Australian Community Managers' Roundtable: Canberra

The third Australian Community Managers' Roundtable will be taking place next week in our nation's capital. There are a few spots left and no extravagant $700 tickets to contend with. Maybe next event :P

Details
When: Friday 5 March
Time: 10:00am - 4:00pm
Where: Scarborough House, Woden ACT
RSVP: Join the Facebook group 'Australian Community Managers' where you'll find the event. Or track me down on twitter - @alisonmichalk.
Cost: free. Pay for own lunch - Belluci's 12:30pm. $18 lunch special. Nom nom.

Who is the event for?
The roundtables are designed for community practitioners, whether it be community managers or strategists. The event however focuses on the discrete issues pertaining to the day-to-day challenges of community management rather than broader issues (eg. social media marketing) as we feel these are better catered for by other events/conferences.

As usual we have a bunch of talent folk attending from companies such as Lonely Planet, Earth Hour, Disney, Optus, Community Engine, Channel 10, Fairfax Digital, Headshift and of course Gov 2.0 peoples.

What is discussed?
Discussion topics include serial pests/problems, monetising communities, metrics/ROI/reporting, internal communities, communities as customer support etc.

History of the roundtables & ACM group
The roundtables 'rove' with the aim of being inclusive to attendees around the country. The first was hosted in March '09 by the nerdily brilliant Venessa Paech, in Melbourne at the Lonely Planet (BBC) offices. The second was hosted in Sydney in June '09 by myself at the Fairfax Digital offices. Despite my attempts to 'hot potato' it to someone else, I have failed and organised the 3rd event with the help of Mr Craig Thomler :) Whilst we've all dreamt of hosting the 4th on Hayman Island, the confirmed destination is TBC. Takers?

The facebook group was started by Scott Drummond and myself, and recently migrated (or should I say regressed?) to a Google group, which we've found to be much more convenient. At least in part. There has been talk of the group formalising, which I strongly support. I think as a group of industry professionals, at the very forefront/trenches of community management, it would be great to lend our voice to issues ranging from #nocleanfeed to proposed cyber-bullying legislation.

I look forward to meeting some new faces, and as always the part-therapy like quality of the roundtable :)

If you know any Australian Community Managers' please spread the word.