By Shannon Abram, Relationship Manager at The Community Roundtable.
I might sound like a broken record – but this is my last Friday to remind you that our Community Manager Salary Survey closes next week. The response from the community has been fantastic – but as always, the more responses we receive the more complete and comprehensive the final research report will be. If you haven’t contributed your insights please take ten minutes now to do so. If you have had a chance to contribute – Thank you! Please consider sending the survey to one or two friends or colleagues that can also contribute their input. Remember – the raw data is confidential so you can share with confidence!
3 Tips for Building Your Community and Social Media Team – This is a guest post from Sarah Price, Community and Social Media Programs Lead for Google Glass and member of TheCR Network. Managing a community team or hoping to someday? Your community managers, forum reps and social support agents will be the face and voice of your brand. Here are a few tips for building a strong team you can trust.
Working out loud at Deutsche Bank – Deutsche Bank , the German global investment bank, employs nearly 100,000 staff across more than 70 countries. Through its Jive-based platform staff are learning a new habit: ‘working out loud’.
How our new CEO leads before he has even started – I’m pretty excited about our new CEO Mads Nipper! It could seem like a paradox, since I haven’t met the man, and he will not even start until August 1.st. But I actually feel I know him enough to be not only excited – but also confident – in him, and that he can make a positive difference for Grundfos.
The Best Community Managers Have These 5 Traits – Do you have an unfaltering attention to detail? Stellar sense of humour? Penchant for puns? In the newest entry in our mini-series on community management, we tackle the traits a community manager needs to have in order to get a handle on the brand, the community, the product and the newest trends.
Nerd Note: How Zombies Make Your Writing Active – I’ve written here before about the importance of writing in active voice. Simply, active voice makes your writing strong and more concise. This typically means writing in subject, verb, object format. I loved this little quip, originally introduced to me by a former editor-in-chief. If you can add “by zombies” to the end of a sentence, you are writing in passive voice.
Tips & Tricks for Building a Community Management Reporting Dashboard – Creating dashboards that your management team will actually review is a tricky task. I spent the last year of my community management career heavily focusing on reporting and community objectives, and thought I’d share what I learned with the broader community tribe.
Brand Anonymity is Dead: Meet Community Manager 2.0 – A few years ago, I wrote a piece about the future of marketing. Within the post, I made a few predictions: 1. We would see people begin to reach a point of marketing max saturation; leading consumers to become more selective about which brands they engage with.
The Evolution of Community Management: Preliminary Data from the CMSS 2014 – Online community management is far from new – it’s been around since the beginning of the Internet, and in more formal capacities at media companies since the 90s. Our aggregate understanding of the role, however, is still evolving. What we know from our work over the last five years with clients is that the role varies pretty dramatically based on the strategic importance of the community, experience and responsibility level of the community manager, community use case and the maturity of the community program
New Community Manager and Social Media Jobs
- Full Time Marketing Manager – Digital Brand Expressions – Plainsboro, NJ
- Community Manager (Contract) – DocuSign – Seattle, WA
- Brazilian Community Manager (Remote Possible) – Red 5 Studios – Orange County, CA
- Content Marketing Manager – Guidepoint Global – New York, NY
- Community Manager – FirstService Residential – Lyndhurst, NJ
- Community Manager – Transformers Universe – Jagex Games Studio – California
- Social Media Community Manager – TechnologyAdvice – Brentwood, TN
- Community Manager – MassMutual Financial Group – Boston, MA
- Customer Community Manager – Agilent – San Jose, CA
- Community Manager – TimeWarner Corporate – Burbank, CA
- Community Manager – Turner Broadcasting 108 reviews – Burbank, CA
- Community Manager – University of Minnesota – Minneapolis-Saint Paul, MN
- Community Manager: Mobile – Electronic Arts – Austin, TX
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Community Manager – HBO – Burbank, CA
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Community Manager – K. Hovnanian Companies – Milpitas, CA
- Community Manager – Warner Bros. Entertainment Group – Burbank, CA
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Community Manager – The CW Network – Burbank, CA
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Part-Time Digital & Social Media Specialist – Francis Tuttle Technology Center – Oklahoma City, OK
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STEPS Marketing and Communications Coordinator – University of Kentucky – Lexington, KY
- SEC Marketing Coordinator – ESPN – Charlotte, NC
- Social Media Coordinator – Velcro USA Inc. – Boston, MA
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