Comments on: What is an online community manager?

By: John

John — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 21:49:52 +0000

I’m glad I stuck in at school and could manage the spam protection maths!

I had a forum on my travel website and it was definitely more hassle than it was worth. Just seemed to attract every crackpot with arms length of a keyboard. I was actually threatened with violence against my family. That’s when all the whois data was made private and the forum closed down.

I guess I was partailly to blame as I made a few controversial and radical suggestions as to how our local community could kick start the tourist trade and obviously upset the wrong people.

Now blogging is enough for me. ..

Later, John

By: Christina

Christina — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 21:34:28 +0000

I agree with Frank that online community managers are more like jugglers than managers. Managing is just one of the many tasks that they have to juggle. If you can find someone who exhibits all the traits listed above, you have hit the jackpot. From my experience, talented people are very difficult to find. I would feel successful if I found someone who had even half of the skills!

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By: Gooser

Gooser — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 01:35:52 +0000

Good stuff. CMs tend to get a ton of flack and rarely enough recognition for the job they perform. It’s a serious undertaking, and hard to do well, but can make a HUGE difference if done right.

By: Martha Jones

Martha Jones — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 14:23:02 +0000

Tom,

That looks like a really good offer for your domain however, as Martin said, you need to think about whether selling it would be worth it (it is all about dumping losers and picking up winners, lol). Personally I had a social networking site a few years ago but it was too time consuming that I had to sell the site to a friend. Really, the time I spent on that site brought me no positive returns (yep, I was the typical “babysitter”, egg on my face ). Maybe I was doing things wrongly. I am glad to find this site. With Martin’s tips I am feeling a new positive energy to start another community site soon.

By: James

James — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 09:34:23 +0000

This is a fantastic post! People don’t realise how difficult it really is and pointing each feature of the job out like that really does put it in a different perspective!

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By: Nicole Price

Nicole Price — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 15:02:40 +0000

Thank you Martin.