By Shannon Abram, Relationship Manager at The Community Roundtable.
Hard to believe that we’ve already reached the end of the first full week in August. Here in the Northeast we are still a few weeks away from back-to-school, but I’ve heard from folks in other parts of the country that their kids are gearing up to return next week! Whether you’re knee-deep in newly sharpened pencils and notebooks, or in a lake have a great weekend and enjoy the links below!
Things We Are Reading This Week
What I Learned about Community Management from Organizing a 1,700-Person Conference – On May 28-29, we held our third Machine Learning & Data Science Conference here on the Microsoft campus. This is an internal-only event that brings together our data scientists and engineers interested in advanced analytics, including machine learning and the end-to-end data science process and real-world applications that are leading to intelligent new apps and new insights from our ever-expanding universe of digital data. (If you don’t understand that description, that’s okay…
Is Gamification the Fast Food of Community Engagement? – In a tweet last week, my old boss at SAP, Mark Yolton, who is now leading Digital at Cisco, challenged the SAP Mentors and me to analyze Cisco’s gamification efforts. What they have done looks very…
State of Community Management 2015 Monday Fact #7: Real rewards for community advocates – Where’s your college diploma? If you’re like most people, it’s hanging on an office wall, sitting in a drawer, or stuck in the back of a closet. It’s nice to have, but the recognition that you graduated…
Get Executive Buy-In and Participation – Tip #3 for a Successful ESN – In this third post in my series of advice on how to build a successful enterprise social network (ESN), I discuss the following important tip: Get executive buy-in and participation.
The Seven Deadly Sins of Online Community Management – Think about why people engage in communities – they’re looking for context, a sense of belonging. Newbies need time to get acclimated. If you launch your brand new community with an immediate focus on “acquiring” new members, that will put these newbies off, especially if there’s no value or content for them when they first arrive…
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- Community Manager – Tendr – Brooklyn, NY
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- Social Media & Community Manager – SteelSeries – Chicago, IL
- TED Fellows Community Manager – TED – New York, NY
- Associate Community Manager – Nexon America – El Segundo, CA
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