Online community management: secrets of the trade

Join a panel of Vancouver's most experienced community managers working in the online space for a discussion on building and sustaining a community.

Why bother creating an online community? What value can it create? How do you sustain an online community and connect them to your mission? What are the secrets of transferring online action into offline action? Online community case studies and war stories Learn more about our panelists (http://www.nettuesday.ca/2012/06/june-12-online-community-management-secrets-of-the-trade/) on the NetTuesday.ca blog.

Panelists

Theo Lamb
Leah Gregg
Lima Al-Azzeh

Lima Al-Azzeh is the Community Manager for Eat St., where she has finally managed to incorporate her skills for communication with her lifelong pursuit of finding the best food the world has to offer. Previously, Lima served as the associate editor for Suite101.com and has been published in several print and online magazines.

Theodora Lamb‘s passion for non-profit causes led her to work in social media where she helps to strengthen online communities. She works with several organizations including the BC Children's Hospital Foundation as an online community manager and with Mountain Equipment Co-op's TheBigWild.org on wilderness protection across Canada. She's also developed online communities for the BC Mental Health & Addictions Services, the Women’s Health and Research Institute and the Asia Pacific Foundation. Theodora's background in radio and television allows her to bridge her passion for storytelling, media and the web and when she can, she loves to write about redheads.

Leah Gregg is a creative instigator and visual storyteller. Currently you’ll find her working in the wild world of advertising as Content and Community Manager at Rethink.
For the previous five years, she was on the Communications team at Union Gospel Mission where she broadcasted stories about love and redemption from the poorest postal code in Canada using social media and photography.