Social Media Consultant and Tech Geek at Heart Home About Press Consulting Contact Sitemap Home > Marketing , Social Media > 10 Community Manager Responsibilities that Don’t Involve Twitter and Facebook 10 Community Manager Responsibilities that Don’t Involve Twitter and Facebook by Tamar Weinberg on March 17, 2010 Share This is a guest post by Itamar Kestenbaum. Every time I tell someone I’m a Community Manager , I get a varied response. But what if you’re Community Managing for a company that makes matchbooks? community participates. Kewlz!&# MORE >>

Ben Martin is Global Community Manager at AVG. Previously, Ben was a Communities Executive for an Online PR and Social agency called Content & Motion. Over the last six years he build his experience in managing online communities for large, multi-national brands across many different sectors. G: How did you build your experience as community manager? B: My first foray into Community Management was back in 2005 when I set up a MySpace page for Download Festival ( www.downloadfestival.co.uk ), which I was going to that year. B: Time. MORE >>

It became a more prescient concept when MySpace collapsed as Facebook began to gain its momentum. Back then, it was much easier to build and update a MySpace page than it was to build and nurture a unique website. The problem is that when everyone started bailing on MySpace, the bands were left with little community. On top of that, they had no way to take the sweat equity (content, connections and more) to another platform. MySpace did. When MySpace changed their rules, the bands were affected but couldn't do much about it. content. MORE >>

One of those conversations was with a former colleague who told me her company has just blocked Facebook and MySpace from their computers stating employees were “wasting too much time on the social networks.” On our Intuit Community dozens of different employees interact every day answering questions, solving problems and simply act as a sounding board for our customers. And what is even better is the Community is where customers go to talk to other customers as well. Christen Wegner is a former journalist turned resident Gen Yer on the communications team at Intuit. MORE >>

INFOGRAPHIC] 33 HP Tablet: How to Find a Deeply Discounted HP TouchPad 19 Content vs. Community: How Online Publishers Can Nurture Both August 19, 2011 by Jordan Kretchmer 25 Share on Tumblr email share Share on Tumblr email share Jordan Kretchmer is the founder of Livefyre , an engagement platform that goes beyond threaded comments to help you increase the conversation on your web properties, attract new readers and commenters from all over the web, and build hyper-active communities around your content. So, content and character, that’s the recipe. MORE >>