editorial writers on reporting and the industry.