http://gailwilliams.wordpress.com/2009/06/18/are-we-atribe/
Gail Williams asks about online community
managers and other related practitioners, and suggests ways to connect....

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Several weeks ago I met with
<http://redplasticmonkey.wordpress.com/about/>Bill
Johnston,
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randy_Farmer>Randy
Farmer and <http://www.identitywoman.net/>Kaliya
Hamlin in preparation forlast
week’s
<http://www.onlinecommunityreport.com/archives/508-Initial-Report-Back-from-the-\
Online-Community-Unconference-2009.html>Online
Community Unconference, dubbed #ocu2009 this time
around. I have loved the series of gatherings
convened by <http://www.forumone.com/>Forum One,
(and their powerful and practical affilated
group, the
<http://www.onlinecommunityreport.com/>Online
Community Research Network), and for me they have
always been a loose circle of respected social
tools designers, subversive online community
trend-steerers, researchers, and other online
community specialists and practitioners.
Randy posed the big questions. He used the term
“tribe”
<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6vpBDFoMqc>in
the sense Seth Godin uses it. Are we ­ the people
who attend and follow those events ­ a tribe? If
so, do we exist outside of those structures? What
do we need for our community of people who tend
to the many needs of online communities?


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