Growing strong communities with Isidora Katanic

Isidora Katanic is going talk to us about how to grow a strong community, how successful events are organized, her tips and tricks to give great online presentations, and the importance of diversity and inclusion.

She’s also going to share her opinion on how Covid-19 affected the conference world, and how these 2020 changes encouraged more people to join tech and use it in everyday life.

Isidora is going to talk about some of her future goals and share with us her favorite Community Projects as well as explaining to us what the “Head in the Cloud, Heart in the Community” video series is all about.

Guest Bio: 

Isidora Katanic ​is a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) and Co-Host of the video series "Head in the cloud, Heart in the community". 

She’s also the Co-Founder of the event management company districtUP - organizing IT community conferences Experts Live Europe and Experts Live Switzerland focused on Microsoft cloud, data center, security, and modern workplace technologies. 

Isidora engages with the Microsoft community and travels around the world to organize, speak, and attend conferences to learn, connect, and share with others. 

In 2020 Isidora has been awarded the #AzureHeroes badge in the category of Inclusive Leadership. She has also been selected as the 1st Cloud Community Champion, a community-driven initiative.

Quote 

“When you think about it, community stands for a common-unity. So I think the importance is to find people who actually have something in common, the power and success are to get those people to work together. To form a unity together.”​​Isidora Katanic 

Timestamps: 

(0:00) Episode Summary(1:43) Guest Intro(2:51) The meaning of Community(3:42) How to build a successful tech community(5:12) The power of storytelling(7:13) How to grow a Twitter community(10:50) How to keep people interested in your event(13:32) What Isidora finds appealing in an event(16:38) The conference world post-Covid-19(19:53) Tips on doing online presentations(23:40) Top 3 tech things Isidora is passionate about(26:49) Isidora's favorite fantasy tech(28:58) Diversity and Inclusion(31:54) How to empower others(33:07) Isidora's future community projects(34:09) Shout out to the community(35:49) Episode wrap up and goodbyes

Links:

Connect with Isidora on: 

https://www.twitter.com/isidorakatanichttps://www.linkedin.com/in/isidora-katanic-0b479534/https://www.isidorakatanic.com/video-seriesIsidora's video series, Head in the cloud, Heart in the community: https://www.isidorakatanic.com/video-series

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