Managing Communities, with Kat Meyer, Rosenfeld Media
Channel: BayCHI, San Francisco Bay Area ACM SIGCHI
Date: 2022-09-14

https://baychi.org/calendar/20220913/

Even before COVID-19 arrived on the scene, we recognized that communities of practice enjoy communicating among themselves via whatever media is available. These days even more professions and avocations are hosting these conversations on-line. For these conversations to be sustainable, there is a need for community moderators and managers. 

This month we'll have a conversation with Kat Meyer, who joined Rosenfeld Media's team as the director of cCommunities and events last February. 

Over the past several years, Rosenfeld Media (a publishing house specializing in UX--broadly defined) has added conferences as part of their offerings to highlight or introduce new and under-appreciated topics in UX and HCI. And the communities around those topics have grown as well. Thus the need for a director of communities and events. 

We want to learn what the role entails, how it relates to other similar roles (community manager, moderator), and to User Experience (as a field of study and a practice) and "user experience" (as the members of the communities feel it), and what it's like to join a community of communities already in progress. 

KAT MEYER is a professional idea scout and people connector, among other talents. With 20-plus years in the publishing and media industries in roles spanning community management, event curation, editorial, marketing, and publicity, Kat has made it her business to stay on top of emerging trends at the intersection of content, conferences, and community.

Formerly conference chair for Frankfurt International Book Fair and O'Reilly Media's Tools of Change Community, and events and community director for Publishers Weekly, Kat has additionally consulted with legacy media organizations and start-ups worldwide, building audience engagement and sharing knowledge through innovative and impactful experiences.