Community Leadership Town Hall – Tulsa Techfest
October 6th, 2011 6 – 10 PM – OSU Room NH150
We had a great turnout at last years Town Hall and this year we are doing it again. There was a lot of great participation and discussion regarding common issues we all experience as community leaders. This is a great forum for getting input from other community leaders.
What is a Community Leadership Town Hall?
In many towns and cities across the country the town hall is the center of the community. The town hall is where the local governments keep offices, serves as the main base for the Mayor, and is where citizens of the community come to work with the official representatives to share issues, ideas, and solutions that can make their community better.
The Community Leadership Town Hall brings this concept to community leaders in your area. The evening will be filled with discussions about issues, ideas, and solutions regarding creating, maintaining, and growing user groups and technical communities. This will be a highly interactive night where everyone will have a chance to suggest a topic and voice their opinion.
Bring your questions, ideas, issues, and willingness to share to the Houston Community Leadership Town Hall.
This is a free event! Please join us.
Event Sponsors:
There was an awesome turnout for the Community Leadership Town Hall #3 during the Dallas Techfest. There were about 35 folks in attendance, which lead to a lively discussions on several very awesome questions from the user group leader community.
Some of the discussions lead to a list of sites that of were to interest so I wanted to make sure I made them available.
Finding User Groups:
Calling for Speakers:
Open Spaces Technology:
Thanks again to all who attended and to Improving Enterprises for the awesome space, and Component One for pizza from Dough Bros.
If you would be interested in having a Community Leadership Town Hall with your event please contact me.
Community Leadership Town Hall – Dallas TechFest 2011
August 12th, 2011 7 PM – 10 PM – Improving Enterprises– Jay Smith
In many towns and cities across the country the town hall is the center of the community. The town hall is where the local governments keep offices, serves as the main base for the Mayor, and is where citizens of the community come to work with the official representatives to share issues, ideas, and solutions that can make their community better.
The Community Leadership Town Hall brings this concept to community leaders in your area. The evening will be filled with discussions about issues, ideas, and solutions regarding creating, maintaining, and growing user groups and technical communities. This will be a highly interactive night where everyone will have a chance to suggest a topic and voice their opinion.
We will be providing light hors d’oeuvres and talking community so bring your questions, ideas, issues, and willingness to share and I’ll see you there.
I want to thank our sponsors for helping make this event possible:
Microsoft once again to promote National GiveCamp Weekend! The weekend of October 21-23, 2011 has been designated National GiveCamp Weekend. If you currently have a GiveCamp scheduled, you do not need to move it. However, if you can move it, Microsoft is putting together several partnerships to help ease some of the logistics for the National GiveCamp weekend so organizers and participants can focus on supporting non-profit organizations:
· Free Venue: national partnerships to provide venue space. Space is limited and available on a first come, first served basis – so sign up early! Send your request to usgcamp@microsoft.com.
· Food & Beverage sponsors: National sponsors to have signed up to have food and beverage service delivered to participating GiveCamp volunteers throughout the weekend.
· Promotion: Email templates and resources for your use in promoting to non-profits, as well as soliciting potential volunteers.
Microsoft will also put resources behind amplifying the impact of your GiveCamp to your community by helping create buzz to help draw volunteers and increase community awareness for the non-profits benefiting from GiveCamp.
GiveCamp is a great opportunity for people to work together, develop new friendships, and do something important for their community! Their goal is to see over 50 Give Camps held over the National GiveCamp weekend of 10/21 – 10/23.
Are you up to the challenge?
If you are interested in having a being part of the National GiveCamp Weekend here is what you need to do next.
Next Steps:
- If you are interested in organizing a GiveCamp send the following information to usgcamp@microsoft.com.
- Setup your GiveCamp site with the GiveCamp Starter Site available here: http://givecampstartersite.codeplex.com.
- For more information, visit http://givecamp.org.
I'm supporting a proposal to create a new Q&A website for anyone running or interested in running a user group or technical community to connect and discuss the business of running a user group or technical community..
It's built on the same software as stackoverflow.com, a hugely popular site where over seven million programmers help each other with difficult programming problems. On Stack Overflow the audience votes for the best answer, so the answer you want is usually right at the top, not on page five.
I'm hoping that a site for anyone running or interested in running a user group or technical community to connect and discuss the business of running a user group or technical community. would have the same kind of network effect and turn into an amazing resource.
The proposal process is going on here:
http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/24077/community?referrer=V_0YIWNES-TswlQtvIZIUg2
If you're interested in participating, go to that URL and click on the orange "Follow It!" button.
Thanks!