The document provides advice for organizing events such as meetups, concerts, and other activities. It suggests acting like a leader to get people involved, using social media and other outlets to promote events, being prepared for issues that come up, and knowing your audience to match the event to their interests and skill levels. The overall message is that organizing takes work but can be rewarding to see a community continue after you have helped start it.
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Understand how a responsive design process impacts team dynamics and workflow.
Learn how to encourage collaboration across departments and silos.
Find out how a responsive discovery can change a project (and why that’s okay).
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Responsive Discovery: The underpants of a great web project Steve Fisher
Responsive design and content can be daunting, especially within big systems. But don’t be afraid! This is your chance to find the humanity in your project: the emotional, political, cultural, and functional issues that make the difference.
Your discovery process can make or break your responsive project. Learn from our great successes—and horrible ideas that didn’t go quite as planned. Practical examples will show you what makes a discovery process work:
Understand how a responsive design process impacts team dynamics and workflow.
Learn how to encourage collaboration across departments and silos.
Find out how a responsive discovery can change a project (and why that’s okay).
Get cozy with your customers, stakeholders, and content authors. We are all allies in the fight to make the web a better place.
This talk details the innovative development of collaborative blogging at 2 different Maryland library systems, Cecil County Public Library and Enoch Pratt Free Library, and how blogging translated into better internal and external communications.
There are many definitions of blogging. As an assignment for college, I choose blogging as an informative speech topic. In this presentation, I choose 3 definitions I would use for what blogging is; a way to be heard, to be creative, and to network.
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Speaker notes included - so the slides don't look quite as nice, but you have a better idea of what I was saying!
If you prefer viewing a clean version without speaker notes visible, there's one here: http://www.slideshare.net/KaraSowles/pug-preso-open-west-version
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With Our Powers Combined: Social Media & CommunicationMa'ayan Plaut
On social media and communication throughout my life as a lens to talk about social media, communication, and digital identity development for students.
Presented at CrowdSource Summit (#hewebcrowd) on 10.17.14 in Portland, Oregon.
Fed up with the way our modern day world uses outdated techniques in the job world? I give you My ANTI-Resume Manifesto. It's like no resume you've ever seen before!
Hallo and Welcome! This is my not so common Social Media Resume - all you will find about me in Google and what you do not find in Google. All about what I am doing and why I am doing this. As a recruiter, sourcer - and animal rescuer. - Just the not-formal about me.
"Growing Your User Group" by Kara Sowles of Puppet Labs at OpenWest 2014 in Utah.
Speaker notes included - so the slides don't look quite as nice, but you have a better idea of what I was saying!
If you prefer viewing a clean version without speaker notes visible, there's one here: http://www.slideshare.net/KaraSowles/pug-preso-open-west-version
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Pearson used this Mini Rough Guide to launch our Jive community Neo in 2011. It can not be reproduced using the Rough Guide brand but the definitions used to describe the tool are generic.
4. But more importantly:
Meetups:
Organizer, Web414 in Milwaukee
Organizer, RubyMKE
Organizer of short-lived JavaScript Meetup in Milwaukee
Organizer, BarCamp Milwaukee (3 or 4 years now?)
Member, Milwaukee Makerspace (founded November
2010)
Founder of the "Mondays in Milwaukee" Ride
Creator of I Love Fuzz Fest (concert)
(September 3rd, 2011 in Milwaukee -- be there!)
13. How to organize "things"
Social engineering is your
friend here:
If you act like you're in
charge, people will listen
to you.
14. How to organize "things"
Say "Yes, and..." to
validate other people and
get them to do things for
you.
15. How to organize "things"
This does not mean that
you should lie to people!
16. How to organize "things"
Apologies to everyone
that now thinks I'm a jerk.
17. How to organize "things"
When you need things done,
you have two choices:
●Do it yourself.
●Delegate.
Remember that you don't have
to do everything yourself!
18. How to organize "things"
Get the word out.
Start with a web presence.
19. How to organize "things"
Suggestions:
●Facebook page
●Google Site (esp. for non-technical co-organizers.)
●Twitter account (hook it up to Facebook page.)
●Craigslist, maybe?
●Meetup.com
20. How to organize "things"
Depending on your
intended audience /
membership, a web
presence may not matter.
21. How to organize "things"
Cyclists weren't on Twitter
and Facebook the same
way that tech people are.
That's reality.
22. How to organize "things"
Technical meetups, on the
other hand, are a lot
easier to market on the
web.
23. How to organize "things"
I'll say it again:
Get the word out.
24. How to organize "things"
Go to other meetups and
events related to your
event. Post online.
Talk a lot. To everyone.
25. How to organize "things"
Have something to give
away that will remind
people of your thing.
Moo cards are great!
26. How to organize "things"
Convince people that it is
the greatest thing that will
ever happen, and if they
miss it they will regret it
for the rest of their life.
27. How to organize "things"
Also, if it is at all possible
they might get job leads at
your meetup, mention that
(mostly true at most tech
meetups.)
36. Organizing on the ground.
Don't get too drunk at
your event.
(This is a rookie mistake.)
37. Organizing on the ground.
This is really important
when, for example:
38. Organizing on the ground.
You need take apart a
huge PA system, in the
pitch dark, with a bunch of
drunk "volunteers" who
have never handled audio
equipment before.