One of the topics that has come up recently with our members is the topic of building social media and community advocates within their organization. Some of them are lucky in that they were hired to do community management and therefore have a sponsor above them but some of our members are their … [Read more...]
You might be a community manager if…
...communications is an integral part of your job ...you work with a dispersed group of constituents ...you are responsible for building & growing relationships That covers a lot of ground - PR/communications, marketing, sales, any management position, HR, product management, knowledge … [Read more...]
Conversations with Community Managers – Diane Hessan
Diane Hessan from Communispace is one of the most approachable CEOs you'll meet. When you meet her for the first time she really wants to get to know you and listens intently. It's not surprising she runs a successful social media company given this trait and it's also not surprising she has her … [Read more...]
Thoughts on the Emerging Discipline of Community Management
Dion Hinchcliffe and Dennis Howlett - both well known and respected enterprise IT voices and ZDNet bloggers - have recently highlighted community management as an important piece of corporate evolution. Dion's piece, Community Management: The 'essential' capability of successful Enterprise 2.0 … [Read more...]
Membership Fees In An Era of “Free”
The Community Roundtable as a concept was launched at this year's SXSW. Jim & I went to SXSW both to meet people and get feedback on our idea to build a private, fee-based peer network for social media and community managers. Suffice it to say we got enough encouragement to continue and in … [Read more...]
Cheeseheads
One of the leading best practices for community managers is to develop a core group of enthusiastic members that emerge over time as leaders. Microsoft even spun out their 'MVPs' as a separate community. SAP calls their group 'Mentors'. We like to think of these people as a community … [Read more...]
Conversations with Community Managers – Michael Brito
I found Michael Brito (@britopian) through a mention on Twitter. He'd written a blog post called "Social Media Marketing Will Soon Become a Commodity Skill Set" and it somehow found it's way into my stream. I agreed with the premise and let Michael know on Twitter. We had a back and forth and before … [Read more...]
Upcoming Events
We host weekly events including Work Out Louds, Ask Me Anythings, and Happy Hours alongside our regular member programs like Roundtable Calls, Platform Briefs, and more. We also host a number of live community management events like our annual Connect event held each Fall. View our entire … [Read more...]
Conversations with Community Manager – Shawn Morton
I met Shawn last March while on the Innovator's RoadTrip. He joined us for a beer in Columbus and talked about the innovative work he was doing at Nationwide. We soon realized we had a lot of friends in common and ended up at a lot of the same "social gatherings" at SXSWi. Good times! During this … [Read more...]
A Community? A Network? An Audience?
We have a lot of semantic issues in the social media/online space. The term community is particularly problematic because people tend to throw it around for any online group that interacts with content. The problem for me is that communities are not about content, they are about relationships. … [Read more...]
