Archive for the ‘Online Communities’ Category

Looking for Community Manager jobs? Ask this important question at your interviews.

In: Online Communities| Social Media

17 Jun 2010

And we’re back!
It’s been an exciting couple of weeks for me. I recently landed a gig as an online community manager for a prominent social gaming company. More on that later, but the short version has me living in San Francisco and kick-starting an exciting new career. Good times!
As a result of this long job [...]

How To Grow Your Online Community with the ACT Model

In: Online Communities

27 Apr 2010

Last week I attended a presentation by Shama Kabani as part of a lecture series put on by the Dallas chapter of Social Media Club (and also featuring a fantastic talk by the inimitable Eric Swayne). Shama is the president of the Dallas-based online marketing firm Marketing Zen Group and author of The Zen of [...]

Need a jolt of activity? Appeal to narcissism.

In: Online Communities

7 Apr 2010

Social Media (and it’s parent buzzword “Web 2.0″) proves one thing: the most powerful force on the internet is narcissism. Well, and cats. Whether it’s a tweet, a blog or a Facebook status update, people love to talk about themselves. And when other people talk about them, they love it even more.
Is your online community [...]

The Historian on why you need an online community manager

In: Online Communities

25 Mar 2010

Video game community manager David “Historian” DeWald has a great article up on why your company needs a community manager.
One key point:
The launch phase of any community requires someone that is passionate and “transacting” a lot. Building communities is not about collecting as many people as possible and communities often don’t grow the way they [...]

Here we go again

In: Competitive Gaming| Grassroots Gaming| Online Communities

19 Mar 2010

The most important rule of blogging: choose a subject.
I started this blog as more of a scratchboard. A placeholder for ideas spread across various interests, including fiction, copywriting, creative agency life, social media, online community building, and video games. The old tagline, “Writing, Gaming and Brazen Geekery” expressed this.
As a personal project, that’s fine. As [...]

Balancing Acts: What Nazis, Communists, Americans, Iran and Roger Federer have in common

In: Miscellany| Online Communities

13 Jun 2008

Oh dear, I’ve gone and violated Godwin’s Law. At least I got it out of the way early, which was unavoidable as the entire point of this post is a review I read of Pat Buchanan’s new book. The former Nixon Adviser/former presidential candidate/current MSNB correspondent hops aboard the World War II revisionism short bus, [...]


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