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The Future of Community Management

Ignite Social Media

The role of a CM, as we know it today, really started in 2005 , when the role was akin to “The Forum Moderator.” For example, CMs (both internal and external) may collaborate with Customer Service, Marketing, Communications, R&D, Digital, eCommerce teams. That people-first mentality seeps into everything a CM does.

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The Many Roles of an Internal Community Manager

Social Media Strategery

Along with this realization has come greater demand for people to handle things like user adoption, marketing, and community management – we’re witnessing the rise of the internal community manager. The Internal Community Manager wears many hats. The same thing happens in an online community.

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Nuggets from Social Media workshops as of late. : Community Group Therapy

Buzz Marketing for Technology

Here are some random thoughts from a collection of these experiences and feedback from conference speeches: 1) Features are NOT user experiences: Warning…if you ask someone about desired user experience and they say wiki or forum, you have work to do. 4) None of the following are community platforms: Wikis, Blogs or Forums.

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Dear IT Guy, Can You Actually Use the Tool You're Creating.

Social Media Strategery

The developers are often the most active members of their respective communities and they’re using their own software day after day in the course of doing their jobs. If there’s a glitch involved with posting a new comment to a forum, they’re going to be the first ones to see it, diagnose the problem and fix it.

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