On Thursday March 24, at 10:30am Elijah van der Giessen @elijah and I facilitated this session.
The session’s hashtag is #16NTCCommbuild – you can follow up on it via Twitter:
Session Description:
Are you a community manager or builder? Let’s get together to share tips, gossip, and best practices. It doesn’t matter if your focus is online or offline — we have much to learn from each other.
This session is a facilitated discussion for community organizers, builders, and advocates. Attend this session to meet up with fellow community organizers and discuss the struggles, challenges, and rewards of community organizing. In this audience-focused session, we’ll discuss many of the challenges that community organizers face, including growing your community online and offline, the logistics of hosting events, creative formats for events, and more. Come prepared to discuss your successes and struggles with organizing your group!
Let’s use this opportunity to create a peer network and capacity around building communities.
Takeaways:
- Meet other community organizers
- Learn about innovative community organizing techniques
- Share ways to connect with other community organizers and organizer resources
Collaborative Notes can be found here
Thanks for sharing this recap and the collaborative notes, Birgit! Looks like your session was fun and informative!
Thank you for your kind words! Yes, it was a very informative discussion and very helpful for community managers to exchange ideas, processes and best practices. We also learn, what wasn’t yet successful! Thank you to NTEN for putting this session on the schedule of the Nonprofit Technology Conference!