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Building Austin: Best Practices For Growing Our Community
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- Description:
- Austin community leaders are leveraging social networking to actively build Austin more than ever before. We'll bring several of Austin's cutting-edge community leaders, including NetImpactAustin (non-profits), Door64 (employment), Bootstrap Austin (entrepreneurs) together in dialouge to share how they are building the Austin community, and not just holding networking events.
- Questions
Answered: -
- What changed since last year? ("Why are specialized groups popping up, and what motivates them?")
- What are these community leaders doing differently?
- How does creating increasingly specialized groups play a part in building community? or "Does restricting (or filtering) membership build a better community?"
- How are these leaders building community, not just holding networking events?
- How are these leaders coordinating the community across different specialized groups?
- How do we leverage locality to provide deeper benefits?
- How do we leverage existing social networks to build our own? (this is a big one)
- How are we using self-organization to build the community?
- How to balance building a social organization that also has a market impact?
- What type of organization should be behind the community being built?
- Level:
- Intermediate
- Category:
- Community / Social Networks
- Type:
- Panel
- Event:
- SXSW Interactive 2009
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