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Collaboration Strategy Shortcomings? Whack the Community Manager

There's been a good flow of conversation around the role of 'community management' in large companies recently, with an underlying idea that although it's a tough job things will work out if the right people are involved, although Dennis Howlett recognises the danger of burn out....

Tags: Exec, Community Manager, Underling, Underlings, Collaboration, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Software, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-10-03

The burnout risks for E2.0 community managers

The Black Art of Community ManagementDennis -You add some really excellent social context for Dion's more operations-focused post. You bring up some really good points:- Community management is a cross-functional responsibility. Organizations are not set up really well for cross-functional activities currently. At a minimum community managers should be seen...

Tags: community manager

Discussion threads 2009-09-30

What do community managers, you know, do?

One of the questions I get most often is "what does a community manager do"? As a growing field (in as much as any field is growing these days...), there's a fair amount of interest in what community managers do. Dawn Foster has a great post on...

Tags: Community Manager, Recruitment & Selection, Communication Skills, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Career, Joe Brockmeier

Blog posts 2009-01-30

Despite weak economy, strong demand for community managers

Despite weak economy, strong demand for community managersPukeNot only do we have to deal with thousands of kids named Barak, we have to deal with "community" being the new tech buzzword. Stop the ride, I want to get off.

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Discussion threads 2008-11-10

Despite weak economy, strong demand for community managers

Looking for a new gig? Apparently the market is hot for community managers. Even though the job market seems to be pretty soft these days, the demand for community managers doesn't seem to be waning. According to ReadWriteWeb: It's a hot job. We only expect it...

Tags: Job, Community Manager, Recruitment & Selection, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Joe Brockmeier

Blog posts 2008-11-10

Community managers and corporate structure

Community managers and corporate structureHonoured to see you here!This is an unexpected pleasure for me: to meet here an important representative of one of the main Linux distro's: openSUSE. :-)I love openSUSE 11.0; it's the operating system that I use most on my multi-boot laptop (my desktops run exclusively on...

Tags: openSUSE

Discussion threads 2008-09-03

Community managers and corporate structure

Stormy Peters reflects on where community managers ought to reside in the corporate structure. According to Bernard Golden, community managers ought to be in the support structure of a business. I've heard sillier things, but I'm not convinced by a long shot. Right now, most of the...

Tags: Community Manager, Stormy Peters, Marketing Research, Marketing, Joe Brockmeier

Blog posts 2008-09-02

Community managers akin to 'Internet police'

More fodder for the "marketing should stop trying to control the message" file. Don't control. Don't manipulate. Join the conversation. by Jennifer Leggio

Tags: Twitter, Community Manager, Internet, RSS, Blogging, Team Management, Benefits, Management, Human Resources, Jennifer Leggio

Blog posts 2008-08-28

Sourceforge missing community manager opportunity

Sourceforge community manager Ross Turk called today and we had a nice talk about the site's Community Choice Awards, whose nominations opened today. (Shown is the avatar of Socrates Jansma, community manager for OurVirtualHolland. Notice the nifty virtual tie with matching handkerchief. Every girl's crazy about a...

Tags: SourceForge, Community Manager, Wiki, Benefits, Online Communications, Human Resources, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-05-12

Additional Resources

The Enterprise 2.0 Value Propositions Agenda

Time is Money: Where's the Beef? The now biannual US 'Enterprise 2.0' conference is a wrap, but disappointingly there is still little business understanding of what the term means or what the value propositions and benefits are. The general 2.0 suffix is well understood by technology...

Tags: Collaboration, Enterprise 2.0, Conference, E2.0, Susan Scrupski, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-11-05

Can open source software stop IT failure?

I'm not so sure #1 is valid#1 is a variation of "many eyes make all bugs shallow"Does it help? Yes. But it also makes the implicit assumption that everyone that can view the code is competent to do so. So it goes back to resource allocation being an issue, if...

Tags: Strategy, OPEN SOURCE, information technology, IT Failure, F/OSS, software, open-source software

Discussion threads 2009-10-26

IlyeSoft MultiDesk 1.0 (Windows)

This multiple virtual desktops manager lets you organize applications over several virtual desktops (also called 'workspaces'). It's useful when you need to run many windows/applications in same time, so running them in differents desktops will make your work very easier. Virtual desktops are very common in Unix/Linux, and once you...

Tags: Desktop, Microsoft Windows, Virtual Desktop, IlyeSoft, Desktop Virtualization, Virtualization, Hardware

Software downloads 2009-10-18

Mediaraptor 4.0.26608.0 (Windows)

Caution! Hard drive manufacturers and DSL providers are warning against an outbreak of excessive free music and videos! Mediaraptor is unbeatable when it comes to record millions of MP3s from web radios and music videos online. No P2P file sharing networks! No subscription required! Mediaraptor is today's cutting-edge solution for...

Tags: Web, Radio, Microsoft Windows, Video, MP3, Music, RapidSolution Software, Mediaraptor, Mediaraptor MusicFinder, Corporate Communications, Portals, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Internet

Software downloads 2009-10-10

Collaboration Strategy Shortcomings? Whack the Community Manager

Spot onHi Oliver -Thanks for adding your perspective to this and for referencing our Community Maturity Model. I think you are spot on in calling out the fact that current initiatives and strategic intent are fairly unbalanced right now in terms of resources and ownership. Companies are recognizing...

Tags: COMPANIES, Collaboration Strategy Shortcomings, collaboration

Discussion threads 2009-10-05

News to know: Adobe; OpenSUSE; Ubuntu; IBM; P2P; Palm

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Adobe Flash for all smartphones ... except iPhone Andrew Mager: Google and Adobe join forces on Open...

Tags: Ubuntu, Adobe Systems Inc., Google Inc., High Tech Computer Corp., Data Center, Information Technology, P2P, Palm Inc., Novell OpenSuse, Jason Perlow, Apple Inc., Beta, IBM Corp., Data Centers, Tablets, Cloud Computing, Strategy, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Notebooks & Tablets, Management, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-10-05

openSUSE 11.2 M8: What a Fine Lookin' Lizard

Ubuntu's Karmic Koala isn't the only hot Linux beta floating around. On October 1, the openSUSE project released Milestone 8 of openSUSE 11.2, which is slated for general release in November, just in time for the holiday season. Milestone 8 will precede two release candidates to be also released...

Tags: Ubuntu, GNOME, KDE, Object-oriented, KDE 4.3, openSUSE 11.2 Milestone 8, Open Source, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2009-10-04

The burnout risks for E2.0 community managers

Dion Hinchcliffe's piece on community management surprised me. There is a sense that Dion is trying to lay down some ground rules in an area that is too new for anyone to draw anything other than tentative and early stage conclusions. That's not to say that conclusions are incorrect. There...

Tags: Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-09-29

Community management: The 'essential' capability of successful Enterprise 2.0 efforts

Community RoundtableThanks Dion. Community Management is one area our members have identified requires much more attention in the process of successfully deploying a large-scale effort. For a great resource for Community Managers, I recommend Rachel Happe and Jim Storer's Community Roundtable. This member group provides isight on how...

Tags: successful Enterprise 2.0 effort, Enterprise 2.0 effort, Enterprise 2.0

Discussion threads 2009-09-28

'Cultures of participation' and IT success

Definitely agree participation is keyI couldn't agree more that the aspects outlined in the graphic depicting IT project success are immensely critical. With almost 20 years of IT project participation in large and small IT shops, the projects that had those aspects were hands down more successful than the...

Tags: Strategy, Groupware, Human Factors, information technology, collaboration

Discussion threads 2009-09-24

Bumblebee Default Icon (Mobile)

A theme dedicated to Transformer. The best Bumblebee theme ever. Nice design in every detail. You won''t miss it as a Transformer fans! The default icon version especially for those faithful user of BB. Those familer icons looks like their old friends , even though you cann''t always see them,...

Tags: Theme, Mobile, Shanghai Jibiao Info Tech, E-mail, Online Communications

Software downloads 2009-09-24