The Online Community Unconference is scheduled for June 10th in Mountain View, CA. The Online Community Unconference is one of the largest online community events in the area and we expect 300-400 online community and social media professionals to attend with 50-60 collaborative sessions on timely social media and online community topics.

Current attendees include: Google, NetApp, GreatSchools.org, Autodesk, Smarter Travel, Symantec, Intuit, LinkedIn, Gigya, Executive Networks, Twine.com, Care2.com, and others.

To register at the early bird rate of $145 ($195 after 5/13) please go here:
http://ocu2009-ocrb.eventbrite.com

Last year's Unconference East was fantastic, and we expect this years to be even better. We had 260+ people in attendance in 2008, including:
Intuit, Google, Yahoo!, Microsoft, Mentor Graphics, SunMicrosystems, Adobe Systems Inc., Walmart.com, Linden Lab, Flickr, AARP, Nokia, Autodesk, Cisco, CafePress, Cadence Design Systems, Sony Online Entertainment, O'Reilly Media, Inc., Consumer Reports, Digg, YouTube, LinkedIn, BabyCenter and many more.

We also had an amazing list of sessions, including:
-How do we motivate empowered users to participate positively
-Worst Case Scenarios - What to do when things go terribly wrong
-Internationalizing content & community
-Building the Collaboration Ecosystem - All components for community building success
-Community Management 101: How to get started in this big wide world
-Web 2.0 Components to build B2B Collaborative Communities
-Influencing the influencers and Product strategies to turn power users into evangelists
-Community Tools: Missing management features
-Non profit communities - dealing with $, more than petitions & donations, off Vs. on
-Community Migration & Pulling the plug - how/when/why?
-Managing Entitlement - wrangling with the elite & noisy

-Building Better Ratings & Ranking Systems
-Building Community in a support-based (Q&A) forum
-Community customer engagement through cycle marketing ->sales->support
-Social Networking Overload - Strategies for Managing it all, determining what give the most band for your buck, share tips & resources
-Currency Points & Incentives to increase engagement
-Context is king (presentation)
-Managing communities across multiple sites - Twitter, FB, MySpace, etc...
-Madmen & free speech - what to do with weak content
-Enterprise Communities: Responsibilities, Opportunities
-How to manage ROI and manage your management
-Community Year One - Phases, Activities, Successes

You can see pictures from the 2008 Unconference here:
http://www.flickr.com/search/?s=int&q=ocu2008&m=text

OCU 2008 Wiki
The wiki is available if you would like to read the session notes:
http://www.socialtext.net/ocu2008

Register
Again, to register at the early bird rate of $145 ($195 after 5/13) please go here:
http://ocu2009-ocrb.eventbrite.com

If you are charged with managing online communities or community strategy for your organization, this will be a fantastic 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 me about our sponsorship options.