Sadly, I did not go to SXSW (mom, that’s not “S-W-S-W” but South by Southwest). But I may as well have been there based on how many times I’ve seen it mentioned online over the past week. Sigh…maybe next year. At any rate, one of the thousands of SXSW things that flowed through either my […]
So You Think You Want to be a Community Manager?
Even though this article is recent, the fact that community management is one of the hottest jobs around isn’t news–after all, 2010 was the “Year of the Community Manager” and the past few years have been all about talking about the hottest job around–community manager (aka social media manager or about a dozen other titles). […]
Community Manager Appreciation Day
Photo by elkokoparrilla, on Flickr Unless you are a community manager (and maybe not even then) you probably don’t know that today is Community Manager Appreciation Day (CMAD). Well, guess what? It is! Two years ago Jeremiah Owyang suggested that the fourth Monday of January be a day to “take the time to pause, recognize, […]
Associations: Launching a Community? Who’s Managing it?
This past year I’ve seen the number of community managers skyrocket….except in the association space. At the same time, in the association space, there seems to have been an explosion of orgs launching white label community platforms. Obviously this costs money–a decent amount of money…yet many associations investing in the technology don’t seem to be […]
