A note to all Unconference 2009 participants!
We will be opening up the wiki for Public (read only) access on Friday, 6/19.

Event Information

Event: Online Community Unconference 2009
Date: Wednesday, June 10, 2009
Time: 8:00 am PT - 5:30 pm PT
Location: Computer History Museum, 1401 N. Shoreline Blvd., Mountain View, CA 94043 | MAP | WEB SITE
FAQ: Questions and Answers About the Event

Announcements

• Follow the real-time tweets from OCU at either http://twemes.com/ocu2009 or http://summize.com/search?q=ocu2009
• Attendees please add photos to Flickr, tagged with ocu2009. If you've got photos from the event, we'd love to see them.
• *Demos & Exchanges:*Please note that we will have a demo and exchange session right after lunch, from 1:15 to 2:30. This is your opportunity to showcase a recent project, upcoming launch or new technology. We will have a signup sheet at registration, or you can email Bill to reserve a slot. The format will be speed geek-style, meaning the presenters will remain at their respective table, and the "audience" will shift tables every 5 minutes.

Carpools

Need a ride to Mountain View? Can you give a ride to Mountain View? Please post on the Carpools page

Session Index

Schedule

8:00 - 8:30 Registration in Atrium (Continental Breakfast )

8:30 - 10:00 Introductions, & Agenda Creation

10:00 - 10:55 Session 1

11:00 - 11:55 Session 2

12:00 - 12:45 Lunch

12:45 - 1:30 Community Demo & Exchange

1:30 - 2:25 Session 3

2:30 - 3:00 Networking Break & Tasty Snacks

3:00 - 3:55 Session 4

4:00 - 4:55 Session 5

5:00 - 5:30 Wrap—up / Evening News

Session Ideas

Post ideas for session topics you would like to lead, or sessions you would like to participate in at the Unconference. Please note that posting here does not reserve a slot. We will be setting the Unconference agenda the morning of the event.

• How to use social APIs like Facebook Connect, MySpaceID, Sign in with Twitter and OpenID to build communities outside social networks.
• How to measure engagement on sites using social APIs.
• Online Community Metrics
• B2B Communities - What Works, Gaining Executive Support, Reaching Decision Makers
• Enterprise Communities: Opportunities and Responsibilities for organizations that want to host "their" part of the conversation
• The language of engineers and marketers, a discussion of communication skills the community manager needs
• Myths of the Online Community World - What we've learned in the past ten years
• The evolving role of Community Manager
• Ideas: Are they a first class citizen in your community? Why not?
• Lessons Learned: Pitfalls and Best Practices in Community-Building
• For Beginners: Laying a Solid Foundation for the Best Community
• Security: Best Practices for Community Moderation
• What to look for when hiring community staff
• Leveraging the "Wisdom of the Crowd" to Energize Your Community
• The Role of Online Facilitators and Champions in Community-Building
• The Importance of Building Collaborative Ecosystems for Community-Building
• Marketing your online community
• Best Practices for Inviting the "Right" Type of People Into the Community
• Building Community in a Support (Q&A) Forum
• What Defines Success in YOUR Community?
• Communities of Collaborative Development
• Engaging community members - how do you get people to participate and not just lurk
• Searching for a white-label community platform vendor
• How to sell community to marketers
• Ideas for making community engagement take off
• How to grow competitive communities
• Making a product roadmap for a young community: how do you pick what to do?
• How to grow leaders within a community
• How to deal with community trolls
• Balance between destination and distributed community
• Cross-organizations collaboration and tools to "grow together" vs compete
• What NOT to do in social media for social ventures: a question of focus & impact
• "Mission aligned Twittering" - balancing resource constraints and breaking silos
• The value of contests and voting versus issue fatigue and micro-spam
• Marketing your community through a network of social media platforms
• Why/When Are Communities Unsuccessful?
• Generals, Colonels & Community - Refactoring DoD Software Development
• How to garner executive buy-in for the community effort, and I mean budget and resources
• Life in the Twitterverse - Are we community members with multiple, distinct personas (e.g. work, personal, hobby, political, etc.) or are we now one unified public persona with all interests rolled into one?
• How to revivie a dying online community
• If not boards, then what? What is the future of online community development without use of discussion boards/forums?
• Community Participant vs. Community Customer: Are our most socially active members our most frequent retail consumers?
• Bored with Boards? Has the evolution of Facebook and Twitter sounded a death knell for the old school Message Board?
• Distributed Platforms, Distributed Community - Are we seeing the transition from centralized to distributed communities and what does that mean for "my" community?
• Communities within online publications: Challenges that are specific to building/maintaining communities on newspaper sites, magazine sites, and all-online publications.

People

• We will distribute an attendee list.
• Read about the People working on this Wiki, on the conference, registered as attendees, etc.
• To add your name to the people table below, use the vertical bar ( | ) character to mark cells. To create a linked profile page, add square brackets ( [ ] ) around your name, save this page, click on your linked name and start editing your new page. (NOTE: This needs to be done in the Advanced option to add the new cells.)

Travel and Accommodations

List of Hotels

Check our List of hotels and book your room as early as possible.

Comments / Questions

Am I missing something? There seem to be so few sessions actually reported on. Is someone holding on to the notes? If so, when will they be posted?

If this is all the notes we're going to get, I'm especially disappointed. In the sessions I attended, I found a high noise to value ratio. Many note takers didn't seem to understand the responsibilities of their job and for the most part if you were not physically present at a session, you can hardly tell what actually took place.

In my experience, much of the value of "open space" as a communication tool is derived from the session notes. For this reason, many event hosts emphasize the recorder role and even offer guidelines and/or a short briefing session about note taking to make the point about how important this activity is to creating overall value from the event.

So I was disappointed that I had to pay for the event but I got so little from it.

contributed by claude on Jun 11 11:32am