Add an eventBuilding Community in a Blogger-Eat-Blogger World
A session at SXSW Interactive 2011
Among bloggers, competition for page views and followers can be fierce, and as more people jump in, it feels like we're all picking at the same slice of pie. How do you encourage bloggers in your online space to collaborate instead of compete, and better yet, how do you build an offline community whose members have real-life, meaningful relationships?
Learn from Austin food bloggers who have used tweet ups, taco tours, potlucks and blogger events to create an offline community of more than 400 members. By choosing to become friends over foes, the bloggers have been able to give back to their city through fundraisers and awareness campaigns, such as the Hunger Awareness Project where bloggers wrote about living off food stamps and food pantry donations for a week.
LEVEL: Beginner
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Austin American-Statesman food writer who blogs @relishaustin and @feministkitchen. A cook, gardener, mom, wife, chicken wrangler and @atxfoodblogs co-founder. bio from Twitter
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Hopeless book nerd. Haphazard blogger. bio from Twitter
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Gardening, writing, photographing, and designing in Austin bio from Twitter
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