Dear Survey Participant:

Capitalizing on the success we had bringing the community together with the Digital Family Reunion in December ‘08, Digital Family is launching its first thought leadership survey and we’d like you and your company to participate.

In association with USC’s Annenberg Program on Online Communities and E-Poll Market Research, Digital Family is conducting the Digital Family Survey: “Managing Online Communities” which will survey professionals from across the U.S. technology and business communities.

If you are a developer of communities, or someone within a company who is responsible for your community outreach, then please take this survey. If not, please forward this to anyone who answers this description. We are looking to capture the most valuable best practices of those professionals who are designing, managing and marketing Online Communities. The survey may be accessed at:
http://surveys.epoll.com/epoll/surveys/askSurvey.htm?sid=20248

The results will be presented at the Digital Family Summit on Wednesday, September 23 in Santa Monica where leading community builders, social media experts, application developers, marketers and digital media business leaders will come together to explore the very timely topic. Jason Calacanis will broadcast “This Week In Start-Ups” (http://thisweekinstartups.com) live from the event to thousands of technology professionals and will interview two major executives in the “online community” sector (Peter Hirshberg, CEO, The Conversation Group, and another to be announced shortly).

With an anticipated attendance of more than 500 industry leaders in attendance, plus thousands at home/work watching and interacting with the broadcast in real time using Twitter, blogging our “Community Forum” or answering our live survey questions, the Digital Family Summit promises to be one of the most important thought leadership events of the year.

Thank you in advance for participating in this survey or for passing it along to those who should.

Thanks for your consideration.

Brad Nye, David Leighton, Kurt Daradics and Tony Winders
www.digitalfamilyinc.com