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Refresh 101: Kick-Start Your Local Web Community

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Organizer:

Jason Beaird, Refresh Columbia

Description:

Each year, thousands of people flock to conferences like SXSW to learn from, interact with, and be inspired by fellow web professionals. Cultivating a similar environment in your own hometown can be similarly rewarding. We'll explain how to kick-start your own community, and give tips to keep it running.

Questions Answered:

What are the benefits of a local web community?
What are user/refresh groups?
How do you start a user group?
How do you get people to show up?
How do you get sponsors for your group?
How do you get people to speak?
What size community will my city support?
How do you deal with user-group overlap?
How do you maintain interest in your group?
How do you organize a local conference?

Level:

Beginner

Category:

Community / Online Community, Education, Social Networking

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Panel

Event:

Interactive 2010

Jason Beaird is the Che Guevara of creating, organizing and maintaining small-market web-communities.

Thanks, Gray...I think. :) Despite having Refresh in the title, we'll also be talking about the other user groups here in Columbia, how we joined forces to put together http://convergesc.org last Summer, and providing tips on how to make the same model work in your city.

The panel will consist of:
Gene Crawford (@genecrawford)
Jay Barry (@petridisc)
Greg Lunn (@greglunn)
& myself (@jasongraphix)

Wrote a quick blog post with a little more background on this panel concept at http://jasongraphix.com/journal/refresh-sxsw-2010/

This is an awesome idea! Can I get a preview?

I think this is a great idea Jason. Our company has been pushing this direction for quite some time and it looks to be a reality soon. I would like to hear the panels insights with tips and best practices utilizing what is already out there yet making the experience unique to their area.

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