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
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
3. ...but how to create on? Wow that looks cool...
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.
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.
6. WHAT IS GDG? Open and volunteer geek community who create exciting projects and share experience about Google technology with passion.
7. WHAT IS GDG? Open and volunteer geek community who create exciting projects and share experience about Google technology with passion.
8. WHAT COMMUNITY IS NOT Company
9. WHAT COMMUNITY IS NOT Company Evangelizer
10. WHAT COMMUNITY IS NOT Company Evangelizer School / university
11. WHAT COMMUNITY IS NOT Company Evangelizer School / university General developer population
12. WHO BENEFITS? Organizers / community leaders Developers, users, students == attendees Sponsors / partners Local companies (the ecosystem) The “technology” Government
13. WHO BENEFITS? Organizers: • fun • organization skills • additional title to resume • status NOT MONEY !!!
14. WHO BENEFITS? Attendees: • knowledge, experience • new people / friends • company for discussions • swag / prizes • opportunity to be a speaker • project partners
15. TIPS • HRs is your best friends • Find friend groups • Use corporate inside mailing • Use mailing tools
16. Thanks for attention! Questions? Presentation will be available at: v.zasadnyy.com/slides/