What is community and how to manage it

Non technical presentation about community management.

Transcript

1. WHAT IS COMMUNITY AND
   HOW TO MANAGE IT
   Vitaliy Zasadnyy
   GDG DevFest Tbilisi, Oct 18-20
   

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2. WHAT IS COMMUNITY?
   Community is a group of people who are socially interdependent, who
   participate together in discussion and who share certain practices that
   both define community and are nurtured by it.
   Robert Bellah et al
   

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3. ...but how to create on?
   Wow that looks cool...
   

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4. WHAT IS GDG?
   New church for IT atheists.
   Community of developers and geeks.
   Group of evangelists who love to create.
   Group with addiction to Google.
   Fun and synergy, IT enthusiasm, sharing.
   It brings you passion and experience.
   Experience in new technologies and fun with new friends.
   

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5. WHAT IS GDG?
   New church for IT atheists.
   Community of developers and geeks.
   Group of evangelists who love to create.
   Group with addiction to Google.
   Fun and synergy, IT enthusiasm, sharing.
   It brings you passion and experience.
   Experience in new technologies and fun with new friends.
   

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6. WHAT IS GDG?
   Open and volunteer geek community who create
   exciting projects and share experience about Google
   technology with passion.
   

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7. WHAT IS GDG?
   Open and volunteer geek community who create
   exciting projects and share experience about Google
   technology with passion.
   

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8. WHAT COMMUNITY IS NOT
   Company
   

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9. WHAT COMMUNITY IS NOT
   Company
   Evangelizer
   

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10. WHAT COMMUNITY IS NOT
    Company
    Evangelizer
    School / university
    

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11. WHAT COMMUNITY IS NOT
    Company
    Evangelizer
    School / university
    General developer population
    

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12. WHO BENEFITS?
    Organizers / community leaders
    Developers, users, students == attendees
    Sponsors / partners
    Local companies (the ecosystem)
    The “technology”
    Government
    

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13. WHO BENEFITS?
    Organizers:
    ●
    fun
    ●
    organization skills
    ●
    additional title to resume
    ●
    status
    NOT MONEY !!!
    

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14. WHO BENEFITS?
    Attendees:
    ●
    knowledge, experience
    ●
    new people / friends
    ●
    company for discussions
    ●
    swag / prizes
    ●
    opportunity to be a speaker
    ●
    project partners
    

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15. TIPS
    ●
    HRs is your best friends
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    Find friend groups
    ●
    Use corporate inside mailing
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    Use mailing tools
    

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16. Thanks for attention!
    Questions?
    Presentation will be available at:
    v.zasadnyy.com/slides/
    

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