Growing A Community P.3: Meeting Up And Organizing The So. Cal. Ste...

Growing A Community P.3

Earlier this month I was invited to help participate in organizing and growing the Japanese community, which you can read about here, Growing A Community In Japan and here, Japanese Community Account. Some of you may know I run @steemitbc along with @paulag, @boxcarblue and @eroche. I will admit it has been bumpy, but I've learned a lot about people, communities and Steemit.

I'm taking those lessons learned and helping to build the Southern California Steemit Community. Along with @derekrichardson and @csusbgeochem1 we have officially gotten the ball rolling. https://steemit.com/introduceyourself/@socalsteemit/introducing-the-so-cal-steemit-users-community-account

The 3 of us had the first So. Cal. Steemit meetup on Wednesday. @creationofcare and @mattlovell were also supposed to join, but unfortunately couldn't make it.

Since Southern California is such a big place we scheduled the meetup to occur at a centralized point about 45 min away from were all of us live, a Buffalo Wild Wings in Orange!

The agenda was simple, get the account set up, explain what is going on in Japan, how we should mirror that initiative and promote! However, since only 3 of us attended we held off on assigning responsibilities like event organizer, community leader, etc. until the next meetup in February. So if you are in Southern California, reading this and would like to get involved DO IT!

After we got the business out of the way we showed off some treasures each of us have collected form around So. Cal. I think Derek won though with his gold nugget collection from the local mountains!