Building, Dismantling, and Re-using Community Initiatives over Time

Portland

Jan 30, 2018, 8:00 – 9:00 PM

Building successful Community programs is a wonderful experience at the core of Community Management. But what happens when those programs inevitably decline? You won't want to miss this talk about the important community management steps of eliminating outdated initiatives, deconstructing your favorite successes, and rebuilding online communities from their foundations.

About this event

Building a successful Community program is a wonderful experience at the core of Community Management. What happens, however, when programs inevitably decline? This talk is about the equally important steps of eliminating outdated initiatives, deconstructing your favorite successes, and rebuilding from their foundations. Kara Sowles will take us through some  concrete examples from her 5 years at a single company, including: 

* a user group program growing from 5 groups to 70 worldwide (and what it looks like to scale back after all that growth),

* abandoning a series of 30/year one-day conferences, 

* remaking an online triage event into an online hack day, and more. 

We'll discuss the importance of having larger frameworks that you can plug programs into (and out of), and the experience of destroying your favorite programs to stay nimble. 

See you there!

Speaker

  • Kara Sowles

    Puppet

When

When

Tuesday, January 30, 2018
8:00 PM – 9:00 PM UTC

Connect Host

  • Luca Albertinazzi

    Bevy

    Head of CMX Connect program

Featured Attendees

  • Aaron Durand

    Kamp Grizzly

  • Kris Freedain

    AWS Elemental

  • Rebecca Alexander

    Allgo

  • Ben Fowler

    AWS Elemental

Partner

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