Community manager's breakfast club
Community manager's breakfast club
Notes from the first meetup on Wednesday 1 December 2021.
Notes from the first meetup on Wednesday 1 December 2021.
Today I held the first community manager's breakfast club. It was a hybrid virtual and in-person meet-up. 10 people attended with 7 virtual and 3 in-person. Jane O'Loughlin kindly ran the introductions whilst I collected in-person attendees from reception. We then filled an EasyRetro board with discussion topics and worked thru our way thru them, spending around 8 minutes on each one. The order of topics was:
Today I held the first community manager's breakfast club. It was a hybrid virtual and in-person meet-up. 10 people attended with 7 virtual and 3 in-person. Jane O'Loughlin kindly ran the introductions whilst I collected in-person attendees from reception. We then filled an EasyRetro board with discussion topics and worked thru our way thru them, spending around 8 minutes on each one. The order of topics was:
- Hybrid events hot tips?
- What is your community?
- What is the structure for community and community managers in your organisation?
- How do senior managers relate to your communities?
We didn't get chance to discuss:
We didn't get chance to discuss:
- How do you enable your community to engage asynchronously?
After the allotted time, a few of us stayed behind to think about the next meet-up. I made the following notes that need expanding:
After the allotted time, a few of us stayed behind to think about the next meet-up. I made the following notes that need expanding:
- Questionnaire to attendees
- Which platform would you like to use next?
- Fortnightly frequency (now monthly)
- Real-time tweeting of discussions
- Do a blog pst about topics / attendees (this!)
- Do some contracting at the start of the next session
- Experiment with different services / platforms
- circl.es
- Twitter business / community.