Thank you to everyone who attended our
2022 User Group Leaders and Liaisons Meeting on February 24th. And a HUGE thank you to our speakers:
@Marius Ciortea,
@Tim Bonnemann,
@Janie Mann, and
@Richard Barber! For anyone that couldn't attend here is the
link to the recording of the call (password: cQq4#1$h) and the
link to the slides. We also have a great resource called the
IBM Community playbook which user groups leaders can use as a go-to guide for creating events in the community, blogs & SEO tips, discussions, libraries and more.
IBM Community user group leaders attended from all across the different IBM product areas and from around the world including the United States, UK, Asia, South Africa, Canada, Austria, and India:
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At 275K members, the IBM Community is THE place to interact with other IBM users and experts, ask and answer questions, and get to know each other. The core mission of the IBM Community is for people who use IBM solutions to
share,
learn, and
do more: Share your experiences,
learn from each other, and
do more with IBM products and solutions. With this mission - growing the community, bringing everyone together, and a continued focus on growing user groups is at the forefront.
We facilitated a great discussion around the biggest challenges that user group leaders faced in holding events (in person or virtual) and received some great feedback:
Below are some of our favorite resources for increasing virtual event engagement including:
- Mentimeter: Audience engagement platform for polling/wordcloud generation/icebreakers (shows live results)
- MURAL: Interactive brainstorming/attendee participation
- Wheel of Names: Free tool to spin the wheel and select a winner for giveaways/raffles
- Virtual photobooths (snapbar/simplebooth)
- Offer incentives (ex: raffle courses)
Please be sure to mark your calendars for some of the great events we have coming up across the community:
Thanks again to everyone who participated and I look forward to seeing you at the next meeting!