Blaise Grimes-Viort

Recently, I’ve been practising my French and involving myself in French discussions on Twitter about the definition of a Community Manager. It seems that the role is only just starting to be discovered in France. Unfortunately it’s still something employers are reserving for interns and work experience placements, but hopefully that will change soon. Anyway, [...]

A roundup of links relating to Online Communities I saved on delicious.com or retweeted for the week ending 26th of February 2010.

Cults have always been a bit of an obsession of mine, so much so that I spent a year studying the workings of one from the inside a few years ago. Whilst many of their recruitment, assimilation and retention techniques are steeped in mind-control and mental abuse, the core psychological principles are similar to good [...]

A roundup of links relating to Online Communities I saved on delicious.com or retweeted for the week ending 19th of February 2010.

Is there room in an organisation for both a community manager and a social media manager, or are the roles too similar? We cover the difference between both sets or responsibility and focus.

A generic Head of Social Media job description, part of a series of posts on Online Community and Social Media job descriptions including Head of Social Media and Director of Social Media.

A roundup of links relating to Online Communities I saved on delicious.com or retweeted for the week ending 12th of February 2010.

A generic Head of Online Community job description, part of a series of posts on Online Community and Social Media job descriptions including Head of Social Media and Director of Social Media.

A generic Online Community Manager job description, part of a series of posts on Online Community and Social Media job descriptions including Head of Social Media and Director of Social Media.

A generic Social Media Manager job description, part of a series of posts on Online Community and Social Media job descriptions including Head of Social Media and Director of Social Media.

I recently posted a comment on Sue’s post discussing Community Management job titles, which led me to think a lot about the large number of different types of community management job description I have seen over the years. I also feel that, with the rise of social media as a career field, the title of [...]

A roundup of links relating to Online Communities I saved on delicious.com or retweeted for the week ending 5th of February 2010.

I’ve published a list of people who blog about Community Management, as well as some agencies who can help develop Community Management, Social Media and Moderation solutions. I will be updating it from time to time with new finds, and of course feel free to comment on the page with any suggestions you might have. [...]

Using Arthur Klepchukov’s great Foursquare Yahoo Pipe to sniff out special offers, I’ve cloned one for London users. Read on…