Comments on: Social Media Community Manager Job Description

By: Marty Weintraub

Marty Weintraub — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 20:56:47 +0000

@William: Cool, we’re glad it resonates and has proven useful.

By: William

William — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 20:53:06 +0000

All-in-all a good post and I think more people will find it useful than not. Thank you for taking the time to write it.
Our division consults to small retailers and this description works pretty well for us.

By: Nick Wreden

Nick Wreden — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 03:14:34 +0000

Solid, well-conceived, well-executed post. However, I would add one item to qualifications: The ability to synthesize. The community manager will get a lot of information from a lot of sources, some of it contradictory. The ability to wade through that sea of information and correlate what’s meaningful will be essential.

By: tamaras

tamaras — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 07:41:09 +0000

What if the issue of this History major turned SM CM develops a rapid response that goes viral, impacts the companies stock, and changes a public companies guidance to the market?

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Job Descriptions — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 05:45:28 +0000

Social media community manager Job Descriptions can be found in many sites. But the one prepared by Marty Weintraub is really very good.
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By: MArk Fidelman

MArk Fidelman — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 17:45:41 +0000

This is where corporations are heading. The objectives will be different but there is a need for a Community Manager to replace the inernal PR team and interact online with propsects. I’d add the CM should be responsible for pushing propects down the sales funnel and into a commercial purchase decision through an education campaign. This person is not in sales, but dedicated to educating prospects on how to fix a business need.

By: Marty Weintraub

Marty Weintraub — Mon, 25 May 2009 20:55:10 +0000

@Connie Bensen: Points well made, thank you. The sheer man/woman power required to truly “manage” community means corporate-USA needs to train within. It’s incredible valuable to us, as an agency, when our client supplies associate community managers.

@Mike McDermott Thanks for contributing to this dialog

By: Mike McDermott

Mike McDermott — Mon, 25 May 2009 15:37:41 +0000

Connie you are really rocking the boat now!
Did you see that Pizza Hut hired a part time intern to do their Social Media.
Folks like you and I have a long way to go before social media is taken seriously within a corporation along with the compensation thereof.
I like to compare the Chief Community Manager to a Public Relations Manager/Director.
While college students can certainly handle the SM copy work, editing, posting etc. There should be a Director or Manager who can do the internal heavy lifting.
When that intern goofs up a post or a brand conversation flames up, they will need/want to have some leadership backing their continued efforts.