Next Event?
Kerry Finsand
out to our meeting last week at the Mellow Mushroom. Ann, Chuck and
David what are you twitter handles?
Let's do our next meeting on Wednesday January 1tth at 6pm in ne or se
pdx. I known one person told me that they can never make it on
Tuesday so let's try a Wednesday for fun. Will This work for
everyone. Location TBD.
Cheers
Kerry
Dawn Foster
Kerry
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John David Smith
Me, too. And I put it on my schedule.
So pending finalization of the date, I think a bit of prep on the topic part of our session would help. To brainstorm about “selling community to management” I think we have to have some idea of the business. Specifically some description of the business – like a business model that sketches out what’s important to the business and why. I’ve spent some time thinking about business models for communities, and I think that the business model canvas that Osterwalder developed could be useful in this case, too. Have a look:
http://learningalliances.net/category/business-models/
Here’s a piece that could be helpful: http://www.slideshare.net/techdude/business-model-generation
I’ve got a blank canvas in a couple of formats if that would help… Google Doc.
John
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Mark Dilley
Kerry Finsand
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Kerry Finsand
Our next meeting will be Wednesday January 11th, 2012 at 6pm. I hope
you all had a great holiday season. The meeting will be at the
Eastburn at 6pm. http://www.yelp.com/biz/eastburn-portland-2. We
will meet upstairs in the dining area and then perhaps we can head
down stairs for some skee bowling.
Topic:
John suggested a great topic: "Selling community to management." You
can see below some of John's ideas. Let's all come prepared with
thoughts on how we have personally sold our positions to management.
We will use Groupon as a starting conversation piece.
Thanks and let me know if you have any insight. Please RSVP too.
Cheers
Kerry
On Dec 14 2011, 9:48 pm, "John David Smith"
> Me, too. And I put it on my schedule.
>
> So pending finalization of the date, I think a bit of prep on the topic part
> of our session would help. To brainstorm about "selling community to
> management" I think we have to have some idea of the business. Specifically
> about business models for communities, and I think that the business model
> canvas that Osterwalder developed could be useful in this case, too. Have a
> look:
>
> http://learningalliances.net/category/business-models/
>
> Here's a piece that could be helpful:http://www.slideshare.net/techdude/business-model-generation
>
> Doc
> <https://docs.google.com/present/edit?id=0ARc9L4cBRyF9ZGRqZ20zdHZfMzU0...
> g5ZGs> .
> * Portland, Oregon, USAhttp://www.learningAlliances.net
> * Got ilk?
>
> From: online_communi...@googlegroups.com
> [mailto:online_communi...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Dawn
> Foster
> Sent: Wednesday, December 14, 2011 8:11 PM
> To: online_communi...@googlegroups.com
> Subject: Re: [CMs PDX] Next Event?
>
> I'm free on Wednesday, January 11 :)
>
> Dawn
>
>
> Thanks to Ann, Chuck, Don, Dawn, John David Smith and Lia for coming
> out to our meeting last week at the Mellow Mushroom. Ann, Chuck and
> David what are you twitter handles?
>
> Let's do our next meeting on Wednesday January 1tth at 6pm in ne or se
> pdx. I known one person told me that they can never make it on
> Tuesday so let's try a Wednesday for fun. Will This work for
> everyone. Location TBD.
>
> Cheers
>
> Kerry
>
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The Idea Goddess (Ann Marcus)
This clashes with the CHIFOO Meeting this month--that I am involved in. Normally CHIFOO is the first Wed. of the month...but because of the holidaze it has been delayed a week.
Thanks,
Ann
Ben Fowler
Ben
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Kerry Finsand
We will miss you at the meeting.
Cheers
Kerry
Kerry Finsand
Cheers
Kerry
Dawn Foster
Kerry Finsand
Dawn Foster
The Idea Goddess (Ann Marcus)
How was the meeting? What topics come up? Where there any big lightbulbs? How was the EastBurn experience?
Color me curious,
Ann :=_
Mark Dilley
How was the meeting? What topics come up? Where there any big lightbulbs? How was the EastBurn experience?
Color me curious,
Ann :=_
John David Smith
Eastburn was good, though a bit noisy for a focused conversation: it took a bit of effort to talk from one end of the table to another.
7 of us were there. Good folks – worthwhile conversation. Good meeting. A bit long on the intros, but, hey, getting to know what people are up to is important. What people actually DO when they are doing “community management” really is pretty diverse.
The discussion:
· Was not so much about picking which community would be relevant to a business (that was the assumption when I pitched the business model angle; thinking that the issue was whether “the community” would consist of suppliers, early adopting customers, volunteer labor, professional peers, partners of some sort, or whatever)
· We talked about assessing value: how you combine systematically gathered statistics (e.g., web server logs) with anecdotes and snippets that grab the imagination.
· It only takes a few home runs to survive for another cycle or two, but you have to keep proving the value again and again.
· There was more, but that’s what I remember from the top of my head.
Next time: talking about engagement. Same format in that one person will state the problem and everybody responds, first to that person, and then generally for discussion with each other.
NB: this email message is an example of stimulating engagement. J
John
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