Community Leadership Summit West

We held the first annual West Coast Community Leadership Summit (CLS West) on January 9th, 2010, at DeVry University in Daly City. Experienced community leaders and organizers met that day to discuss, debate and explore the many avenues of building strong community in an open unconference setting. This group is used to announce future CLS West events. For example, we organize CLS West First Fridays occasionally. These are informal gatherings usually on the first Friday of the month for dinner and drinks at various locations in San Francisco proper, in the South Bay, and in the East Bay.

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November 10, 2011 at 7:00 PM, 4 Community Builders attended
Discuss use of social business software (community) for CLSWest
Who wants to try out using social business software (a.k.a internal community) for our CLSWest community? Members of CLSWest are being offered trials of Blogtronix and... Learn more
September 29, 2011 at 7:00 PM, 12 Community Builders attended
Organic vs Structured approach to community building, which works better?
They rated it 4.005 (5 ratings)

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Some interesting insights from physical community leaders. Small group this time, which made for a lively and candid discussion.

—Joanie Laurel

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Loved the conversations. Thanks to everyone for their participation!

—Eric Herberholz
June 2, 2011 at 7:00 PM, 23 Community Builders attended
How do Online & Offline Communities Mix? And How to create a successful Power...
They rated it 5.004 (4 ratings)

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The dialogue was high level and the questions posed for the meeting were each answered. ...

—Maryam Webster

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Wow! What a great group of people: kind, friendly, knowledgeable, and helpful. ...

—David Schweizer
April 28, 2011 at 7:00 PM, 45 Community Builders attended
Why Online Community Metrics Suck: Numbers vs The Human Factor
They rated it 4.503 (3 ratings)

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agree w/ Van a twitter fall would be great. thanks to the panelists, organizers & to Rachel for putting on a wonderful evening.

—Robert Schwentker

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I thought we had a great discussion both in the room and on the back channel on twitter. ...

—Michael "Van" Riper
January 15, 2011 at 7:00 PM, 60 Community Builders attended
Community Dinner
They rated it 5.006 (6 ratings)

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Was that a 5-Star event, or might we be short a few stars for how well it all turned out? ...

—AZ (Abbas) Zaidi

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great food, great drinks, great people

—Jenna Langer

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Feb 2

How Social Media and Online communities are changing vacation planning!
Thursday 7:00 PM at Silicon Valley Cloud Center

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Eric Herberholz commented on How Social Media and Online communities are changing vacation planning!
January 26 at 3:28 PM

"What do you want? Use the Idea Board to suggest & vote for topics for our meetups http://clswest.uservoice.com/ #cmgrmeal #octribe"

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January 24 at 11:20 PM

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Feb 2

How Social Media and Online communities are changing vacation planning!
Thursday 7:00 PM at Silicon Valley Cloud Center
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Eric Herberholz commented on CLSWest 2012 Unconference
January 24 at 1:03 PM

"Our next co-hosted meetup is http://www.meetup.com/First-Thursday-Silicon-Valley/events/47297112/"

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Eric Herberholz started Who's seen the new CLSWest Google+ page?
January 22 at 7:56 PM

"the #CLSWest Google+ page http://bit.ly/xT71rg..."

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Elissa Perry joined
January 17 at 10:56 PM

"I help people and organizations with a social mission get better at what they do. For 15+ years 1 have worked as staff, consultant and coach with several individuals, organizations and initiatives in the areas of leadership, education and the arts."
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Bob Ketner joined
January 15 at 2:00 PM

"Very excited to see CLS on Meetup!"
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January 14 at 10:11 AM

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