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:
- Social Media Power Users And Influencers: Part 1
- Social Media Power Users And Influencers: Part 2
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.
Thanks for the links Connie, hope I sent some new people here!
Great compilation here Connie. Sometimes filtering and sharing great content is just as important as creating great new content.
I took the time to check out @Adam Singer’s social media influencers (awesome posts btw), and I definitely have a different approach for my little mini-project so glad there will be no overlap there.
I’m definitely looking forward to reading the rest of these the second I have a chance to breathe!
Connie:
Thanks for writing about LiveBar in your community roundup. So pleased that you’re impressed. We’re certainly exciting about helping organizations build and manage communities around the content pages on their site. Hey, and with any luck, you may end up as community manager for one of them!
Bryan Person
LiveWorld social media evangelist
Thanks for providing so many outlets for great information.