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Community Un-Managing: Cheat Sheet for Community Managers and Tips for Companies

12.25.2012 by Maggie McGary // Leave a Comment

As I wrote in my last post, I recently left my position managing social media and online community for a large professional association. In the process of disconnecting myself from the organization’s various social media accounts, it occurred to me that I haven’t seen a lot–or anything–written about how to leave a community management position. […]

Categories // Community management, Online community, Social media Tags // associations, Community management, online community

Threat to Associations? The $10,000 a Year Online Community

08.08.2012 by Maggie McGary // Leave a Comment

Yesterday I saw a job on Twitter: “Membership sales for Social Media.org.” As an association veteran, I’m used to membership director or manager positions–but have never seen a membership position billed as a sales position. So I went to check out Social Media.org, and discovered it is a “community for social media leaders at the […]

Categories // Associations, Community management, Online community Tags // associations, Community management, online community

Knowing When to say Goodbye to Community Management

06.12.2012 by Maggie McGary // Leave a Comment

There’s a time and place for everything…and sometimes you’re in the right place at the wrong time. Like if you’re a community manager in all but a handful of companies today. Community management is the “it” job right now–it sounds so hip and glamorous and like a great career move. After all, isn’t the future […]

Categories // Community management, Online community Tags // Community management, online community, social media

31% of Associations Have Online Communities. Where are the Association Community Managers?

04.30.2012 by Maggie McGary // 1 Comment

I just read a post about an upcoming membership marketing benchmarking report, specifically detailing the part of the report that addresses social media use by associations. The report surveyed 700 associations and, according to the summary of the upcoming  report, among associations with over 20,000 members, 31% reported having a private social network. Hm, I […]

Categories // Associations, Community management, Online community Tags // associations, Community management, online community

Community Manager Appreciation Day

01.23.2012 by Maggie McGary // Leave a Comment

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, […]

Categories // Community management, Online community Tags // CMAD, Community management, online community

Associations: Launching a Community? Who’s Managing it?

09.01.2011 by Maggie McGary // Leave a Comment

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 […]

Categories // Associations, Community management, Online community Tags // Community management, online community

Pharma Companies: Hire a Community Manager Instead of Deleting Your Facebook Pages

08.14.2011 by Maggie McGary // Leave a Comment

A few months ago, I blogged about Facebook’s impending decision to make life hard for pharmaceutical companies. According to today’s Washington Post , these changes will be going live tomorrow, forcing most pharma pages that have previously had closed walls to open them to allow comments. What isn’t clear in the article is whether this […]

Categories // Online community, Social media Tags // Community management, online community, social media

Community Manager Confusion, Influence, and More

06.13.2011 by Maggie McGary // Leave a Comment

Even though I’m 43 years old I can’t resist announcing–it’s my birthday today. What am I doing to celebrate? Well, today, working, but tomorrow I’m taking my first trip to England. Yes, it took me 42 years on this planet to get a passport, but I finally got one and I’m going to visit a […]

Categories // Online community, Social media Tags // Community management, online community, social media

Social Media Manager Fatigue

04.25.2011 by Maggie McGary // 1 Comment

Everyone knows being a social media manager is the funnest job in the world, right? I mean, what’s NOT to like about being paid to be on Facebook and Twitter all day? If that’s true why am I spending more and more time thinking maybe getting into this line of work was a terrible idea […]

Categories // Uncategorized Tags // Community management, online community, social media

ASAE’s Community Manager Position

02.25.2011 by Maggie McGary // Leave a Comment

Have you seen the movie White Chicks? If so, you know that part where they say “OOOH, you want to talk about mothers?!” Weirdly, that scene was what I thought of when I saw ASAE’s listing for a community manager. Why? Because if you read this blog you know if I have one pet issue, […]

Categories // Online community Tags // associations, Community management, online community

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