Mind Your Community Business – Mindtrek Panel Brainstorming
Thursday Oct 1st I will host the ‘Mind Your Community Business’ track and moderate the related panel at Mindtrek the leading Nordic digital media and business conference, focusing on social media & Web 2.0 (1-2 Oct. 2009 Tampere, Finland).
I’ll have a nice chat with Ignacio Correas (eBox), Peter Cheng (TargetSource Tech Ltd) and Jani Penttinen (XIHA Life). This post is an open discussion post for:
- Panelists
- Audience (that will attend or if simply interested on the topic)
FOR THE PANELISTS (Ignacio Correas, Peter Cheng, and Jani Penttinen):
Ignacio, Peter, Jani it would be great if you could:
- Give an insight of your presentations. Please share an excerpt below in the comments or friendfeed (links to additional blogs posts, presentations, material, etc. are welcome).
- Share below in the comments, via Twitter (@vascellari) or friendfeed, topics of discussion on which you feel more comfortable or on which you think you can bring a unique/valuable perspective related to ‘mind your community business’.
This will help:
- Me in better managing the panel.
- You (panelists) in having a better understanding of what we’ll talk about on our track/panel
- The Mindtrek audience to understand why they should come and join us during our track/panel.
FOR EVERYONE:
Tags: When submitting questions, suggestions or when you are simply joining the conversation please use the following tags
- #mycb (Mind Your Community Business – our track/panel)
- #mindtrek (Mindtrek – of course this is the event!)
SHARE HERE:
via comments, via Twitter (@vascellari) or via friendfeed (below)
- What would you like hear in the panel (what most interests you)
- Specific questions for the panelists
- Links to material & links that can add value to the panel
FAQ
“I’m not a friendfeed user. How can I send you my questions?”
Write them in the comments below or send them to me via Twitter (@vascellari).
“I’ll not come to mindtrek but I would like the panelists to answer my question”
It doesn’t matter if you will not participate live at the event. I will record the panel and I’ll release the video here on my blog so if you would like to see your questions answered, please share them in the comments below, via Twitter (@vascellari) using (remember to use the #mycb tag) or on friendfeed (below or here).
“Will you stream the event live?”
Not sure yet, I guess it will depend about how stable will be the connection at the venue. In any case you’ll be able to follow the live conversation on #mycb, #mindtrek, and via friendfeed.
Author: Andrea Vascellari
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UPDATE: This is a Twitter conversation that I recently had (8:26 PM Sep 10th) with Vehmas Assembly @vehmassembly
vehmassembly-> @vascellari
“mind your community” business sounds great.
- The concept sounds like social entrepreneurship and especially co-operative business embedded in the community
- What kind of tools needed to measure impact and how to spread the model to other communities?
- What against is the success measured: profits or positive impact on community involved?
Hi everyone,
just to introduce myself and the presentation I will give:
During my professional experience I have been able to see the interactions between business and community from different points of view: as the CEO and business development manager of Warp Networks (an open source based system integrator), as the president of CESLA and member of the board of ASOLIF (two open source business associations at regional and national level in Spain) and, specially, as the CEO and business development manager of eBox (a business based in the commercialization of its own open source product).
In my presentation I will summarize in 8 lessons the experience I have gathered, particularly focusing on why a startup should create and lead an open source community and how it should be done. I hope to bring some useful and valuable ideas.
Cheers,
Hi! I’m currently finishing the slides for my talk. I’ll be talking about the challenges (and the great opportunity!) with building a multi-cultural community. I have a lot of experience on how to do things and how NOT to do things from the past 3 years as I’ve been involved in building the XIHA Life community (http://www.xihalife.com)
We’ve had a great start and rapid growth but this year we have faces some tough challenges. This will be an excellent opportunity to give some advice so others can avoid some of these pitfalls!
Looking forward to meeting everyone at MindTrek!