Panel slides on Building a Valuable Online Community
Panel topics include:
- Community building case studies from the panel – Mashable, Etsy, Mediabistro.com, Forrst.
- The essentials of online communities – why do certain communities thrive while most fail?
- How is online community building different from offline community building?
- Scaling a community to new cities and new countries.
- What are the critical product design and technology considerations for building an online community?
- How important is the founder in a community? How to make the community thrive independently of the founder’s participation
- Making a community into a business – how to profit from community without alienating members.
- Community building safety tips – what to avoid
- And much more…
Hosts:
- Graham Lawlor (@generationg), Founder of Ultra Light Startups
- David Carlos, Founder of David Carlos Managed Information Architects
Panelists (alphabetic order):
Kyle Bragger
Chris Maguire
Brett Petersel
Laurel Touby
- Kyle Bragger (@kylebragger), Founder and Lead Developer at Forrst
- Chris Maguire (@revolvingdork), Co-Founder at Etsy, Postling, and Waffl
- Brett Petersel (@brett), Co-founder at The Community Manager, formerly Audience Manager at Mashable
- Laurel Touby (@laureltouby), Founder of Mediabistro.com
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