What: 

When: Thursday, September 29, 2011 @ 7PM

Where: OCSC Sailing School San Francisco Bay @ 1 Spinnaker Way, Berkeley, CA

How: sign up at www.meetup.com/clswest/events/30932411

• Organic vs Structured approach to community building, which works better? Is it better to let the community decide the structure and purpose of the community, or should a structure be built which fits the model of the kind of community that you envision working best?

Venue supplied by OCSC Sailing School  in the Berkeley Marina.

Due to virtually no activity on CLSWest Idea Board since May, this topic for the evening has been chosen.

* We will not be sailing for this event, but if interested in a team-building outing for your team, contact OCSC Sailing.

All,

Here are two topics we will start with:

• How do Online & Offline Communities Mix?  
• How to create a successful Power User Program?

You may continue to suggest topics, comment on topics, and vote on topics at the CLSWest Idea Board.

RSVP for the Meetup here: www.meetup.com/CLSWest/events/18299711

Thanks to Kenny Spade, Academic Developer Evangelist at Microsoft, for holding this event at Microsoft Corporation in Mountain View.

Thanks also to Layla Sabourian, organizer of "First Thursday Silicon Valley Online Community/Social Media", for co-hosting this event.

Kind Regards,
  Eric "erich13" Herberholz  Community Relations Specialist, Communications Adept, Social Media Strategist, Browser Freak, Disc Golfer

CLS West (Community Leadership Summit West) - San Francisco Bay Area

Main Community Components

• Google Group: groups.google.com/group/clswest
• Meetup: meetup.com/clswest

Additional components:

• Home: clswest.us
• Posterous: clswest.posterous.com
• Blogspot: clswest.blogspot.com
• LinkedIn:
  • www.linkedin.com/company/1737540
• Calendar / Schedule & Events
  • Calendar: html | ical | XML
  • Meetups: Upcoming | Past Meetups | 2011 clswest2011.eventbrite.com | 2010 clswest.eventbrite.com
• Contact Us:
  • Main Contact Address: info[at]clswest[dot]us
  • Ignite Contact Address: ignite[at]clswest[dot]us
  • Sponsorship Contact Address: sponsorship[at]clswest[dot]us
• Discussions / Google Group
  • groups.google.com/group/clswest
  • www.meetup.com/clswest/messages/boards
• Idea Board
  • A place to suggest and vote up Ideas for future meetups: CLSWest.uservoice.com
• Meetup Group
  • meetup.com/clswest
• Members
  • Google Group members: groups.google.com/forum/#!members/clswest
  • Meetup Group members: www.meetup.com/clswest/members
• Photos
  • From CLSWest2011
    • from Eric Herberholz picasaweb.google.com/erich13/Clswest2011
    • from Harold Shinsato www.flickr.com/photos/hajush/sets/72157625850755948/
    • from Mark Terranova picasaweb.google.com/tuxwingsgroup/CLS2011#
• Twitter:
  • twitter.com/CLSWest (@clswest)
  • hashtag for CLS West: #clswest
• Videos:
  • www.ustream.tv/recorded/12036354 - first part of Bill Johnston's "Community for the Long Haul" session
  • www.ustream.tv/recorded/12036402 - second part of Bill Johnston's "Community for the Long Haul" session
  • www.ustream.tv/recorded/12033098 - 20 minutes of the Lurker Activation session
• Wiki
  • tinyurl.com/clswest-wiki

See Also

• CLS - Community Leadership Summit:  www.communityleadershipsummit.com
  • Eventbrite: Portland 2011 event: cls11.eventbrite.com
  • Facebook Event: www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=196907063655463
  • Google Group groups.google.com/group/community-leadership-summit
  • Wiki communityleadershipsummit.wikia.com
  • old wiki: www.communityleadershipsummit.com/wiki/index.php/Main_Page

We continued the dialog at the bi-monthly kickoff meeting on April 28th, 2011 at Adobe Systems in San Francisco.  There was an engaging discussion held with a panel on "Why Online Community Metrics Suck: Numbers vs The Human Factor". Panelists were: Susan Tenby (Techsoup.org), Ryan Singer (Stanford Peace Innovation Lab), Scott Rutherford (UserVoice), Khris Loux (AboutEcho.com)

First off, I would like to thank our panelists for their contributions and for their support. There were lots of excellent questions & answers as well as passionate debate on both ends. Lots of people got involved. 

So, as was mentioned, we have created a CLSWest Idea Board, that will be used as a topic suggestion box. Here's the link to the CLSWest Idea Board: CLSWest.uservoice.com

I met with Dave Nielsen and we have seeded the Idea Board with some suggested topics. Please contribute your suggestions and vote up the ones that you like. You have up to 5 votes, to use at your discretion. 

Thanks to Evan Hamilton, Uservoice Community Manager, for this use of UserVoice. 

Stay tuned for the date, place and location of the next meet-up, being planned for June. The topic will be... well, we don't know yet =:-) ... 

So, please suggest and vote up topics ->CLSWest.uservoice.com 

If lose track of the above link, you can always refer back to the Community Leadership Summit West home page: CLSWest.jottit.com 

Kind Regards, 
Eric "erich13" Herberholz 

Participate in a moderated panel discussion of “Why Metrics Suck: Numbers vs The Human Factor”. Panelists will be: Susan Tenby (Techsoup.org), Ryan Singer (Stanford Peace Innovation Lab), Scott Rutherford (UserVoice), Khris Loux (Echo)

At the unconference we experienced meaningful dialogs on various subjects related to Online Community Management. Let's continue the dialog. This bi-monthly kickoff meeting will be a panel-lead discussion on online community metrics: Why Metrics Suck: Numbers vs The Human Factor.

We look forward to seeing you there.

Note, the plan is to rotate geograhically from San Francisco, South Bay, and East Bay, for subsequent bi-monthly meetings.

For those of you that missed Ignite CLS West, the videos of the talks are now available on our very own YouTube Channel. In order of delivery that night, we have:

(download)

Click here to download:

IMG_1883.MOV (5.3 MB)

It's morning in cls west. Hear the hustle and bustle of the community forming the schedule on the grid for 25+ sessions for a fun day ahead.