Secrets/Myths/Opportunities of Community Building: Maria Ogneva & Evan Hamilton

The Social Media Breakfast East Bay is back for its first breakfast of 2015. We have a great one for you.

First of all, Lithium Technologies is sponsoring the breakfast, so there's no cost to you. Just come, mingle, make new connections, get new ideas, and enjoy! However, space is limited so be sure to RSVP soon.

Second, we have two great speakers to help you create, build, and maintain an online community. Our speakers are...

Evan Hamilton

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Evan has been in community management for 7+ years. He currently runs the Community and Customer Loyalty department at ZOZI, which sells active lifestyle experience and gear. He previously worked at Flock and UserVoice. He organizes monthly Community Manager Breakfasts for community managers new and old. In his rare free time, he reads comic books and plays music as Kicking Tuesday.

Maria Ogneva

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As a community practitioner, Maria has dedicated her career to elevating business communities beyond tactical solutions. She helps organizations harness the power of communities of users, customers, employees and partners to fully transform their themselves and their industries. She believes that the future is networked, and the power of communities can start and sustain entire movements.

Currently Maria works as Head of Community at Sidecar, a community marketplace for people to give and get rides from their mobile phone. Her job is to help create the conditions where Sidecar's drivers and riders benefit from working together and with us as a company. Before Sidecar, sge built the Yammer global online community from the ground up, and worked at Salesforce as "Adoption Czar" helping companies ignite their own communities. Maria is a recovering MBA with years of traditional marketing and business development experience, You can follow her on Twitter at @themaria or on her blog, socialsilk.com (http://socialsilk.com/).

Lithium Technologies

Lithium Technologies -- the company that's covering the cost of this breakfast -- is an ideal sponsor for the topic of online communities. Lithium makes software that helps you better connect with your customers. Visit them at http://www.lithium.com .