Hi guys! My name is Giovanni, and I am very excited to be part of this great community! I come from Matera but currently I am living in the United States. Thank you very much for this opportunity!
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Here we are! Hi everyone!
Sorry for joining the thread just a bit later. It’s Francesco here and I work in the Relations and Development area for Matera 2019! I am very happy to be part of the community building team and hope I can give a useful contribution to it!
A little bit about me, I am 26 year old and I graduated in Arts, Festivals and Cultural Management in Edinburgh a bit more than one year ago! I then came back to my hometown, Trani, where I founded UFFA a collective dealing with, civic engagement, urban regeneration and good practice for community building. Have a look at what we do and hope it can be inspiring for everyone!
(A representative pic of the urban regeneration festival we organized this summer)
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Hi guys! My inteoduction for later on! Right now i’ld like to take this opportunity to work on our offline community! Me and some girls from the conference are at area8 having a drink! Who’s gonna join us? Let’s not waste this chance to get to know each other and enjoy local wine!
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Judging from the photo, it must be a good party!
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Ciao a tutti! Good thing of being late is that some of you hopefully already know me!
I’m Anna, a Neapolitan (junior!) cultural project manager, I’ve studied abroad yet came back to Italy cause this is where I want to work and make a difference! My main driver is the strong conviction that we have a duty to increase accessibility to culture. And we have to do it through as many fields as possible in as many creative ways envisionable for as many people as possible! Sure that sharing views and methods about how to build a strong community is the way to start together!
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You look very fashion over there on the table
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Hello, my name is Mariateresa Cascino and I am a cultural operator. I am the cofounder of the Women’s Fiction Festival, a gathering of international writers and publishing professionals.
I am a marketing and communication specialist, a journalist, and I work as a freelance in the communication field both for the private and public sectors. I’ve worked in the Us and in Italy as a communication consultant and as a communication specialist for EU funds.
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Hello, my name is Vilte, I’m from Kaunas. You know, Kaunas the European Capital of Culture 2022 starts now! From now on we leave Kaunas as Temporary capital and start as CONTEMPORARY Capital!
By CONTEMPORARY we mean being CONnected with the rest of Europe, to be in CONtext and to create a new CONtent for our city, our country and Europe. KAUNect and stay in KAUNtact!
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Peppe. molto interessante il lavoro che fai tra sport e sanità!
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Here is the social network of this thread. Quite a bit clearer than yesterday’s string! An advantage of online platforms is they have perfect recall, and they allow us to think about our experience and how to learn from it.
In this case, almost everyone replied to @johncoate, but did not really talk to each other. This is not what you normally want in a community (can you guess why?), but it makes sense in a “introduce yourself” thread.
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Hello everyone, it was great to partecipate in this workshop. I hope that the future of all Capitals of Culture (to be) will build a network that goes beyond linguistics, politics and racials boundaries in the name of a common and shared Culture. 
Claudia
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Here, as promised, is a link to the “Online Community Toolkit” I offered in print form at the workshop.
And this links to the topic with the presentations.
Thanks again for a great weekend.
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Hi guys, many thanks again for these two beautiful days we spent together!
Yesterday, while my father was driving us back to Amantea, Calabria, I enjoyed reading “The Epic Saga of The Well”. the article from '97 that @johncoate has shown us! It’s great, really inspiring, have a look!
Thanks again @johncoate and @noemi - we’ll talk soon!
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After Matera and Bari, I’m ready to start working with this online community to never stop great feelings of this WE. =)
I want to share an italian network of social innovator that is really active in the main city of Italy.
I take part in a different project of ItaliaCamp like this:
http://www.festivalcrescita.it/citta/
Hugs for all of you
…and thanks for smiles and interesting discussions!
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Hello all from Matera Workshop, welcome to Edgeryders (or welcome back)
I’m Alex and i’m a Poet and creative producer working in theatre and live performance.
I’m also (by accident) the head chef for our larger gatherings! 
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Hi everyone, I’m reading “online community toolkit” written by @johncoate . I want to thank @noemi for last afternoon exercises but also for her smile and kindness. Please show me same photos about matera international workshop. Ciao
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Great i’ll see it 
Hi all!!! Hope you are all doing great! I share with you an interview I’de recently done with a community Bentornati al Sud. Here you have 
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