The Moderator Community serves as a gateway for community managers and owners, community experts and moderators.
A content rich gateway for community managers, moderators & social media enthusiasts!
What is The Moderator Community?
What's our Mission?
Our mission is to serve community managers, moderators and experts interested in sharing and learning from each other. We aim for an environment of exchange, collaboration and learning among peers - community enthusiasts with similar interests.
Who are the Members?
The Moderator Community reaches out to all the moderators, community experts, community managers and enthusiasts out there.
The community is open to anyone who wants to share their experience and know-how and who is eager to learn from others. The Moderator Community is a network of personal trust, where you can seek advice from others and where you have the possibility to present yourself and increase your visibility amongst your peers.
Which Features can you find on The Moderator Community?
Forums and Groups:
Discuss, share with and learn from other experts, community managers and moderators. We invite you to participate here.
Job Board:
Access and post job offerings in the online community sector here.
Resource Centre:
Read, discuss and share the latest news, developments, and trends in public and corporate social media here. You find blog and news articles, white papers, videos, presentations and more.
Events:
You´ll find an overview of major events relating to online communities here.
Social Network:
Connect with other moderators, community managers or potential partners for future conversation.
The Moderator Community is an open gateway for all. We do not aim to “lock” our users into the community. Think of it as an exhibition show: We provide the place for your “stand” at an exhibition show helping you to present yourself and giving you access to exchange with others. Our content is open to everyone and our users are directly channeled back to where the content is available. e.g. the blog or the place where the podcasts sits.
Why did we create The Moderator Community?
We’ve created The Moderator Community because there is no independent central place serving the needs of group moderators and community managers. You are the key people who actually keep the communities alive and active. However, the majority hardly receives any support from the community platforms. That's why we’re trying to create “a one to go to place” to find good advice and relevant information with “one click”.
There exist so much content on the web. It's highly fragmented and spread all over the place - you need to invest a bunch of time to find information serving your needs. This is what we are trying to change – helping you to find all the information you are looking for in the field of online communities.
The Moderator Community offers a gateway for online community stakeholders to connect and exchange information, know-how and experience providing you with easy access to valuable resources. In our groups and forums you will find a place where you can discuss all topics related to online communities.
Who are the people behind The Moderator Community?
We are some enthusiastic community people who came together from all over the world to make this community happening - Germany, Australia, Belgium, USA, India, Italy and more – with one purpose: to connect and share our passion with you!
In order of appearance, we are…
Australian Community Girl
Maria Sipka, Co-Founder and CEO
Maria used to work at Xing, the European based social network for professionals, where she developed a strong passion for managing communities and moderating groups. She created successful strategies for member acquisition and member retention for the community. She built one of Xing’s largest communities called "Global Business Women” which grew up to 10.000 members within one year. During this time she discovered the need for The Moderator Community since there was no central independent place to go to when searching for information and advice in the field of online communities.
Community "Deern" from Hamburg
Daniela Arens, Marketing & Community Manager
Months before we actually launched The Moderator Community, Daniela reached out to countless community managers, moderators and experts for personal interviews. It was very important for to us to find out what their needs really are and how The Moderator Community can create a real benefit for them. Further she is responsible for all partner inquiries, content and communication around The Moderator Community. She is a real people person and has successfully set up her own communities and groups within the last years. If you have any questions or ideas for improvement she will be always happy to help.
Researcher with German precision
Edwina Dendler, Content Manager
Edwina is our content expert. She has spent months compiling resources, finding interesting books and white papers and reading through hundreds of blogs to find the ones that are relevant to The Moderator Community. As a former research assistant at IESE business school, she's an academic research geek who even wrote her master thesis on online communities. She's a moderator for several online groups, like the FIFA World Cup 2006 Alumni Group
Our Kiwi on Twitter
Louise Dancer from New Zealand, Intern
Louise is our newest team member. She sources us many community jobs, event links and tracks down new content every day of the week to share with our members at The Moderator Community. She is also responsible for our presence on Twitter providing up-to-the-minute links to new posts and other insights from both our members and the social media world at large. She has a post graduate degree in Mass Communications and Journalism and is super excited about the evolution of social media and the opportunities it provides across the globe.
This community has been developed on Drupal and we would like to express a big thank you to Pollenizer for their support in developing the site!
Would you like to collaborate?
In order to provide as much information as possible, we collaborate and partner with other moderator communities and content providers to aggregate knowledge and experience. If you are interested in partnering with us, please reach out.
Things you can do...
... Join a Discussion
... Submit a Resource
... Post or Apply for a Job
... Add or Attend an Event
... Provide Feedback
... Invite a Friend
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