PAB2008 – Whitney Hoffman
Community: Why it’s the ONLY thing that matters presented by Whitney Hoffman at PAB2008
Whitney produces the LDpodcast.
We talk a lot about community in Social Media circles. Communities grow up organically around our individual interests; but how do you act as a catalyst to form community? How do we deal with the inevitable problems that arise in communities? We’ve all witnessed times when the community values are breached or sprained; how do we handle those situations when they occur? When someone tries to join a community, how do we make them feel at home?
This session is the perfect opportunity to discuss the development and navigation of communities as we start to face real-world problems in our cyber-worlds, including:
- When does a community get too big?
- When do you start your own community?
- When is a new community seen as competition and get treated as such by others?
- How do we define and sub-define our groups?
- Are communities, commodities? Can they be bought and sold? Should they?
Thank you very much to the PAB2008 partners and silver sponsors:
PAB2009 is taking place June 19-21, 2009 in Kingston, Ontario (Canada). For more information on the PAB conference, visit podcastersacrossborders.com.
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I listened to this episode on my way into work this morning and found it very interesting. I’ve been paying more attention to building community more lately. I liked Brogan’s point about making sure that others in the community are recognized as experts and how that takes away some of the burden of having a large community.
This talk was the best I saw, now I must say all I saw were good, but this one rocked.