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The Hubbub Community Gets a Wiki

As promised, last night (Dec. 1) we migrated the Hubbub Community -- a community for communicators -- onto a wiki, courtesy of client and partner Socialtext. This is phase-two of a three-phase process for creating our community. In the next few months, we will be using the wiki to enable the network to define what it wants. At the end of that process, we will launch a fully functional site -- including the wiki -- with some of the tools you have seen on other community sites, but specifically tailored for the communications professionals. If you are not already a member of the community, and would like to sign up, write to us at [email protected].

So, who can join the community? In short, the community is for anyone who works in the world of communications -- employers, marketing consultants, PR pros, social media mavens, writers, designers, videographers, software developers, many others. Our goal is to provide a friendly and functional environment for sharing job leads, market info, best practices. We've got bigger dreams -- for example, growing big enough to provide independents in the community with special services (like health care), and providing the community with the tools to organize itself to serve political, educational and social causes -- but will be acting on those dreams more slowly. For the core activities, it's time to get started, and the wiki will be our whiteboard. Join now and help us make it all happen.

The Hubbub Community Reaches 100-Member Mark

UPDATE: To join the Hubbub Community, send us a note at [email protected], or visit us at Yahoo! Groups

Well, the response to the news about our community -- the first open, global network of communication pros -- has been overwhelming. A few quick stats:

*we already have close to 100 people, from multiple disciplines, multiple geographies. And we haven't yet gone live. Very encouraging ....

*about 80 pecent of the community is comprised of independent consultants.

*about 15 percent is comprised of agency professionals, including several senior pros from very large agencies (pleasant surprise).

*who is in the community -- writers, designers, marketing consultants, UI consultants, PR pros, social media experts, videographers and producers. Several journalists have expressed interest (another pleasant surprise).

As we said a couple of weeks ago, the online community will go live this Winter on a custom-built platform. But because the community is already taking shape, we've decided to take a couple of interim steps:

*later this week, we will move the community to a listserv -- much like what craigslist did in the early days -- so that the community can immediately start sharing job leads, contract leads, and market info.

*on December 1, we will migrate the community to a public wiki, courtesy of Socialtext. It will be a nice temporary home -- just like the office space that Socialtext is providing HubbubPR, the agency -- for our community.