One of my favourite examples of a successful online community is The Student Room. Many communities struggle to do both.    This is a community which has clearly reached the mitosis phase in the community lifecycle. The community is currently organizing a ski & snowboard trip for its members in 2012.   4) Strong sense of community. Students have a good sense of community anyhow, but the Student Room has excelled in introducing the elements which facilitate a strong sense of community. This avoids the MySpace trap. MORE >>

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 >>

Facebook, Myspace, LinkedIn, and many other networks allow you to have more than one email address associated with your account, so if you have a few different email addresses that others may have in their online contacts lists, make sure they are all linked to your social media accounts. What are some more benefits of being socially networked, and what other steps can you suggest to help others build their social networking communities? Tags: Social Media facebook linkedin myspace social networking twitter Everyone uses social media in their own way. Social Media Dataflow. 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. On-site communities (e.g. MORE >>

Guy Kawasaki once said that one measure of a company’s commitment to the Macintosh community was whether the CEO could be found in the company’s Macworld booth. MySpace Is Where the Young People Hang Out. Everyone knows MySpace is the social network for kids, but in truth, in October, 2006, comScore reported More than Half (51%) of MySpace Visitors are Now Age 35 or Older, as the Site’s Demographic Composition Continues to Shift. Of course the demographic at MySpace, and on every network, continues to shift, and is interpreted differently from study to study. MORE >>