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Community Building

• Community Building, Online Communities

  What Town Centers Can Teach You About Online Community Building

  08.01.07 | Permalink | 0 Comments

  This a map of the new Rockville Town Center. It’s about 10 minutes away from my home. Ever since its grand opening a few months ago, it has been booming with people and become its own little community here in Rockville, Maryland.

  Everything that you ever wanted to learn about online communities can be traced back [...]

• Community Building

  How About A Type-A Personality Social Meetup?

  07.16.07 | Permalink | 0 Comments

  On the Meetup.com homepage, it says that there are over 3,500 meetup topics. Just in my area alone, there are more 1,546 Meetup topics within a 50 mile radius. Such topics for a group include the mainstream such as a nightlife group, womens only group, and political affiliation groups.
  And then there are very eclectic and [...]

• Business Networking, Community Building

  You know it’s a good networking event, when…

  03.15.07 | Permalink | 0 Comments

  I had the chance to attend the Capital Cabal Networking Mixer last night. CapCabal is primarily for professionals who work in new media. Think marketing, PR, internet, web technology and the like.
  This was my first time but I was impressed with the crowd. I grew tired of the typical Chamber of Commerce scene where it’s [...]

• Community Building

  Seven Ways to Segment a Community.

  01.07.07 | Permalink | 0 Comments

  If you are looking to build an online or offline community, you can start by deciding who you want to serve. Don’t be a generalist and be everything to everybody. There is a big enough pie out there that you can serve a niche market and still be around a year from now.
  Based on my [...]

• Community Building, Remarkable People, The People Business

  The Dean’s List. My ultimate New Year Resolution

  01.02.07 | Permalink | 0 Comments

  I was thinking about some of the holiday well wishes that I got from various people over email recently. I had considered sending out holiday cards but I wanted to go for something more poignant, less time consuming, and just as heartfelt. And so I came up with The Dean’s List. Back in college, if [...]

• Community Building, other

  My itinerary for NYE 2006. More Community building.

  12.19.06 | Permalink | 0 Comments

  First, I’ll be arranging a dinner with a bunch of friends. Once we’re done feasting, we’ll be heading over to a friend’s home in Bethesda, Maryland for the Ultimate NYE Bash for 2006 [evite link]. It’s a party that is being co-sponsored by the Meetup 20s/30s group that I help co-organize on a monthly basis.
  I [...]

• Community Building, Online Communities

  Online communities; Know who your stakeholders are

  11.29.06 | Permalink | 0 Comments

  I’ve been moderating forums for the past couple years. Most of them have been successful ventures. But this would depend on how you define success? As of this writing, I run two different online forums at Xing.com- a social networking site for business professionals . I run a forum for Entrepreneurs and another for marketing [...]

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