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My 17 Year Old Self Printed Out This Forum Thread 26 Aug 2013 | 06:00 pm
photo credit: Jamison_Judd Back in 2002, I wrote an article for SitePoint about buying a good domain name. In the article, I advocated for buying domain names without hyphens (so KarateForums.com inst...
You Can Remove Content From Your Community While You Decide if It is OK 22 Aug 2013 | 06:00 pm
photo credit: CERDEC Sometimes there are things posted on my community that I am not sure about. Usually I can give a definitive answer easily, but once in a while, it isn’t as clear and I want to ask...
Write a Book, Give it Away and Get Paid #New Rules (My SXSW Interactive 2014 Proposal) 20 Aug 2013 | 12:00 am
South by Southwest (SXSW) has opened the PanelPicker for the 2014 edition of their conference. It is one part of the selection process through which they decide the content for the event. I have been ...
Should You Write an Article About What a Community Manager Does? 15 Aug 2013 | 06:00 pm
photo credit: SurfaceWarriors I was talking to Jennifer Sable Lopez, Director of Community at Moz, yesterday and I was reminded of a trend of articles that I’ve noticed, about community management. Es...
How Did You Get This Awesome Job? Work 12 Aug 2013 | 07:00 pm
Gregory Ng is an acquaintance of mine. He’s the Chief Strategy Officer and Chief Marketing Officer (which is kind of amazing) at Brooks Bell, a firm focused on A/B split testing, targeting and optimiz...
Don’t Mess With Forum Owners 9 Aug 2013 | 05:26 am
photo credit: VikramDeep You don’t want to mess around with forum owners. And when I say mess around, I mean that you don’t want to anger them by doing something disrespectful or by trying to take adv...
Updating My Article on Suicide Threats for the Discretion of the Community Manager 5 Aug 2013 | 08:00 pm
photo credit: The Headless Headbanger Almost 4 years ago (wow, it definitely doesn’t seem that long ago), I wrote a long article discussing suicide threats and how to handle them when they are posted ...
Director of Community and Director of Marketing Should Make a Great Team 1 Aug 2013 | 08:00 pm
photo credit: Tim Dobson When I think of “social media,” I think of two things, primarily: community and marketing. Yes, it can and does touch other areas. But, for the most part, when it comes to who...
Could the United Kingdom Block “Web Forums” by Default? 29 Jul 2013 | 08:00 pm
photo credit: dno1967b Glenn Pegden shared an interesting link with the e-mint community recently. It was a blog post on the Open Rights Group website by Jim Killock, focusing on efforts in the United...
Those Small Things You Do to Make Your Community a Better Place? People Notice 25 Jul 2013 | 08:00 pm
photo credit: gurms Community management is about the small things and, at times, that can make you feel like people don’t notice. Then there are those moments that remind you that they do. I received...
