Building communities with social media and interactive tools.

1. Building and Sustaining a(n)
(......) Community
Burt Lum
May 30, 2013
@bytemarks
bytemarks@gmail.com

2. Step 1
Framing the Mission
○ Open Data - Open Gov
○ Culture of Innovation
○ Collaboration
○ Data is the new commons
○ Gov as the stewards of data
○ APIs are the new enabler

3. Step 2
Establish your voice
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Attend meetups
Write articles
Do the morning shows
Get on the radio
Social media campaign

4. Step 3
Touch points
○ Know where your audience is.
○ Know how reach them.
○ Continue to engage with them.

5. Step 4
Interacting & followup
○ CityCamp
○ Hackathon
○ Writeathon
○ Hon*Celerator
○ Ignite STEM
○ Geeks on DaBus
○ Iconathon
○ National Day of Civic Hacking
○ Code Across America - My Honolulu

6. Step 5
Face to face

7. Step 6
Incentives & Motivations
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Goal setting
Making a difference
Reputation
Status and affirmation
Group identification

8. Step 7
Sustaining the effort
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Plan for the long haul
Find your champions
Commit top-down support
Establish key stakeholders

9. Step 8
Refresh