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[June 12] Online community management: secrets of the trade
Join a panel of Vancouver’s most experienced community managers working in the online space for a discussion on building and sustaining a community.
- Why bother creating an online community? What value can it create?
- How do you sustain an online community and connect them to your mission?
- What are the secrets of transferring online action into offline action?
- Online community case studies and war stories
LOCATION
W2 Media Cafe
111 W Hastings, Vancouver, BC
DATE AND TIME
Tuesday, June 12, 2012
Doors at 5:30 PM
Starts at 6:00 PM
Wraps at 7:30 PM
Our panelists
Leah Gregg is a creative instigator and visual storyteller. Currently you’ll find her working in the wild world of advertising as Content and Community Manager at Rethink.
For the previous five years, she was on the Communications team at Union Gospel Mission where she broadcasted stories about love and redemption from the poorest postal code in Canada using social media and photography. Two highlights from her time at UGM include; co-founding PHOTO 101, a photography workshop for people working through alcohol and drug recovery and #HAWAction, an awareness campaign she managed for last year’s Homelessness Action Week.
If you were posting Leah to Instagram, you’d tag her with #Photog #Runner #ChocolateLover #BigFeet #BigHeart. She totally tumbles, tweets, and contributes to many other areas of the social web. You’ll find all those links here.
Theodora Lamb‘s passion for non-profit organizations led her to the web where she helps to strengthen online communities. She works with several organizations as an online community manager. Her background in radio and television allows her to bridge her passion for storytelling, media and the web and when she can, she loves to write about redheads on her blog, GingerAiling.com
Lima Al-Azzeh is the Community Manager for Eat St., where she has finally managed to incorporate her skills for communication with her lifelong pursuit of finding the best food the world has to offer. Previously, Lima served as the associate editor for Suite101.com and has been published in several print and online magazines.
Her website: http://ivancouverite.com/
My first blog post as the NetSquared Local community curator!
http://netsquared.org/blog/elijah/meet-eli-your-new-community-curator
My first blog post as the NetSquared Local community curator!
Who is Leah Gregg?
Leah is a panelist for the June 2012 Net Tuesday about the role of “Community Manager”. She’s also super talented and smart. Check out her bio!
Leah Gregg
@leahgregg
Leah is a creative instigator and visual storyteller. Currently you’ll find her working in the wild world of advertising as Content and Community Manager at Rethink.
For the previous five years, she was on the Communications team at Union Gospel Mission where she broadcasted stories about love and redemption from the poorest postal code in Canada using social media and photography. Two highlights from her time at UGM include; co-founding PHOTO 101, a photography workshop for people working through alcohol and drug recovery and #HAWAction, an awareness campaign she managed for last year’s Homelessness Action Week.
If you were posting Leah to Instagram, you’d tag her with #Photog #Runner #ChocolateLover #BigFeet #BigHeart. She totally tumbles, tweets, and contributes to many other areas of the social web. You’ll find all those links here.
Online community management: secrets of the trade
Online community management: secrets of the trade
Net Tuesday June 12 2012
Online community management: secrets of the trade
Net Tuesday June 12 2012
News!
Spring has spring and it’s time for a change.
I left the David Suzuki Foundation (after five years!) on May 10, 2012.
I have taken on a couple of short-term contracts while I decide what’s next. You can now find me consulting for:
- NetSquared, as a community curator supporting the Localproject.
- Rainforest Solutions Project, doing social media for the Take it Taller campaign
- David Suzuki Foundation, helping orient my replacement.
So much for my dreams of summer underemployment!
Eli at the NTEN’s NTC conference
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIf-dxgdKG8
I joined the NetSquared Global Leadership Council at the 2012 Nonprofit Technology Conference. Good times!
But I was ambushed by Vanessa Rhinesmith, who interviewed me and fellow meetup leader April Kyle.
I joined the NetSquared Global Leadership Council at the 2012 Nonprofit Technology Conference. Good times!
But I was ambushed by Vanessa Rhinesmith, who interviewed me and fellow meetup leader April Kyle.
This is what we are about…
This is what we are about: We plant seeds that one day will grow. We water seeds already planted, knowing that they hold future promise. We lay foundations that will need further development. We provide yeast that produces effects far beyond our capability.
We cannot do everything, and there is a sense of liberation in realizing that. This enables us to do something, and to do it very well. It may be incomplete, but it is a beginning.
We may never see the end results, but that is the difference between the master builder and the worker. We are workers, not master builders; ministers, not messiahs. We are prophets of a future not our own.
This is what we are about: We plant seeds that one day will grow. We water seeds already planted, knowing that they hold future promise. We lay foundations that will need further development. We provide yeast that produces effects far beyond our capability.
We cannot do everything, and there is a sense of liberation in realizing that. This enables us to do something, and to do it very well. It may be incomplete, but it is a beginning.
We may never see the end results, but that is the difference between the master builder and the worker. We are workers, not master builders; ministers, not messiahs. We are prophets of a future not our own.
Notes: Online tools for nonprofits speed date
The April 3 2012 Net Tuesday Vancouver was a “speed date” (think Pecha Kucha or Ignite format) which crowd-sourced practical tools and tips that can help nonprofits GET THINGS DONE. The event was organized by Darian Kovacs and the rest of the organizing team.
Stalwart social media volunteer Kelvin (KC) Claveria documented the event on Twitter using our #ntvan hashtag. I organized and bundled up the tweets using Storify. Enjoy.
Learn with the help of stick figures
Claire Kerr is knocking it out of the park these days with her hilarious slide decks.
If you get a chance to see her speak (she’s based out of Toronto and works for Artez) you should. You will laugh: the decks are funny because they’re true.
Also, she is a hat friend.
And here’s her Ignite presentation from the NTC 2012 conference.
I am particularly enamoured of “tedious data entry for social good”.