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The Many Roles of an Internal Community Manager

Social Media Strategery

The Internal Community Manager wears many hats. It’s very much like trying to teach someone to use a wiki for collaboration instead of using email. You will have to be the one who can start start and manage difficult conversations with the community. Project Manager – These communities don’t build themselves.

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

Social Media Strategery

IT departments are increasingly being asked to implement wikis, blogs, social bookmarking, video-sharing, and dozens of other varieties of collaboration software – software they may know how to code, but often have no idea how to actually use. As a developer, you should be expected to blog, tweet, edit wikis, etc.

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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.