This will be presented live on BrightTALK & Google Hangouts. More info here http://www.londonwebmeetup.org

1. How to Increase Community
Online
Nathan O’Hanlon - @nathanlon
3rd Thursday monthly
MC: Nathan O’Hanlon Twitter: #londonweb
www.londonweb.org

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5. Community at London Web
• Inspired by Richard Millington’s “Buzzing
Communities” book
• What is the best community you have in
London?
• Is your best community offline, online or
both?

6. Interactions
• Recent Mailing List Closures - Symfony
• GitHub, Stack Overflow, Quora – is this the
replacement?
• What makes people come back – emails?
• Is online:
– Better
– More convenient
– Less interactive

7. Twitter / Facebook / LinkedIn
profiles
• Many links are available from Meetup.com for
each member
• Should we associate these with a QR code on
the night?
• How do we avoid that overwhelming feeling?

8. Applications to Connect Us 1
• What applications can be written to help our
meetup members connect?
• Dashboard of contacts from the month?
• Lunch MeetupOrganising – Location based
• Hash Tag Polls?
• Sharing Content? How?

9. Applications to Connect Us 2
• Location aware Lunch Checkins on Foursquare
- http://www.londonwebmeetup.org/lunch
• Websites we like – Delicious feed, pinterest
• Blog Roll
• Twitter list, LinkedIn Group, Facebook Group
• Commenting against videos on Vimeo
• Groupme chat – maybe localised
• Highlight and Sonar registration

10. Applications to Connect Us
• Grouping members based on interests
• Other meetups we are attending – Lanyrd feed,
Plancast,
• Skills Directory –
http://www.londonwebmeetup.org/skills
• Web Quality bodies
• Certifications directory
• Localised group meetups connected with
Hangouts

11. Applications to Connect Us 3
• Transport Shares
• Group buying at Conferences
• Discount to group members on events
• What else??

12. The Meetups
• The social time seems like it’s working
• Content seems to draw people there
• Need to be smarter about meeting the right
people on the night
• Divide the group up into areas of:
– Marketing
– Design
– Development
• Will there be people coming to meet friends that
they first met at the meetup?

13. Crowd Funding
• How do we fund the features we need?
• What about sponsors?
• Will people pay to use these tools?
• Do we just get volunteers:
– With a set amount of time to deliver?
– With appropriate skill sets?
– Enough time to work on the idea

14. Collaborating on web projects
• What is the best platform for this?
– Github?
• Do you need to meet to collaborate?
– Skype
– Facetime
– Hangouts
• Skills:
http://www.londonwebmeetup.org/skills

15. These Virtual Meetings
• Monthly
• Finding speakers
• Preparing ideas for:
– Collaboration
– App Development
– Community projects
– Meetup venues
– Member profiling

16. Questions