jasonyormark.com Home About Me My Videos My Resume Contact Me Browse > Home / Community , Social Media / Vanns Community Manager Update: I Turned The Opportunity Down | Subcribe via RSS Vanns Community Manager Update: I Turned The Opportunity Down September 14th, 2009 Posted in Community , Social Media Tweet Share Because so many of my family, friends, friends of friends, etc. came out in hordes to support my Vanns Community Manager role video application, I felt it was important and appropriate to write a follow up for everyone. Be more transparent. MORE >>

Optimizing the platform (the user experience) is part of the community manager's role which tends to get overlooked. In most communities, few people use it. Have an option to show the unanswered posts on the community-landing page. Try using an application form instead. Classic example of a small, potentially important, optimization; change how the discussions appear in the community. Ensure tweets mentioning the topic appear on the community site. If the community has been going for a while, consider embracing a reputation system. MORE >>

Will you be screaming out from a brick-size book to make your point in a busy community hall? There are people who love testing the patience of people around them and then there are people who appreciate and value it! Which group you belong to? It’ll surely draw the attention of people but for wrong reasons. So, chart your information before you climb the dais. You’ll need more than just recitation to hook people to your facts. That’s why people, all over the social networks, are going gaga over infographics. It’s a cocktail of information and design. Portable. Global. Viral. Easel.ly MORE >>

The community was shaped to her needs and facilitated the kind of interactions, learning and development paths she needed to practice successfully. She could post and read about cases on this community platform; ask for advice; compare results; brainstorm on solutions; and go as deeply as she wanted into a specialized issue. Its value was not a list of “benefits” but the community itself: a facilitated joint journey of continuous discovery. Demand Perspective Humanize associations community innovation social media strategic thinkingWe all have had these moments. MORE >>

In earlier IT campaigns, identifying and prioritizing the applications that would generate the greatest business value was relatively easy. These applications focused primarily on improving the effectiveness and efficiency of known business processes within functional silos (for example, supply-chain-management software to improve coordination across the network). By contrast, our research shows the applications that drive the most value through participatory technologies often aren’t those that management expects. First time here? Read our Quarterly Basics. adoption. MORE >>