Are you having trouble providing value to your community members? Are they engaged? Do you understand what their needs are? Does your group struggle with getting speakers? Getting Sponsors? Do you or anyone really have time for any of this to do it right?
In addition to Thought Leaders which are in the CommunET network , CommunET provides a service to IT leaders which helps them with their personal brands - one of those services which includes speaking opportunities and being on Panels. CommunET is building a database which includes Speaker candidates and their areas of expertise. Wouldn't it be nice to discuss at your board/event committee meeting the many different options you could provide to your members instead of "starting from scratch". CommunET owners have been doing monthly webinars for years and in addition to this method, has an already existing large network of speakers who are ready to roll!
What are your members thinking? What are they interested in? What tools do they use?
Where would they like to meet - city or suburbs? Would they like more events or less? What is the best way to communicate with them? What social media outlets are they on? What things would you like to see posted? Do you blog? Would you like to blog? Would you like to be on a panel? What is your expertise?
You get the picture!
Need to find a sponsor for the next event. This is always stressful when you are on a board.
Don't worry about it - CommunET has a database of sponsors who are in the market looking to sponsor your event,.
The persistent set of near-term pressures for IT leaders means that searching for new innovations is always low on the priority list. Yet could there be anything more important? Traditional methods such as conferences, market research firms, web research, etc. to stay educated are suboptimal.
CommunET has partnered with Cresting Wave to provide monthly briefings (one hour) on new emerging technology that you should know about. Cresting Wave partner, Bill Murphy, as the former CTO of Blackstone, works tirelessly to find and vet high quality new solutions that you should know about. Technologies that he would give the green light on giving money to when working at Blackstone. These are provided at no cost.
Briefings would be chosen dependent upon who the audience is. There are amazing new technologies to help you cut costs, improve processes, increase revenue, keep you safe, etc. This is a no brainer way to add value to your community. And you don't even have to do anything!