What makes effective community events?

From the CPsquare blog...

Image by LaDonna Coy and Susan Stewart

 CPsquare, SCoPE, and Online Community Enthusiasts are sponsoring a share fair on Thursday May 12 from 20:00 to 22:00 GMT about planning and running excellent online events for communities. (An event about designing events! How recursive!) It’s a great opportunity to share some of what we’ve learned about what works in our communities. Would you like to share?

The agenda and a launch pad to participate is here: http://meetingwords.com/VbOaSj0WHB. Here’s how the agenda stands at this moment:

• 1:00 p Introduction and welcome
• Event logistics review: balancing broadcast & interaction,
• Platform & technology components
• Fall-back positions
• 1:10 p Morning Fish bowl report-out (format & conclusions)
• 1:20 p Planning an online symposium to launch a community with Linda Blong, Connie Silva-Broussard, George Triest, and Percy Young.
• 1:40 p LaDonna Coy and Susan Stewart: increasing participation by diversifying tools (See the diagram on the right.)
• OCE Elluminate room (continued)
• 2:00 p #KMers chat report-out on excellent events http://www.kmers.org/chat
• 2:20 p Breakout # 2
• 2:40 p Breakout # 3
• CPsquare Elluminate room
• 2:00 p Breakout # 1
• 2:20 p Breakout # 2
• 2:40 p Breakout # 3

We’re also having a Twitter chat at 18:00 GMT on Thursday May 12 http://www.kmers.org/chat on “Effective online vents from a KMer perspective”