I hate titling these blog posts with the words “community management.&# So why am I writing a third post in three days on community management? The waves of blogging conversations about community management seem to be washing on the shore closer together these days. Community Managers and HEART she says? Uh oh.) MORE >>

With the launch of Jivespace , I have been thinking more about what it really means to be an online community manager. With the launch of any new product, it always feels like time to step back and enjoy the lull before starting the next new project; however, this is the time when the community manager role accelerates rather than slowing. MORE >>

Write something tomorrow (Tuesday, July 28), tag it #octribe or tweet it as #octribe, and your post will be linked from the recap page. Do you use an assumed value as part of your communities ROI reporting? So, to wrap up: • Please post your thoughts on valuing member participation on Tuesday, July 28th. How OCTribe works. MORE >>

via: Mobile RSS Email Alerts Bios: Dion’s Bio September 28th, 2009 Community management: The essential capability of successful Enterprise 2.0 Now community management is increasingly proving not just useful but a critical component of Enterprise 2.0 Community management itself can be sensitive subject in the social media arena. MORE >>

They are both practical considerations when managing knowledge management programs. Managers just dont get it. They are hearing part of it (the rapid adoption part) but not the self-managed part. But what happened was management saw that our "communities" had all the attributes of their portals but little of the pain. MORE >>