The Conductor Cafe

Update: This program is currently on hold, but if you’d like to be included when it starts back up again, you can sign up here.

Hi! Welcome! This is a new thing.

I’m collecting online community workers.

And by that I mean online community creators, builders, moderators, and managers. People who create spaces online that others gather around, people who keep those spaces healthy, and people who want to learn how.

I’m not quite sure exactly what we’re going to do yet — it depends on who shows up. But for starters, we’re all gonna hang out on an email discussion list and get to know each other a bit.

Here’s my first draft of a set of Guidelines for this group.  Does it sound interesting to you?

We encourage...

• Sharing Job Leads (especially ones that come directly to this project)
• Asking for and sharing advice on community management situations
• Sharing resources specific to online community work

We discourage…

• Asking us to participate in or to help promote your project*. That gets annoying, so we consider it spam.
• Sharing or reposting anything said in the group with anyone outside of it, unless you have permission.

*With one exception: since this is a Culture Conductor community, we may treat you a little bit like an advisory board for the rest of our project sometimes.  Hope that’s okay. You can ignore that stuff if you want.

I want to limit this group to people who are already involved in community work, or are really interested in getting started in that field.  We get plenty of outsider perspectives on our roles all day long. What we need now is to talk to each other.

So, hi.  I’m Sarah.  Nice to meet you! What’s your name? What’s your relationship to this work? Are you just getting started? A long-time veteran?  Do you come from corporate communities, nonprofits, blogs, forums, self-organizing groups that use free tools?  Do you create communities from scratch, or maintain stability in ones that already exist? What draws you to this kind of work?  Tell me everything.

I can’t wait to meet you!

Update: This program is currently on hold, but if you’d like to be included when it starts back up again, you can sign up here.