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A couple of weeks ago, I wrote a similar post, but from the opposite side: Hiring a Community Manager. This week, I've received emails from several people asking about how they can become an online community manager. I thought it would be a good idea to write this post for people who want to be hired into their first community manager job. Start by reading the Hiring a Community Manager post. It...

The Portland Web Innovators meeting this month is devoted to 5 demos aka Demolicious. Metroseeq (Kevin Chen) This grew out of a free food association for college students. Metroseeq is a way to search for local discounts and is tied into Google maps, so you can get very local, targeted information based on a specific area, intersection, or address. You can search for coffee near an address and see...

It looks like a few of us are starting to play with Identi.ca. It's just like Twitter, but without the community and without any real tools to support it Anyway, there doesn't seem to be a good way to track @replies. I've put together a quick Yahoo pipe that will catch at least some of your replies. This is highly experimental (pre-alpha stage maybe). Welcome to the Identi.ca Reply Sniffer Pipe....

Tonight is the first in what will hopefully be a series of guest speakers for Legion of Talk, a Legion of Tech. event. Gary V. is in town for his book tour at Powells, and we were lucky enough to snag him to talk to us about how he has used social media to grow his family wine business. Here are my raw notes from the event: Gary would like to meet every human on earth, and it looks like we're...

Yes and no. Many corporate blogs are neglected, dull, and unimaginative, but they don't have to be like this. According to the Wall Street Journal: Many businesses have launched corporate blogs in an effort to better communicate with customers and capture a little Web-2.0 mojo. But Huffington Post they ain’t: Not only are these corporate blogs boring as paint, but the businesses behind admit...

A few interesting things this week ... Announcing Emailtoid: mapping email addresses to OpenIDs | FactoryCity Tags: openid, emailtoid, email, vidoop, chris messina, michael richardson The Challenge of the Social Media Executive Recruiter Tags: socialmedia, recruiting, jeremiah owyang rinzai – My $837.20 iPhone bill and how to avoid it Tags: iphone, at&t, raven zachary Is Twitter Changing...

I have decided to leave Jive Software to do something that I've been wanting to do for a long time ... start my own consulting business focused on online communities and social media. Many of my friends know that I have been talking about going independent and moving into consulting for a while now. The timing just seemed right to me. The background I was hired at Jive a little more than a year...