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Community manager London meetup – Wednesday 25 January

Wednesday, January 25, 2012, 7:00 PM

Selected By: Hannah Waldram

Crayon

Swallow Pl, London, GB W1B (map)

Selected by: Hannah Waldram

Our first event is here!

Thanks to all who attended our Christmas social and gave us lots of ideas and suggestions for how the meetups should run.

For the first event we've got Markham Nolan from Storyful (http://storyful.com/) coming to share some thoughts with us about community management in the year to come. Markham is a social media newsgatherer, sourcing and verifying news via social media using old journalism techniques alongside new tools. A core part of this is sizing up and building relationships with online sources and crowdsourced factchecking.

We'll then have a couple of pitch sessions à la Hacks/Hackers London and some space for anyone to share a story from their community and questions/debate. If you want to take part in any of these slots please email communityLDN@gmail.com.

The very lovely people at Crayon have very kindly offered up their cool space in the heart of Oxford Circus for us to meet up in so we're looking forward to trying out this new space with this new group. Please do say hello to @nathanmiller and the @crayonlondon team to thank them for the room and the Ribena! There are more details on how to get to Crayon and a map here: http://www.crayonlondon.com/contact/

Thanks also to Brett from CommunityManager.com for pointing out that Monday 23 January is #CMAD (community manager appreciation day). We hope the first cmLDN meetup of 2012 will be a great way to celebrate all work going on in London as a chance for those who work in the field to meet, share ideas and be inspired. But we won't actually be hosting an event on this day.

***UPDATE*** Crayon are not only letting us host the event in their space but will be providing pizza and fizzy pop for attendees. Yes it's free, just like the event. So please say a massive thanks to Nathan and the team when you come along.

Selected by: Hannah Waldram

Talk about this Meetup

Thanks to all at crayon for being such gracious hosts, Hannah and Laura for conjuring up the idea, @currybet for the writeup, and to all of you for your questions and warm welcome. Delighted to be part of it, and if anyone wants to get in touch, drop me a line at [masked].
Posted by Markham Nolan January 26 at 1:46 PM
Thanks to everyone who came last night. We'll post details of the next event on meetup in the next couple of weeks - hoping to run this monthly so watch this space. Martin's done a great write up of Markham's talk if you missed it: http://www.currybet.net/cbe... Remember to tag any videos or images
Posted by Hannah Waldram January 26 at 10:06 AM
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- Thanks all for the inspiration last night! It's great to read your recap Martin and I've been having fun already thinking about creating a picture of community manager Georgia. I remembered this visualisation of inside the mind of a community manager http://blog.getsatisfaction... and also this US research into the demographics of community managers http://socialfresh.com/comm... Do we need a Ms Community Manager picture instead of Mr?
  Posted by Tess Raine January 26 at 10:48 AM
- Tess thanks so much for these links, really interesting. If anyone else has any input into the makeup of a community manager please get in touch @Georgeous1 or [masked] I will be exploring a mr and mrs version or a hybrid of the two :-)
  Posted by Georgie January 26 at 1:42 PM
Thanks for arranging last night, and thanks to the folks at Crayon for hosting. I thoroughly enjoyed myself and look forward to the next one.
Posted by Richard Moynihan January 26 at 1:12 PM
Great to see everyone last night! Looking forward to the next :-)
Posted by Charlie Duff January 26 at 11:12 AM
Well done again for last night - it was great to see things up and running
Posted by Nick Petrie January 26 at 9:24 AM
Great fun - had to bail from pub in a hurry to rush home to ill baby (fine) nice meeting people.
Posted by Jules January 25 at 10:41 PM
I've also got to bail for unexpected reasons. Really sorry I won't be there - have a great evening!
Posted by Mary Hamilton January 25 at 7:00 PM
Bother! I'm bailing out cos of nasty germs. Hope to make the next one!
Posted by Sarah Bee January 25 at 5:56 PM
What's the address for this? the map link doesn't seem to work.
Posted by Richard Millington January 25 at 4:34 PM
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- I'm not sure you being the pub next door would be very useful if I'm lost :-)
  
  I'll try to come by a little early so we can grab a beer first. Just need to get something big done at the moment.
  Posted by Richard Millington January 25 at 5:22 PM
- What's the name of the pub by the way?
  Posted by Richard Millington January 25 at 5:22 PM
We have some supadoopa news. The guys at Crayon will very very kindly be providing pizza and fizzy pop to all cmLDN attendees at our first event.

We're ever so excited and glad we'll be suitably fed and watered while chatting about community goodness.

Please say a big thanks to the Crayon team on arrival. Looking forward to seeing you there!
Posted by Hannah Waldram January 12 at 5:35 PM
- Awesome!
  Posted by Charlie Duff January 23 at 2:54 PM
Looking forward to this immensely, folks. And as it's the first community managers meetup - I'd like to know what this particular community wants to hear about. What do you REALLY want to know about Storyful, and my role within it? Questions on a tweet to @storyfulmarkham, answers on the night....
Posted by Markham Nolan January 23 at 2:37 PM
Looking forward to this. Thanks for organising it.
Posted by Richard Moynihan January 19 at 6:31 PM
Sounds ace, good work Han. x
Posted by Ed Walker January 12 at 5:48 PM
Can't make this one unfortunately as I'm out of the country, will be at the next one if at all possible though. Will be great to meet other community professionals and talk shop!
Posted by Pete January 5 at 1:59 PM
Gutted I missed the pre-christmas getting started drinks. Can't wait for the first proper get together.
Posted by Nick Petrie January 5 at 1:03 PM