Beta Communities


Q&A: How do you initiate a beta community?
What does CoolTown do?
Visual map of the beta community process in action
Crowdsourcing a NOLA network to a team to a building to a coffeehouse...
Beta community update Q4 2007
Cool towns need a Linus Torvalds/Steve Jobs combo (2 of 2)
Cool towns need a Linus Torvalds/Steve Jobs combo
First beta community meets in New Orleans
The first beta community meeting in Syracuse
Beta communities seeding in many cities (Part 2)
Beta Communities seeding in many cities
The Beta Community Challenge!
Beta community to own profit-based shares
Four different beta community types
The first VIBE beta community meets in DC
Louisville's beta community vision for downtown
Web 2.0 and why your city needs it to attract the creative class (2 of 2)
Web 2.0 and why your city needs it to attract the creative class (1 of 2)
How can a City establish a 'beta community' to attract the creative class?
Reader question: How to ensure developers are fair to creatives?
How to establish your own beta community
Louisville establishes a beta community!
Calling on cooltown-oriented developers
$150 million equity network for CoolTown redevelopment projects
Charrette lays out vision for Detroit
The beta community
Public-private partnership in action
Just do it: The Public-Private Partnership Development Team
The challenge: Collaborative CoolTown support groups
The need for CoolTown support groups
Building relationships for a CoolTown
Cool towns + 'hollywood model' = CoolTown Studios
Learning from Hollywood's movie studios
So what is a 'cooltown', really?
Phase II: Building the Physical Community
Phase I: Building the Human Community
The CoolTown Program