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The San Francisco Online Community Report January Meetup

Jan 2008 23
Wed 7:00 PM
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Estimated attendance
 20  people attended.
4.00 4.009

Who organized?
Susan Tenby

Happy New Year to all you online community folks out there! We're back with our regular monthly MeetUps in the new year. To kick off 2008, our discussion will focus on using wikis as community building tools. We'll be joined by Adam Frey, one of the founders of Wikispaces, and Angelique (Angie) Shelton, the General Manager of Wikia's Gaming Network. So come join us for our first 2008 MeetUp to talk wikis and other online community tools. Look forward to seeing you all there.

About this month's guest speakers: Adam Frey is co-founder of Wikispaces, provider of the world's easiest to use wikis. Previously, Adam founded and managed the SourceForge business at VA Linux Systems. Adam holds a Bachelor of Science from Monash University and an MBA from Columbia Business School.

Angelique Shelton is the General Manager of Wikia's Gaming Network. Prior to joining Wikia, Angelique worked in Xbox division at Microsoft where she focused on International Expansion and Franchise Development. She has a B.A. in Finance from Louisiana State University and a MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business.

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  • Susan Tenby
    Posted Jan 17, 2008 1:43 PM
    Susan Tenby
    Organizer
    we have a community based wiki at http://npsl.wikispaces.com. This has evolved quite a bit and grown and morphed into a large community tool that needs to be gardened and kept up. Who has advice on managing a community wiki over time (when many original participants are no longer working on the project)?

Who attended?

  • 20 attendees
    • “ Very relaxed and welcome atmosphere. Easy to pose questions and get answers. I would have liked if the speakers had asked how many of us would like to see the basics of how to use a wiki as a contributor or lurker and if there was a bunch of us who wanted that, to do a 5 min. demo with the computer projector. ”
    • “ Not a significant feedback from me since I could only attend 1/2 the meeting. Great group of people and very efficient meeting I thought. ”
    • “ Wiki is cool. I am interested in other social networking/ workgroup software. ”
    • “ I am on the periphery of this world so I feel like a tourist in a foreign culture. (I'm 65 and didn't get on a computer till my late 30s.) The natives are friendly and well meaning and the forum seems to be useful and set up to be user friendly. I'm still trying to figure out whether I need to learn the new language to do my job. To my credit, I'm a master with styles in Word, not a hanging header to be found... ”
    • Stephane Delbecque (+1 guest)