The fourth Wed. of the month is the free monthly gathering of online community managers, enthusiasts, and innovators to meet and discuss tools and strategies for building and managing effective communities.

For our September MeetUp, we are thrilled to have longtime online community expert, Randall Farmer, as our guest speaker. We'll also be joined by Bill Johnston, Head of Global Community... [read more]

The fourth Wed. of the month is the free monthly gathering of online community managers, enthusiasts, and innovators to meet and discuss tools and strategies for building and managing effective communities.

For our September MeetUp, we are thrilled to have longtime online community expert, Randall Farmer, as our guest speaker. We'll also be joined by Bill Johnston, Head of Global Community at Dell, who will be facilitating the event.

Randy will be speaking about managing reputation systems in online communities. His talk will lead into an informal discussion moderated by Bill. Come join us for an evening of online community strategy and in-person networking with fellow online community enthusiasts.

Follow the action on Twitter: hashtag: #octribe .

Participate virtually in the Nonprofit Commons in Second Life (slurl to location in Second Life): http://bit.ly/npcevent You can see a step-by-step guide for how to participate in Second Life.<http://npsl.wiki.techsoup.org/How+to+Participate+in+SL+Mixed+Reality+Event>

Join the San Francisco Online Community Report MeetUp group on Facebook

Speaker Bio: Randy Farmer consults on social media strategies and web reputation with online powerhouses from Answers.com to Zynga. He is co-author of Building Web Reputation Systems.<http://www.amazon.com/Building-Reputation-Systems-Randy-Farmer/dp/059615979X>

See his RSS feed <http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.run?_id=uFBjGaxj3BGyFfxDGsevXg&_render=rss> and LinkedIn profile<http://www.linkedin.com/in/frandallfarmer> for more information.

Facilitator Bio: Bill Johnston is the Head of Global Community at Dell. He's a seasoned online community and social media executive with over 10 years experience working with large scale communities.

Beverage Sponsor: Drinks generously donated by Hansen's Natural SF.