IOCMA - International Online Community Management Association

Community Managers‘ Community

IOCMA – International Online Community Management Association

Sascha A. Carlin – IOCMA

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Who‘s that guy?

• Sascha A. Carlin.• Class of 1980.• 6+ years of Community Management with

Software AG, phpBB, T-Online et al.• Background in Library and Information Sciences.• After some time in web development now with a

publisher as Community Manager.

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What is currently going on?

• 30+ professional Community people signed up since November 19th.

• We are collaborativly working on a mind mapdepicting topics and tasks CM are involved in.

• The mind map is accompanied by a wiki withresources and notes to the map‘s topics.

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What, Why, Who, Where, When

• Single best (?) resource for professional Community Managers.

• Because we need & deserve a place of our own.

• Community Managers from all around the world.

• Online via mailing list and website.

• We just started.

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What: A Community for ourselves.

• Things on their way– Mailing list– Website– Resources– Network

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What: A Community for ourselves.

• Things to come– Conferences, Local

Groups, Chats– Lobbying– Educational guidelines aka

How To Become A CM aka Mentoring

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What: A Community for ourselves.

Your ideas?

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Why: We deserve it

• Connect to peers.• Discuss professional

challanges.• Get advice to put directly

to work.• We build communities –

Now let‘s build our own.

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Who: Community Managers

• People who create and maintain online communities of any kind.

• Some of us go by other titles: Product Manager, Project Manager, CustomerRelationship Manager, Marketing Manager, …

• Do you use the Internet to allow others to connect, discuss, share? Then you areone of us.

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Where: How to find IOCMA

• http://iocma.org/• Access to the mailing list

and ressources.• The place to connect,

network, collaborate and share.

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When: The train is moving

• Spread the word, inform your peers, discuss it with friends.

• Join today and helpcreating IOCMA.

• Join tomorrow and stand on the shoulders of giants.

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Next Steps

Gain momentum.

Shape IOCMA‘sfuture form.