Passionate individuals and businesses both try to create successful Communities of Practice (CoPs) for myriad reasons, from honest desire to networking to a financially driven goal of sharpening worker skills. Why do some well-funded efforts fail while rag-tag startups succeed? In this session, hear the story of my struggles and successes to grow a networked community of architects that now stretches across the globe. There is no single formula to creating a successful community. But if you've got passion and take the time to really ask "Why?" your journey will start off on the right foot! Choose vision-driven techniques over old-school mechanics to jump-start new groups or resurrect ailing ones. You will walk away energized and ready to try a few of the techniques that worked, such as
