The Online Community Unconference is scheduled for June 9th in Mountain View, CA. The Online Community Unconference is one of the largest online community events in the area and we expect 250-300 online community and social media professionals to attend with 50-60 collaborative sessions on timely social media and online community topics.
Current attendees include: Oracle, Jigsaw, Google, HP, Intel, iVillage, Autodesk, CafePress, Paypal, WiserEarth, Panasonic, LinkedIn, Microsoft, Linden Lab, Care2.com, NetApp, Flickr, Wells Fargo, Rosetta Stone, and many more! Go to the bottom of the registration page to view the entire list of attendee companies.
To register at the discounted admission rate of $195 ($250 after 5/26) please go here: http://ocu2010.eventbrite.com/
Last year’s Unconference was fantastic, and we expect this years to be even better. We had 220+ people in attendance in 2009, including: Microsoft, Autodesk, NetApp, Google, Yahoo!, Symantec, EcoTuesday, Cisco, GreatSchools.org, HP, Intel, Intuit, LinkedIn, Packard Foundation, Nokia, Walmart.com, REI, VMWare, TechSoup, and many more.
We also had an amazing list of sessions, including:
- Managing the Mob: What to do when things go wrong
- How to Manage Multiple Personalities & Relationships Online
- Social CRM : Mapping Social ID’s, Behavioral Targeting & Common Profiles
- What Metrics Should be Used to Measure Community Health
- Metrics for Measuring Community Health
- Using Other Social Media Networks to Build Your Community
- Recovery.gov Myth or Reality – How do we pay for virtual community outside of for profit?
- Using Community in Strategy Development
- How Does Online Community Help Local Businesses Generate Traffic
- Social Media Monitoring
- Identifying and Engaging with Online Influencers
- Big Community – Strategy Across Your Ecosystem
- Social Psychology 101 for Community Managers
- Social Capital – Community for Social Good – Your Stories/Valuation
- Communication Skills for Community Manager (How to effectively be an advocate for users and your company, to engineers, execs, etc…)
- If you Build it They Will Come…NOT! – Tools/Tips/Tricks to Grow a Community
- Online Community for Social Good/Change (Non Profits, Multiple Stakeholders)
- Empower Citizens to Solve Community Problems!
- What Makes Users Want to Participate in a Community? How do we Encourage Engagement?
- Super Tools for Super Users – Next Generation UI and Technology Brainstorm
- Mission Aligned Twittering
- Moving Beyond Metrics to ROI
- Changing Platforms & Vendors
- Community Driven Product Design – Collecting Feedback from your Community – Scale, Sustainable Fun
- Starting An Online Community
- Online Protests (like Amazonfail) – How they happen, How organizations respond
- Tools to Mobilize Your Community (as advocates)
- Sustainable Participation
You can see pictures from the 2009 Unconference here: ocu2009 on Flickr
OCU 2009 Wiki
The wiki is available if you would like to read the session notes:
http://www.socialtext.net/ocu2009
Register
Again, to register at the discounted admission rate of $195 ($250 after 5/26) please go here.
If you are charged with managing online communities or community strategy for your organization, this will be a valuable event for you. The agenda is participant driven, the networking is unmatched, and the content will be awesome.
We also have several sponsor opportunities open for this Unconference. If you are looking for a cost-effective way to reach west coast community and social media professionals, please contact Chloe Caviness about our sponsorship options.
