Community Manager Jobs

Jake McKee has relaunched his community manager job board. You can also find community management jobs at Monster, SimplyHired, Indeed and Web Strategy. How did

Don’t Waste Your Time On Outsiders

Go with the members you’ve got, the rest will join later. When you start your community building efforts, many people wont join. Not right away.

5 Important Lessons For Building A Community

If you’ve read this already, you might have missed some really important lessons. Don’t Set Restrictive Objectives. We’re not using Twitter as they expected. We

What To Do With A Dull Product

It’s hard to imagine a toilet paper community. Especially one that benefits the client in a big way. Some products are services just aren’t important

What’s The Minimum Number Of People You Need To Start A Community?

The answer is the same as the maximum. One, and that’s you (say hi!). Your community starts with getting yourself involved. If your mind isn’t

If You Can’t Start Conversations, Don’t Start A Community

You can might save a lot of money by running this pre-community check. E-mail/call a few people you want in the community and try to

Are You Thinking Short-Term Enough?

Imagine a line that represents what average in your field have. If you’re below that line, you’re disadvantaged in some way. If you’re above the

Create An Easy Reason To Take A Small Step

Make it easy for members to take the first step into your community. Jon goes go door to door inviting members of a disadvantaged area

Ask For The Minimum To Get The Maximum

A highlight from Jeff Jarvis: “Explosive web companies—Skype, eBay, craigslist, Facebook, Amazon, YouTube, Twitter, Flickr, and Google itself—don’t charge users as much as the market

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