The Gevril Group website, for example, which I developed in concert with Ivo Jackson and John Sealander , uses the WordPress content management system, a very basic 3-column theme, an opt-in form and a Facebook widget. Social networking sites , such as Facebook and LinkedIn , are very useful and will likely figure in your online plans. MORE >>

The Community Roundtable A peer network for community managers and social media practitioners. You’ll hear their collective voice in The State of Community Management and it represents over 180+ years of community management experience and comprises everything we learned over the course of 2009. WordPress Admin. MORE >>

significance) – our experience shows us that communities without community managers are much more likely to die off, go off track, become thorny stews, or get so insular that they can’t grow or evolve. So having a community manager is definitely worthwhile. financial benefit) of community management. WordPress Admin. MORE >>

There are a few things that come up somewhat regularly: Community managers are under pressure to justify what they do to peers and bosses that don’t really see or understand what tasks make up their day. Almost all the community managers we talk to struggle with ways to maintain or increase engagement. WordPress Admin. MORE >>

These organizations understand that using social technologies successfully requires both business process adaptation and people that understand how to manage these new social environments – at both a tactical and a strategic level. Community management is a critical element of managing networked environments effectively. MORE >>