By Shannon Abram, Relationship Manager at The Community Roundtable.
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Things We Are Reading This Week
State of Community Management 2015 Monday Fact #6: Community Strategy Needs Resources – We’ve said many times in this space that having a community strategy is a critical part of getting your community to succeed. Strategy is critical, but it’s just the first step in the process of building a successful community. It needs to be coupled with a roadmap and the resources to execute on that roadmap for your community to succeed.
Activating Knowledge Sharing at DLR Group – Video about creating engagement from Christopher Parsons from KA Connect
Best Practices for Selecting a Community Platform – Q: What’s the difference between buying a new home and selecting a community platform? A: One is a major expense, fills you with angst and forces you to move all your stuff. The other changes your address.
Why won’t people ask questions in the open? – When someone needs to find the answer to a question, what do they tend to do?
- Try searching their hard drive, an FAQ database, or the Internet
- Turn to the person sitting next to them
- Call or instant message a trusted colleague
- Send an email to a few people or a distribution list
- If the first four options don’t work, give up
A Guide to Social Collaboration and Learning – What is social collaboration and learning? How can organizations benefit from using these? How do you calculate ROI? We get the answers from James Tyer.
The Web We Have to Save – The rich, diverse, free web that I loved — and spent years in an Iranian jail for — is dying. Why is nobody stopping it?
New Social Media and Community Jobs
- Technical Marketer – Godaddy – Sunnyvale, CA
- Senior Social Business Strategy Consultant – East Region – Jive Software – Boston, MA
- Social Media Director – iTalent – Miami, FL
- Social Media Manager, Glamour – Condé Nast – Entertainment and Media Industry – New York City, NY
- L’Oréal Paris – Director, Social Media – – New York City, NY
- Director, Social Media – Celebrity Cruises – Royal Caribbean International – Miami, FL
- Sr. Social Media Manager, Traffic Strategy – Birchbox – New York City, NY
- Social Media Manager – Full Time Exempt – Herschend Family Entertainment – Pigeon Forge, TN
- Director of Network Relations – Scion Staffing – Stanford, CA
- Director of Digital Content – Sinclair Broadcast Group – Las Vegas, NV
- Director of Digital Marketing – Mondo – Los Angeles, CA
- Community Manager – Lifesize – Austin, TX
- Community Manager – WeWork – Portland, OR
- Community Manager – R/GA – Austin, TX
- Community Manager, Making Strides Against Breast Cancer – American Cancer Society – Fresno, CA
- Content and Community Manager – PI Worldwide – Wellesley, MA
- Community Manager – Cimpress – Lexington, MA
- Marketing Community Manager – Cultura Technologies Inc – Minneapolis, MN
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