Colleagues Jenny Ambrozek and Victoria Axelrod from the 21st Century Organization have teamed with the World Research Group to design a conference here in Boston, March 24-26: The Business of Community Networking. (You may also want to download the brochure.) This conference is focused on businesses that want to engage customers in interacting, networking, and exchanging knowledge using social media.
The speaker lineup illustrates a commitment to offer best practices — real nitty-gritty how-to information. I’ll be on a couple of panels and also delivering a talk on the process of community networking, with a focus on how the network lens (oops, no pun intended) can alter the perspective of community designers. I’m particularly happy to see Mark Bonchek (who also assisted in the conference design) on the agenda. Mark has been applying network (and net work) principles to his evolving businesses, currently incorporated as Soundbridge.
Early bird pricing is available until January 16th. You can save an additional $300 on the rate by entering the promotional code KKH735 when you register.
Patti, Thanks for sharing “The Business of Community Networking Conference”. No doubt organizer Meghan Jacobi has done a fabulous job assembling speakers focused on putting networks to work. And given your essential “Net Work” handbook the conference would be incomplete without you, and Mark Bonchek, given the deep experience and knowledge you both bring. I’m looking forward to actually convening a panel including you and other participants in our “Facebook Groups in Business Investigation” (FGIBI), given we conducted as a virtual network in the world. I suspect the most FGIBI contributors ever previously gathered in one room is 3. We should test that thought!
The question of networks has not only to do with business. For a work-in-progress using the idea of tracing networks in order to rebuild a political project, see also http://yannickrumpala.wordpress.com/category/networks-and-rhizomes/