This document discusses the role of a community manager. It notes that community managers must always be plugged in to various social media platforms and that their work involves actively engaging on Facebook, Twitter, Flickr and YouTube. Community managers must have the ability to watch for trends, listen to constituents and resist being too defensive. They are responsible for monitoring various social media alerts and engagement metrics to measure their success both quantitatively and qualitatively. The document stresses that community management is a real job that involves assembling the right toolkit and engaging in meaningful conversations across multiple platforms.
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