Find people for your local boards who care about bringing your community together. Find board members with good contacts into your local executive and speaker bases. Find people to serve your chapter who feel good about contributing directly to their IT community's success. Then get out there and hold your events. It may be small at first, but by using the techniques I have been describing over the last few months you will see results.
Community building is a snowball effect.
Before you know it you will be wrestling with issues such as meeting room sizes and membership database maintenance. You'll be well on you way to making your AITP chapter an institution. Please share your thoughts and comments regarding this feature. Originally written for The Information Executive.