21th Mar 2013 3rd Thursday monthlyTwitter: #londonwebMC: Nathan O’Hanlon

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How to Increase CommunityOnline

Nathan O’Hanlon - @nathanlon

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Community at London Web

• Inspired by Richard Millington’s “Buzzing Communities” book

• What is the best community you have in London?

• Is your best community offline, online or both?

Interactions

• Recent Mailing List Closures - Symfony• GitHub, Stack Overflow, Quora – is this the

replacement?• What makes people come back – emails?• Is online:

– Better– More convenient– Less interactive

Twitter / Facebook / LinkedIn profiles

• Many links are available from Meetup.com for each member

• Should we associate these with a QR code on the night?

• How do we avoid that overwhelming feeling?

Applications to Connect Us 1

• What applications can be written to help our meetup members connect?

• Dashboard of contacts from the month?• Lunch Meetup Organising – Location based• Hash Tag Polls?• Sharing Content? How?

Applications to Connect Us 2

• Location aware Lunch Checkins on Foursquare - http://www.londonwebmeetup.org/lunch

• Websites we like – Delicious feed, pinterest• Blog Roll• Twitter list, LinkedIn Group, Facebook Group• Commenting against videos on Vimeo• Groupme chat – maybe localised• Highlight and Sonar registration

Applications to Connect Us

• Grouping members based on interests• Other meetups we are attending – Lanyrd feed,

Plancast, • Skills Directory –

http://www.londonwebmeetup.org/skills• Web Quality bodies• Certifications directory• Localised group meetups connected with

Hangouts

Applications to Connect Us 3

• Transport Shares• Group buying at Conferences• Discount to group members on events• What else??

The Meetups

• The social time seems like it’s working• Content seems to draw people there• Need to be smarter about meeting the right people

on the night• Divide the group up into areas of:

– Marketing– Design– Development

• Will there be people coming to meet friends that they first met at the meetup?

Crowd Funding

• How do we fund the features we need?

• What about sponsors?

• Will people pay to use these tools?

• Do we just get volunteers:– With a set amount of time to deliver?

– With appropriate skill sets?

– Enough time to work on the idea

Collaborating on web projects

• What is the best platform for this?– Github?

• Do you need to meet to collaborate?– Skype– Facetime– Hangouts

• Skills: http://www.londonwebmeetup.org/skills

These Virtual Meetings

• Monthly• Finding speakers• Preparing ideas for:

– Collaboration– App Development– Community projects– Meetup venues– Member profiling

Questions