On Launching the Web Community Forum

It’s been a hectic past week. Last week, my company circled the wagons and decided to pull the plug on an event that we’d been working relentlessly on for months. It was a tough decision, but ultimately an exciting one because we’re now launching a conference we’ve all wanted to do for some time:

The first meeting of the Web Community Forum this December will focus on Facebook: its strengths, its weaknesses and its applications as a tool for community building. We hope to come away with some tentative best practices to propose to the larger community for discussion, debate and thorough criticism.

I’m very excited to be involved with this event. The other day, Steve turned to me and said, “we’re actually doing it. We’re doing a Facebook conference!” and it finally sunk in for me that we were doing what we’d been discussing for months. It was a giddy moment.

I’m sad to say goodbye to the Blog Business Summit, at least for now. There were a lot of speakers and sessions that had me incredibly excited. I could use a lot of terribly cliché images to describe the relationship between endings and beginnings. But I’ll skip those platitudes. I’ve got a LOT of work to do.