Bootstrap Community

Bootstrap Community Subgroup
Wednesday, February 25, 6:30pm at Conjunctured, 1309 E. 7th Street
(Meeting the 4th Wednesday of Every Month)
Led by Jon Lebkowsky, Sherry Lowry, and Anna Carroll
Free

The Bootstrap Community Subgroup is for Bootstrappers who want to discuss best practices for instigating and managing communities that are relevant to their businesses, organizations, or affinities - and to hear what's worked for others. Don't miss our first official meeting February 25th. If you're not already a member, we have a Google Group at http://groups.google.com/group/bootstrap-community (where you'll find pages of notes Bijoy Goswami and I created as background for our community presentation).

This subgroup is about creating effective groups that have affinity, provide a context for ongoing relationships, and share history over time. Communities will form where people find common interest and venue. You don't necessarily create a community - rather, you build a platform for community and nurture it into being. In our talk about bootstrapping community, Bijoy and I have suggested how to evolve a community strategy based on principles we've learned building the Bootstrap Network: understanding the relevance of core energies (maven/relater/evangelist), developing protocols, using systems/technologies to support community interaction, and bootstrapping through stages of development. Aligning community development with Bootstrap methodology will be one focus of our discussions.

More information here: http://www.bootstrapaustin.org/wiki/index.php/Community_Subgroup