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Friday Roundup: Saying Thank You, 30,000 Times

June 6, 2014 By Jim Storer

By Shannon DiGregorio Abram, Relationship Manager at The Community Roundtable.

Thank you

UPDATE: The State of Community Management has now been viewed more than 75,000 times! Learn more about The Community Roundtable and what we do for hundreds of organizations and community managers by clicking here.

The first week of June has been an exciting one here at TheCR. The State of Community Management 2014 had it’s 30,000th view yesterday! We are thrilled that the research is connecting with and engaging community managers around the world – and we can’t thank you enough for reading along. We’ve also spent a good chuck of this week brainstorming upcoming projects, new research initiatives and more content to help members, and non-members alike advance the business of community at their organizations.

Also related to the SOCM 2014 we released our 4th poster in a 10-part series of fun facts from the report. You can check out the latest here. Do you have a favorite fact or stat from the report? Send it our way and it just might be selected as a future poster!

The Email Embargo Policy: Turn Smartphone Off and Chill!: Be honest. How often do you check your email? Do you scroll though messages before work? In bed? On vacation?

Let Your Employees Mix Business and Personal Time at Work: While taking time out of the workday to run personal errands has previously been frowned upon in the corporate world, a recent infographic by Captivate Network on “homing from work” – doing personal activities during the workday – shows mixing work and personal time may be the best way to rectify work/life conflict.

Spark Creativity with These Tips from Pixar’s President: Growing up, Ed Catmull was transfixed by two things: Disney films and computer science. He went on to earn his PhD in the latter, but he never forgot the magic he discovered in animation.

LiNC 14 social media conference: five key takeaways: Marketers and business leaders from global brands BuzzFeed, Sony and Telstra debated the future of social marketing and the value of online communities at the LiNC ‘14 conference in San Francisco.

Why You Hate Work: The way we’re working isn’t working. Even if you’re lucky enough to have a job, you’re probably not very excited to get to the office in the morning, you don’t feel much appreciated while you’re there, you find it difficult to get your most important work accomplished, amid all the distractions, and you don’t believe that what you’re doing makes much of a difference anyway.

3 Tricks to Make It Easy for Busy Executives to Participate in Your Online Community: As easy as it would be to show your executives this data and have them immediately begin actively engaging your online customer or member community, we all know that isn’t likely to happen. Executives are busy.

New social media and community jobs:

  1. Senior Community Manager – Social Listening Expert at iCrossing- New York, NY
  2. Senior Manager, Online Community Management Consulting – at Socious – Mesa, AZ
  3. Social Media Strategist at Analytic Recruiting, Inc.- Baltimore, MD
  4. Social Media/Community Manager at Extreme Networks- Salem, NH
  5. Social Media Community Manager at AAA Auto Club Enterprises- Costa Mesa, CA
  6. Social Media Manager at Villa- Philadelphia, PA
  7. Community Manager at Meredith Corporation- Los Angeles, CA
  8. Community Idea Exchange Manager at AT&T- Atlanta, GA
  9. Community and Contents Manager at OneTraction- San Francisco, CA
  10. Social Media Community Manager at A.T. Kearney, Inc.- Chicago, IL
  11. Stylist Community Manager at Stella & Dot- San Bruno, CA
  12. Social Media Community Manager at Cardtronics- Houston, TX
  13. Community Manager at Electronic Arts- Los Angeles, CA
  14. Community Manager at Cie Games- Long Beach, CA
  15. Content/Community Manager at Lawley Insurance- Buffalo, NY
  16. Community Manager at Blizzard Entertainment – Irvine, CA

It’s so exciting to see so many new community manager jobs cropping up every week all around the country! We’ll see you back here next week. We’ll share the recap from this week’s awesome Community Manager Spotlight webinar with Ian White and more!

 

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Friday Roundup: Goodbye May

May 30, 2014 By Jim Storer

By Shannon DiGregorio Abram, Relationship Manager at The Community Roundtable.

TheCR team up to no good at LiNC 14 in San Francisco.

TheCR team up to no good at LiNC 14 in San Francisco.

If April comes in like a lion, and out like a lamb, what does May do? It’s beautiful here in Boston today, but I hear rain is on the way. Either way, we’re still looking forward to a weekend of yard work, BBQing and relaxing. This week we shared a new Faces of Community Management post and a sneak peek into TheCR Network for any interested non-members out there. Rachel also took part in a great webinar with our friends at DNN – you can find the archived version here.

This week we have lots of great links for you, an invitation to a don’t miss webinar with Ian White from Rackspace, and of course new community and social media jobs from around the web.

  • Webinar: Community Manager Spotlight with Ian – If you’re considering, implementing or managing a community-based support model this is a don’t miss webinar. Join Ian White, Manager of Support at Rackspace, as he discusses his award-winning customer support tactics.
  • 56 Lessons From 20 Years of Online Community Building – Ever wonder what it takes to succeed with online community strategy and operations? Here are 56 lessons learned culled from 20 years of online community building experience.
  • Mary Meeker’s Big Deck On Key Internet Trends – Mary Meeker, a partner at VC firm KPCB and one of the legendary observers of the Internet industry, is presenting her annual outlook on the industry this week at Code Conference put on by Re/code.
  • The Evolution of Online Communities – Do you remember VHS tapes from the ‘80s and ‘90s? Home video was a game-changer back then, giving movies a second life and another chance at turning a profit. Then came DVDs, high-definition Blu-ray discs, and now we have on-demand Internet streaming from cable and over-the-top providers. With each step in the evolution, quality and accessibility improved.
  • Disciplined Clarity About Culture – Jack Dorsey, one of the Twitter Founders and now CEO at Square, sent a quick memo to his employees (that he also posted publicly on Medium) about something that may sound somewhat unimportant: using other people’s names to push ideas.
  • Digital collaboration goes deeper, gets lightweight and intelligent – Two tracks seem to be emerging with today’s enterprise collaboration tools. Either they’re becoming full-sized suites with the kitchen sink, or they’re focusing making a few core features work better than anyone else.
  • Building Customer Communities Is the Key to Creating Value – What are your customers telling their friends and colleagues about your business?
  • Who Manages The Community Manager That Manages Your Community? – Community management is among the fastest-growing job areas in recent years. The increasing popularity of the social networks means that companies are ever-mindful of the need to have a presence in an environment where being absent means the conversation is taking place without you, and so have cast their nets in a bid to hire community managers with a wide range of profiles.

Community and Social Media Jobs

  1. Senior Manager, Online Community Management Consulting at Socious – Mesa, Arizona
  2. Russian Community Coordinator at Playstation – London
  3. Communications Officer, Community Manager Generalist/Digital Strategist Job at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation – Seattle, WA
  4. Community Manager at Purina – St. Louis, MO
  5. Senior Community Manager at GREE – San Francisco, CA
  6. Associate Director, Social Media at iCrossing – New York, NY
  7. Senior Community Manager, Emerging Products & Services at Autodesk – San Francisco, CA
  8. Digital Community Manager at WGBH Educational Foundation – Boston, MA
  9. Community Manager at Beats By Dr. Dre – Los Angeles, CA
  10. Community Manager at digitalundivided – New York, NY
  11. Community Manager Intern at Disqus – San Francisco, CA
  12. Senior Community Manager – Agriculture, Food and Beverage at World Economic Forum – New York, NY
  13. Content and Social Media Manager at Luxury Link Travel Group – Playa Vista, CA
  14. Social Media Community Manager at mzl – Austin, TX
  15. Cloud Evangelist / Community Manager at Netuitive, Inc. – Reston, VA
  16. Community Impact Manager at Google – Phoenix, AZ
  17. Assistant Community Manager – Weekend Specialist at GameStop Texas Ltd. – San Francisco, CA
  18. Social Media Community Manager at OtterBase 2 reviews – El Segundo, CA
  19. Community Manager at Needle – Bluffdale, UT
  20. Manager, Corporate Communications at LinkedIn – Mountain View, CA
  21. Social Media Strategist at Pearson Education – Lakeland, FL

Have a wonderful weekend – we’ll see you in June!

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Friday Roundup: The Roadtrip is Over

May 23, 2014 By Jim Storer

By Shannon DiGregorio Abram, Relationship Manager at The Community Roundtable.road trip

Happy Friday, everyone! If you’re in the US you might already be out taking advantage of a long weekend and celebrating the Memorial Day holiday! Our month-long roadtrip came to an end today with the conclusion of the LiNC event in San Francisco, and our whole team is ready to re-charge after a busy May.

This week we have some great links for you, a new Community Fact poster, and of course – social media and community jobs!

The links:

  • Webinar: Community Manager Spotlight with Ian – If you’re considering, implementing or managing a community-based support model this is a don’t miss webinar. Join Ian White, Manager of Support at Rackspace, as he discusses his award-winning customer support tactics.
  • SOCM Community Fact #03 – Executive Engagement Matters – We’ve heard a lot of talk in the last few weeks about the link between executive support and community success It seems like executive adoption is on the mind of many community practitioners, and with good reason.
  • The Flip Side Of Employee Engagement – “In a world where Gallup pollsters say 71% of American workers are “disengaged” from their work, “employee engagement“ is clearly an issue needing to be addressed.”
  • Social ROI = Return on Insanity – “There’s no way to put this delicately, so I’ll be blunt: quantifying the financial benefits of an enterprise social network is turning your company — and the entire social technology industry — into a three ring circus.”
  • Culture Eats Strategy For Breakfast – “I used to think corporate culture didn’t matter. Discussion of vision, mission and values was for people who couldn’t build product or sell it! We had work to do and this MBA BS was getting in the way! And then my first company failed.”
  • Webinar: How Real-World Community Managers Build Successful & Thriving Online Communities – Does your branded customer community have what it takes to be best-in-class? Find out May 29 when DNN hosts The Community Roundtable for a discussion on how top-performing online communities deliver quantifiable business value.
  • How to Design Your Enterprise Social Network for Maximum Impact – Check out this four-part series which highlights the Fogg Behavior Model and strategies to drive member engagement.
  • Beyond Adoption to Value Creation – “A great deal of attention in enterprise social networking has gone into ‘driving adoption’. A focus on adoption can distract organisations from the real challenge of any business activity, creating value in fulfilment of the organisation’s strategy.”
  • Ask Me Anything (or how to steal the best ideas for making work better) – Great overview on the popular “Ask Me Anything” open discussions from John Stepper. We think AMAs are a great content and engagement tool in networks.

Social Media and Community Jobs:

  1. Senior Manager, Online Community Management Consulting at Socious – Mesa, AZ
  2. Community Manager at Moementum – Bend, OR
  3. Blackbaud Net Community and Social Media Administrator at Clark University – Worcester, MA
  4. Director, Global Marketing, Digital and Social Media at Global Specialty Retail Company – New York, NY, USA
  5. Community Manager at Synergis – San Francisco, CA
  6. Coordinator Athletics Social Media at College Sports – Murfreesboro, TN
  7. Sr. Associate Social Media Community Management at Capital One – McLean, VA
  8. Community Manager/Social Content Strategist, Multicultural at Marina Maher Communications – New York, NY
  9. Associate Manager, Online Communications at ASAE & The Center for Association Leadership – Washington, DC
  10. Associate Director of Communications at SeriousFun Children’s Network – New York, NY
  11. Leader, Social Media & Digital Communications at MasterCard – Miami, FL
  12. Digital Client Engagement Strategist at Fleishman-Hillard – Dallas, TX
  13. Senior Community Manager at Townsquared – San Francisco, CA

Have a wonderful weekend wherever you are! I hope the weather is lovely and you have excellent company. We’ll see you back here on Tuesday with a new Faces of Community Management profile!

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Did you know that TheCR Network members work with all kinds of communities? In fact, about 25% work in either internal or external communities and 50% work with both! No matter what kind of community you work with membership in TheCR Network will save you time and improve the quality of your work by connecting you with peers, experts and curated information. Learn how joining TheCR Network can improve the work you do.

Friday Roundup: J.Boye Recap Edition

May 9, 2014 By Jim Storer

By Shannon DiGregorio Abram, Relationship Manager at The Community Roundtable.

Photo Credit: @jedpc

Photo Credit: @jedpc

We kicked off an exciting May of travel by tagging along with Rachel as she attended the J.Boye Web & Intranet Conference in Philadelphia. Rachel, along with three TheCR Network members, presented at the conference, and if our twitter stream is any indication, a great time was had by all.

Next week Rachel and Shannon will visit Orlando for Collective 2014, and the week after Jim, Hillary and Jillian will trek to the West Coast and visit San Francisco for Lithium’s LiNC. Will you be attending any of these events? Let us know – we’d love to catch up in person!

Didn’t get to attend J.Boye? We’ve pulled together all our favorite moments from the three day event in our very first Storify and included it at the end of this post.

Don’t worry – we didn’t forget the links (or the jobs!) this week:

Framework: Collaborative Economy Honeycomb – “The Collaborative Economy enables people to efficiently get what they need from each other. They use powerful technologies that enable Crowdfunding, Peer-to-Peer lending, the Maker Movement, and the Sharing Economy. If you look closely, the crowd is becoming like a company: self funding, designing, producing, and sharing what they already have.”

To Be Heard, Turn Down The Volume – “What is it about the Internet that has made everybody so sure of themselves? You’d think the level of disruption during the past 20 years would have had the opposite effect. Instead, the number of people stepping onto their virtual soapboxes and telling the rest of us what to do and think has exploded. They opine with such surety, such clarity, such force.”

New Webinar: Community Manager Spotlight with Ian White – This 30 minute live webinar on June 3rd at 2pm ET will focus on Ian’s community journey and his team’s innovative use of a community customer support model. His team recently won a silver award for Best Use of Technology in Customer Service at the eighth annual Stevie Awards for Sales & Customer Service. This webinar will include a Q&A – have your questions ready.

Want to Succeed in Social Business? Invest in It .- “The good news is that 76 percent of communities have approved strategies. This is a great indication that organizations and executives can now envision the value communities will contribute to their business and suggests a maturing market. The bad news? Only 35 percent communities have approved and resourced roadmaps.”

Community and Social Media Jobs:

  1. Community Executive at 1000heads – Greater New York City Area
  2. Senior Community Manager at Reputation.com – Redwood City, CA
  3. Global Director of Social Media BlackRock USA –  NY
  4. Social Media Copywriter at Thrillist Media Group – NY
  5. Director Social Media Marketing at Capital One – Mclean,VA
  6. Associate Director, Social Media at Fuel Freedom Foundation – Irvine, CA
  7. Pro Sports – Social Media Associate at Workinsports – Minneapolis, MN
  8. Online Community Manager at TechSoup Global – San Francisco, Remote Work Possible
  9. Community Manager at  HERE, a Nokia business – Boston, MA
  10. Social Media Community Manager at MDG Advertising – West Palm Beach, FL
  11. Community Manager at Carolina Herrera – New York, NY
  12. Social Media Strategist at Mason Zimbler – Austin, TX
  13. Community Manager at CyberCoders, Newton, MA
  14. Community Manager – Unreal Engine at Epic Games – Cary, NC
  15. Director of Social Media at Bentley Channel Group – Washington, DC
  16. Social Media & Community Manager at Zoosk – San Francisco, CA
  17. Content & Community Manager at The News Hub – London, England
  18. Community Manager at NPR – Washington, DC

 

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Looking to take your career in community management to the next level? 92% of members agree that TheCR Network supports and advances their personal and professional goals. Learn how our research, access to peers and experts, targeted content and exclusive concierge service can help you achieve your goals. 

 

Friday Roundup: The SOCM 2014 Edition

April 25, 2014 By Jim Storer

By Shannon DiGregorio Abram, Relationship Manager at The Community Roundtable.

SOCM 2014 SponsorsAfter months of surveys, number crunching, chart perfecting and copy editing the State of Community Management 2014 was finally released this week! It feels a little bit like our baby bird has flown the nest – but we couldn’t be more excited to share it with you. We’ve already seen a few interesting articles analyzing the data – and we’d love to hear from you. If you have a perspective on the data or the findings please share it with us and we will feature it in a Friday Roundup post!

This week was understandably SOCM heavy for us, but there are some other great links from around the web and of course – the latest and greatest community and social business jobs we could find.

 A few SOCM focused articles from around the internet: 

  • Announcing The State of Community Management 2014
  • How to Create a Best-In-Class Online Community
  • Executive Involvement Aids Successful Online Communities
  • Review: The State of Community Management 2014
  • SOCM 2014 Community Fact #1 – The Power of Advocacy
  • 3 Ways to Drive Executive Participation in Your Community
  • 3 Takeaways from 2014 State of Community Management Report
  • The full community retrospective podcast with Rachel Happe and Jim Storer is now available in three parts: Part One, Part Two and Part Three
  • We’re excited about three upcoming events in May: the J. Boye Philadelphia 14 Web & Intranet Conference, Collective 2014 and Lithium LiNC – will you be attending any of these events? Let us know – we’d love to catch up in person!

Other great links: 

  • Free Webinar: Community Manager Spotlight with Maggie McGary – Great for those involved with associations
  • Shape your work, not the other way around
  • How Our Brains Work When We Are Creative: The Science of Great Ideas
  • Culture Shifting: America’s next big industry

And as always, the coolest community and social media jobs available this week: 

  1. Director of Community Solutions at Small World Labs – Austin, TX
  2. Online Community Consultant at Small World Labs – Austin, TX
  3. Social Media Community Manager/Editor at DoctorDirectory.com – Asheville, NC
  4. Senior Community Manager at Reputation.com – Redwood City, CA
  5. Community Manager – at Firebase – San Francisco, CA
  6. Technical Community Manager at Famo.us – San Francisco, CA
  7. Community Manager, Turkey New York at Foursquare – New York, NY
  8. Global Community Manager atUBM – New York, NY
  9. Online Community Manager at National Institute for Children’s Health Quality – Boston, MA
  10. Social Media Community Manager at Creative Circle – Dallas, TX
  11. Manager, Community Mgmt at DigitasLBi  3 reviews – Illinois
  12. Director of Social Listening/Community Manager at Freeman Leonard – Dallas, TX
  13. Senior External Community Manager at Jive Software – Palo Alto, CA
  14. Senior Community Manager – Internationalization at Mozilla-  Remote, OR
  15. Sr Community Manager at CA Technologies – Islandia, NY
  16. Community Manager, Design Focused – Chicago at Uber – Chicago, IL
  17. Digital Analytics and Community Manager Job at The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation – Seattle, WA
  18. Content & Community Manager at eCommerceFuel.com – Bozeman, MT
  19. Senior Director, Community Operations at deviantART – Los Angeles, CA
  20. Principal Community Management Associate Social Media at Capital One – McLean, VA
  21. Social Media Strategy Manager at Kforce – Plano, TX 

 

Have a great weekend – we’ll see you next week with a news Faces of Community Management profile, the monthly Network recap with Hillary and a new Community Fact poster!

 

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Looking to take your career in community management to the next level? 92% of members agree that TheCR Network supports and advances their personal and professional goals. Learn how our research, access to peers and experts, targeted content and exclusive concierge service can help you achieve your goals. 

 

 

Friday Roundup: Happy Anniversary to Us

April 18, 2014 By Jim Storer

By Shannon DiGregorio Abram, Relationship Manager at The Community Roundtable.

2/3 of TheCR Team

2/3 of TheCR Team at The Anniversary Happy Hour

This week we were lucky enough to celebrate our fifth anniversary! We gathered with good friends and members at the Summer Shack in Cambridge, MA (the site of some of the very first TheCR Lives!) and shared cupcakes, beer and memories. You can check out pictures from the party on our facebook page.

All month we’ve been looking back at the last five years in the community world and honestly, it’s ok to get a little teary. We’re so proud of the friends we’ve made, the companies we’ve collaborated with and the community managers we support every day. Ok, enough mushy stuff.

This week the links are heavy on community jobs – 20 in fact!  There are so many cool opportunities out there for community and social business professionals right now – it’s definitely an exciting time to be in the space. Have an awesome job not listed here? Add a link in the comments, or tweet it to us and we’ll be sure to share it!

  • Podcast: Community Chat with Nancy White
  • How VR is going to change Community Management (slightly)
  • Interview with a Community Veteran – Michael Pace
  • Podcast: Community Retrospective –  Part One and Part Two
  • Infographic: The Community Roundtable’s 5th Anniversary
  • Recap: Community Manager Spotlight Webinar with Heather Ausmus
  • 20 community jobs:
    1. Director of Community Operations at Meetup
    2. Social Media Communications Specialist at BCBSNC
    3. Global Community Manager at UBM
    4. Instagram is looking for a #CMGR
    5. Social media community manager job at @Shutterstock
    6. Internal/Yammer Community Manager role at Macquarie Group
    7. Specialist, Community (Small & Medium Business) at Facebook
    8. Social Media Community Manager/Analyst at GYK Antler
    9. Senior Community Manager at Reputation.com
    10. Community Manager, Boston at HERE, a division of Nokia
    11. Community Manager at Mirrorball
    12. Community Manager — Social Media at Lumentus 
    13. Social Community Manager at DigitalOcean 
    14. Social Media Community Manager at Verizon 
    15. Community Manager – Unreal Engine at Epic Games
    16. Community Manager (Social Media Manager) at POSSIBLE
    17. Community Manager at Passenger 
    18. Social Community Manager at HTC
    19. Community (On-Line) Manager Job at Thomson Reuters
    20. Social Business Community Manager at VCE, the Virtual Computing Environment Company
    21. Global Director of Social Media at BlackRock USA

Have a wonderful weekend! We’ll be back on Monday with the final installment of the Retrospective podcast series with Rachel Happe and Jim Storer and we’ll be releasing the State of Community Management 2014 on Tuesday!

 

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Did you know that TheCR Network members work with all kinds of communities? In fact, about 25% work in either internal or external communities and 50% work with both! No matter what kind of community you work with membership in TheCR Network will save you time and improve the quality of your work by connecting you with peers, experts and curated information. Learn how joining TheCR Network can improve the work you do. 

Friday Roundup: Five Year Anniversary Edition

April 11, 2014 By Jim Storer

By Shannon DiGregorio Abram, Relationship Manager at The Community Roundtable.

The First TheCR Live - Five Years Ago

The First TheCR Live – Five Years Ago

Yesterday we shared this picture via twitter in honor of #tbt (throwback thursday) of Rachel and Jim at our very first TheCRLive, at the Barking Crab in Boston, MA. It’s hard to believe that was five years ago. This month we’ve been looking back at those five years though interviews with veteran community practitioners (so far we’ve chatted with Heather and Nigel), a podcast series with our founders and a fun infographic of our favorite milestones.

You can catch up on any content you missed in our links, find new community jobs, and more!

  • Infographic: Celebrating Five Years of Community
  • Last call: our 5th Anniversary Happy Hour is next Tuesday – Join us!
  • We’re excited about three upcoming events in May: the J. Boye Philadelphia 14 Web & Intranet Conference, Collective 2014 and Lithium LiNC – will you be attending any of these events? Let us know – we’d love to catch up in person!
  • New community/social jobs from Nike, Microsoft, Edelman and the Human Capital Institute
  • Predicting when users will leave an online community based on their language use
  • A Shared Purpose Drives Collaboration
  • Interview with a Community Veteran: Nigel Fortlage, Vice President, Information Technology (CIO) at GHY International
  • Podcast: Community Retrospective – Part One – Jim and Rachel share how they met and their earliest ideas for The Community Roundtable
  • Talking with IBM’s @Sandy_Carter About Social, ROI, and Women in Tech
  • The cresting of the enterprise social stream
  • Helpful advice on discovering your purpose
  • Community Comes From Difference, Not Just Commonality
  • How to be More Productive and Eliminate Time Wasting Activities

We’ll be back next week to share one more week of anniversary content before we release the 5th annual State of Community Management 2014 report on April 22! Stay tuned for the final two parts in the founders podcast series, another interview with a community manager and a podcast with a very special guest!  Have a great weekend!

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Friday Roundup – Building Value for 2014

January 10, 2014 By Jim Storer

Image via SmilingTreeToys at Etsy.com

Image via SmilingTreeToys at Etsy.com

As we head into the new year we’re paying special attention to building  value in our communities in 2014. Over the last week week we looked at resources you can use when you’re building a social or community program, the value of social business and how to articulate the power of community management.  We’re already looking forward to next week when we’ll tackle the idea of building reputation in community management.

Our favorite links this week include two exciting social jobs, a lively discussion on community participation and some great advice from an industry expert. We’re also excited for some upcoming events and would love to hear where you plan on learning and networking in 2014.

As always have a safe and happy weekend. We’ll see you on Monday with some fun blog content from expert guests!

  • Percolate is hiring a Community Manager and a Client Solutions Manager in NYC.
  • Great comments on this post about getting a non-technical audience to participate in a technical support community.
  • The five elements of Working Out Loud from John Stepper.
  • Goals, Objectives, and Setting Your Social Media Radar on Success
  • A few valuable events coming in the next few months: IBM Connect, Enterprise 2.0 and J. Boye Web and Intranet.

Looking for our first Community Management Fellow

August 15, 2011 By Rachel Happe

Community management is increasing in importance as organizations realize that a new management discipline is required to effectively participate in and get value out of online social environments. As interest in the field has expanded, The Community Roundtable has grown – more members, more products, and more partnerships.  It’s an exciting time for us and filled with opportunities to help shape the market.

At the same time, it is challenging for our clients to find people with the right background to fill critical community management roles and challenging for people with interest but without direct experience to find community management positions.

We see the opportunity to fill the needs of the market and our needs in a unique way: TheCR Community Management Fellowship. This fellowship is intended to last 6-12 months and give individuals a strong background and network with which to find a permanent community management position.

The Community Management Fellowship will provide:
•    Formal community management training
•    Hands-on community management experience
•    Access to leading community management practitioners
•    Direct access to potential employers
•    The opportunity to work with a variety of organizations and brands
•    Community management and business mentorship
•    A stipend of $2,500/month

The Community Management Fellow’s responsibilities would be the following:
•    Commitment of 30 hours a week for at least 6 months and no more than 12 months
•    Day-to-day community management tasks
•    Content development
•    Program planning
•    Analysis and reporting
•    Special projects which, depending on the person’s skill set and interests, could be research, content, business development, marketing, or events projects.

Skills and attributes we are looking for:

  • Communication skills, in particular strong writing and conversational expertise
  • Program management and strong organizational abilities
  • Knowledge of and experience with social tools including blogs, Facebook, and Twitter
  • Understanding of general business principals and organizations
  • An engaging personality
  • A sense of humor

Why the fellowship and not a permanent hire? As a small organization there are risks for someone in deciding to work with us and there are risks for us in making a permanent hire. By providing training, access to market leaders, and a stipend to a fellow, we can ensure that she or he is very well positioned to find a great community management gig with a larger organization at the end of the fellowship. To us, this creates a win-win-win for potential community managers, employers, and for us. It also serves our mission by enabling us to develop trained, experienced professionals for the market.

While right now, we are only looking for one fellow over time we are hoping to expand this program if there is interest – potentially to community managers with full-time positions for whom regular outside experience, training, and mentoring would allow them to ramp up more quickly or to take on additional responsibilities.

Are you a recent graduate looking to get into community management or a mid-career professional looking to transition to the field? This fellowship is ideal for you.

If you are interested in applying, please tell us more about yourself:

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Thank you for your interest!

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The Community Roundtable  is committed to advancing the business of community. We offer a monthly subscription report, a membership based peer network, a community management training program and advisory services for corporations and individuals.

Community & Social Business Job Board

September 29, 2010 By Rachel Happe

As an organization that caters to mid- and senior-level community, social media, and social business practitioners we’ve had a lot of people ask for recommendations and referrals; both organizations looking for social business leaders and professionals looking for opportunities. We’ve done what we can to make introductions – and still will – but thought it was also a good time to launch a job board that focused on manager, director, and VP level jobs in the social sphere. These job listings are free to TheCR Network members to post, $100 for 60 days for others. We have had a number of great positions listed already – at Aquia, ADP, AisleBuyer, and the CFA Institute – so if you are looking for good candidates or good opportunities, come by and check them out or subscribe to the feed.

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