[Barbara]

Greetings everyone! I am a Project Manager hoping to transition into Community Management. For many years, I have unofficially been a community manager because I've been running enterprise forums, moderating live chat channels, facilitating collaborative events between client and vendors, incorporating video for training, and building infrastructure to support these solutions. I didn't realize there was a whole profession dedicated to it until this year. I'm hoping to learn how one transitions into a dedicated community management position because that is one of my passions. New media and Sustainability are my other passions. My ideal job would be setting up new media to support a community for sustainability and then managing that community.

~Barbara

[Sue]

Barbara, on 08 December 2009 - 07:53 AM, said:

Greetings everyone! I am a Project Manager hoping to transition into Community Management. For many years, I have unofficially been a community manager because I've been running enterprise forums, moderating live chat channels, facilitating collaborative events between client and vendors, incorporating video for training, and building infrastructure to support these solutions. I didn't realize there was a whole profession dedicated to it until this year. I'm hoping to learn how one transitions into a dedicated community management position because that is one of my passions. New media and Sustainability are my other passions. My ideal job would be setting up new media to support a community for sustainability and then managing that community.

~Barbara

Hi Barbara, its nice to meet you.

Like yourself I had been involved with online communities for many years and didn't realize until about 12 months ago that what I was doing actually had a name, other than jack of all trades

I've tried to add some resources as I've found them (actually need to get cracking and put some more on the list.) Twitter is also a great way of connecting with Community Managers. I don't know if you are on Twitter, but if you are check out my profile, where I've added a list of Community managers.