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So I was out of the country on various business trips for the past 3 months. Fun, tiring, informative, and cool.

But now it’s time to get back into my Chicago networking circles again. I thought I would share some of the events I want to go to (or at least try to). Please let me know if you want to go with me to any of them. Always nice to not walk into a room of strangers alone.

11/29 - Mashable Meetup, Fulton Lounge
12/1 - StarShaped Press Open House
12/6 - MediaBistro Holiday Party
12/6 - KEXP’s Equalizer
12/6 - CIMA holiday Party
12/7 - our holiday party
12/8-9 - Bucktown Holiday Arts Fest
12/11 - I-Go Holiday Party
12/18 - Type A Meetup

Wish me luck on getting to any/all of them, as there are also many friends and family holiday parties littered throughout this time as well.

Also, let me know about any other Chicago events. I am always up for meeting more Chicago peeps in or adjacent to my industry.

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I have been traveling internationally for months now and very much so the past few weeks and therefore have been very busy.  I have been writing volumes (or facsimiles for volumes) on my personal blog the past couple weeks, but haven’t been transcribing my professional observations as much as I would like.  I promise to at least “try” to do so on my flights tomorrow.

But for those of you interested, here is my personal blog:
http:/jopod.tumblr.com

Promise to reenter this prof blog world asap.

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Lord knows I will be able to this month and next. And I am not complaining, far from it. I have always wanted to travel, both professionally and personally. Whoa, am I getting my wish now.

So, I wanted to put my travel schedule up so that if any of you were in any of the towns when I am there we can grab a coffee or beer (or any other beverage you like). I love company and if it keeps me from watching the local news in my hotel room - even better!

London - 9/16-9/24
- Various meetings

NYC - 9/26-9/30
- Tween Mashup, co-paneling with Erin Reilly

SF/Bay Area - 10/3-10/11
- Online Community Summit in Sonoma
- Virtual Worlds 2007 in San Jose

Shanghai - 10/31-11/5 (? actual dates)
- various meetings

If you are in any of those places (or within rental car driving distance) let me know! (joipodgorny at gmail.com)

And because I am a google apps fangirl lately, I made a google calendar with my “Joi is not in Chicago” schedule. I know, I know - but it’s handy for friends and family!

technorati tags:travel, shanghai, nyc, london, sanfrancisco, conference, mashup, ypulse, tween

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So I have been off the grid for a couple weeks now and am smack dab in the middle of a South American vacation.  So if I am not replying to your emails, SMSs, friend requests, tweets, pownces, in-network messages and other millenial means of communication, rest assured - I am not dead or wounded.  I am in Argentina, currently Salta, enjoying the cool weather, amazing mountains, delicious food and wonderful people that this counry has to offer.  Unfortunately, my Spanish has degraded this trip from lack of sleep (16 hour plane trips, 22 hour bus rides!) and I am thinking in French instead, but I am on a rather rigid tour and the tour guide is here with us at all times doing just that.  I plan to blog about the personal trip at http://joipod.tumblr.com.

Otherwise, I will be trying to pluck professional sorts of observations throughout the trip (to quote the wise Robin Johnson “You are always on”) and post them here.  I am back and blogging on 8/12 otherwise.

Take care!  Hasta!

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I was able to go to the Online Community Unconference in Mountain View this week and what a great day!  Saw so many old colleagues and made tons of great new contacts/friends.

Instead of posting long joi-speak notes from the event, I thought I would actually post a couple posts about the ideas it sparked over the next couple of days.  Plus, there is so much content on the wiki for the conference that I still have to go through.

But there were a couple of sessions that I had pure notes for - the session evangelizing your community and the session on using volunteers in your community.  So I thought I would post those here.

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Evangelism of your community

- Paid Ambassadors
- Internal and External promotion
- Need to set ground rules
- Presence at Conferences
- Qumana - nulk posting of posts
- Badges for other sites
- User forum for their ideas
    - make sure you ackowledge their contributions
- Street Teams - online and off
- Cool Psts Feed
- Celebrity Endorsement - for bands contact their manager, not publicist
- give away schwag
- embeddable content
    - widgets
    - feeds
    - games
    - videos
- have humility
- Tagging
    - have to make sure all using the same tag

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Managing volunteers in communitites

Certain areas are naturally higher touch and should not be run by volunteers
- U13 kids is a good example

Volunteers have limited access
- no access to user data
- yahoo groups has user database and emails them without them knowing email address

Make sure you have vaguer language with volunteers

Clearly defined project lengths are helpful

Talk of the need to have a more automated way to manage volunteers
- look at flickr - no management
- reputation based system may work
    - how do you ensure quality based reputaion rather than just quantity based
        - i.e. digg, slashdot - easily gamed
        - lithium has a good repuation system built

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