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Friday Roundup – Resources for Community Managers

August 7, 2015 By Jim Storer

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…

 

New Community and Social Media Jobs
  1. Community Manager – Loot Crate – Los Angeles, CA
  2. Social Media Specialist/Community Manager – Beneva Solutions – Sarasota, FL
  3. Community Manager – WeWork – New York, NY
  4. Jive Community Manager – Callminer – Waltham, MA
  5. Community Manager – RecargaPay – Arkansas
  6. Community Manager – Laundry Service – Los Angeles, CA
  7. Community Manager-Ovirt – Red Hat, Inc.  – Westford, MA
  8. Platform Growth Community Manager – Twitter  – San Francisco, CA
  9. Community Manager – Daily Secret Inc. – New York, NY
  10. Community Manager  – Superpedestrian – Boston, MA
  11. Marketing Community Manager  – Cultura Technologies Inc – Minneapolis, MN
  12. Community Manager – Daily Secret Inc. – New York, NY
  13. Press & Community Manager – Fundrise – Washington, DC
  14. Community Manager – SkySlope – Sacramento, CA
  15. Content and Community Manager  – PI Worldwide – Wellesley, MA
  16. Community Manager  – Tendr – Brooklyn, NY
  17. Community Manager – Bully Dog Technologies – American Falls, ID
  18. Social Media & Community Manager – SteelSeries – Chicago, IL
  19. TED Fellows Community Manager – TED  – New York, NY
  20. Associate Community Manager – Nexon America – El Segundo, CA

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Want to advance your career in community management? The resources in TheCR Network help community professional excel at their jobs, and get the training and development they need to level up!

About Jim Storer

Jim has always been interested in bringing people together and connecting them to one another, whether it’s for events, online communities or a food/craft beer tasting. Connect with Jim on Twitter or Linkedin.

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