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<title>Third Thursday -- Taking the Community Conversation Offline (Giovanni Rodriguez)</title>
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<description><![CDATA[<p>Why community?  That's the topic at <a href="http://publicrelations.meetup.com/79/events/4942553/">tonight's edition of Third Thursday</a>, a monthly Silicon Valley meet-up for PR and marketing professionals.  We're interviewing folks from SAP Labs, Linden Lab (Second Life) and Vyatta for a talk about why businesses are so keen on communities.  In short, it's a little thing called "wisdom of crowds" -- the increasingly well-known fact that when you have a freely organizing and sizeable community, all sorts of good things can happen.  In business terms, we're talking about things like staff autonomy, business efficiencies, and "open brands."  But building a community ain't easy.  We'll look at the challenges that businesses face when attempting to build online communities -- political, organizational, budgetary.  </p>

<p>There's one other thing we'll look at:  online communities may be the place where we're seeing lots of innovation, but offline communities are getting a second look.  In fact, we're seeing more and more interest in offline communities, and some of the innovative ideas from the online world are being replicated in the offline world.  I think Third Thursday is a good example of this.  For more than a year, many people in the PR world have been bumping, meeting and sometimes collaborating in the blogosphere.  Then one day, a few of us got together and decided to take the conversation offline.  And yes, we're experiencing some of the challenges that all groups face when building a community (political, organizational, and budgetary).  But we're already experiencing the benefits from the wisdom of the crowd that has been gathering each third Thursday at Fanny & Alexander in Palo Alto.  Hope to see you there.</p>]]></description>
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