Here are the highlights of community related posts in my reading recently. I have started stumbling them, so if your link gets listed, may the StumbleUpon traffic smile upon you!

Enjoy!

Olivier Blanchard builds on Tish Grier’s 7 Traits of a great community manager. (I met Tish at Blog World. She’s amazing! :) )

Romaine Pechard has Community + leveraging = You have to lead or fail

From Poland, community manager Arvind Juneja wrote a great piece showing a software company’s humorous response to a bug that a customer found. You definitely should watch the 2 videos! It’s a good chuckle.

Dawn Foster has created a specialized Google search of blogs by Thought Leaders in the Community Management space

Adam Singer lists some new people to follow in his series on Influencers:

Where should the Community Manager Role be in an organization by Jeremy 

Measuring the Immeasurable: Researching Community Health by Kristin Shoemaker

Tom Humbarger has a nice graphic in Everything in Moderation

Building community around your blog by Ricardo Bueno (I met Ricardo at Blog World – he’s a rising star & his blog has many valuable tips + he’s a super guy!

LiveBar adds a Community to any website – Bryan Person, LiveWorld evangelist gave me a sneak peak to this & demo’ed it for me last week. I was impressed. It melds comments with the full community experience. The nice thing is that it leaves the discussion connected with the article in a nice clean way. With the popularity of magazine style sites I can see this as being a great option!

A great piece on social networking by Beth Kanter, Pumping up your Professional Network (Her blog is filled with great information on using social media)

The popularity of my Twitter 101 post surprised me! For the teachers that read my blog: Using Twitter as an Educational Tool by Ron Jones

Zappos 10 principles they live by (a bookmark posted by Jake McKee)

Gartner Report Why Many Social Software Projects Fail has a good list of characteristics needed for success.