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As of Friday, I am no longer the Community Manager at PicApp. While the idea of the job was amazing, the end result just didn’t fit what I was looking for. I still think PicApp is a great product, and I wish them all the success in the world, but I felt more like another [...]

Deb, a good friend of mine online, has recently announced her own Community Manager position with BlogTalkRadio, which only furthers how I feel about blogging as a career and the transferrable skills that come with it. I’ve been saying for some time now as blogging reaches the main stream more full time, salaried gigs are [...]

Gary is very wise, and I hope you will all check out this great video. As I continue as Community Manager for PicApp, I constantly am trying to assess how much I have done, who is listening, how can we grow the community, and watching Gary Vaynerchuk’s video put me at ease, and opened my [...]

When I started my new job as Community Manager for PicApp, I knew it would take up a fair bit of my time, especially since it isn’t a job I am completely familiar with. I love to talk, I love to connect with bloggers, but I don’t think of myself as a public relations person. [...]

One thing that keeps popping up lately is how different people expect communities to rise up and work together. Communities are hard to build. They don’t happen over night, and you can’t force them. I have been part of many forums since connecting to the Internet, and very few have been able to sustain themselves [...]