December 2009: The Latest Events and Jobs, and our Top 10 Most Popular Items of the Year

Dear Community,
 
First of all - Happy new year!
 
Below is the newsletter for the month of December that we sent out before the new year. If you are not  receiving our newsletter yet but would like to in the future, you may subscribe in your profile settings (Go to your profile --> Edit --> My Newsletters and select the monthly newsletter) .
 
Have a great rest of the week, and a great start to the new year. We look forward to sharing many more discussions and insights on online communities with you!
 
Snowy winter greetings from Germany
Edwina
 
 
1. Welcome to our Latest Members!
2. Events Happening in the Community Sector this Month
3. The 5 Most Recent Jobs
4. Top 10 Most Read Items of the Year
5. Report on Spanish Online Communities
6. Our First Moderator Community Get Together
7. A little note from the Team
 
 
1. Welcome to our Latest Members!
 
To finish the year on a high note, we'd like to extend a warm welcome to all new members who signed up in the last few weeks. Welcome to The Moderator Community! Please feel free to tap into the community with your questions and post them in one of our groups. Also, we encourage you to add your own blog articles (or those of your favorite bloggers) to our resource section and promote your community or group in your profile.
 
Welcome to all of our new members! Here are just a few who signed up since our last newsletter:
 
Jurr ter Horst, Group Moderator from the Netherlands
 
Indigo Mertel, Community Manager at East River Community on Secondlife, from Italy
 
James Arnold, Community Enthusiast and Manager at Lumin Creative, from the USA
 
Federico Imparatta, Community Manager at Startups.com, from the USA
 
Jonathan Atkinson, Community Manager at Jagex Games Studios, from the UK
 
 
 
2. Events Happening in the Community Sector this Month
 
Here is our monthly overview of events in the community sector. If you think we're missing an important event, feel free to add it to our events section!
 
Social Fresh, Nashville, Tennessee, USA, January 11
 
PluggedIn NYC, New York, NY, USA, January 12
 
Social Integration, New York, NY, USA, January 13
 
Social Networking Conference 2010, Miami, FL, USA, January 27-29
 
 
 
3. The 5 Most Recent Jobs
 
Social Media Manager at Discovery Communications, in Silver Spring, MD, USA
 
Online Community Marketing Manager at Activagers, Remote from Europe
 
Manager, European Communications at Facebook in London, UK
 
Director, Social Networking Practice at Opinion Research Corporation in Princeton, NJ, USA
 
Director, Social Media at Travelers.com in Hartford, CT, USA
 
 
Check out our job section in collaboration with Monster for more jobs in the online community and social media space! Our job section is becoming very active, so have a look if you're on the job hunt. If you have a job to offer, we encourage you to add it - it's free!
 
 
 
4. Top 10 Most Read Items of the Year
 
Usually, we give you the Top 5 Most Read Items of the Month here. As this is our last newsletter of the year, we thought it would be nice to review the year a little - so here they are, the Top 10 Most Popular Items of the Year!
 
1. Community Manager Compensation
 
2. 10 Ways to Measure Social Media Success
 
3. 3 Social Media Case Studies for the Pharmaceutical Industry
 
4. Women Leading Women's Communities Who Twitter
 
5. 7 Key Insights into Creating an Effective Group on LinkedIn
 
6. Facebook Friends for Sale: This Time it's not a Game
 
7. The 8 Basic Rules for Getting Involved in Social Media
 
8. How to Identify Fake Profiles
 
9. Social Media Planning: A Simple & Easy to Use Spreadsheet
 
10. 20 Do's and Dont's of Successful Group Moderation
 
 
 
5. Report on Spanish Online Communities
 
In our July Newsletter, we invited you to participate in a survey on Spanish online communities. Miguel Cornejo Castro and his team at Macuarium Networks have now published the resulting report: Estudio de Comunidades Online 2009. We invite you to check out the results on their site! Currently, there is only a Spanish version - we'll notify you on our blog as soon as an English version is available.
 
 
6. Our First Moderator Community Get Together
 
On December 2nd, we had our first little Meetup with Moderator Community members in Barcelona. Although the meeting was organized and announced on short notice, we still had a nice little group of community managers, developers, and social media experts from all over the world. As the meeting was informal, there was no agenda - discussions around the table included how to market your online community, the importance of managing your professional online identity and white label platforms for online communities.
 
Thanks to everyone who attended, it was great to meet you in person! We hope to organize more Meetups in the future, and are looking forward to getting to know more members of our community.
 
 
7. A little note from the Team
 
Well, this is it - our last newsletter for 2009. It's been almost one year since The Moderator Community launched. We had a great year and really enjoyed managing and developing this community. Thank you for supporting the community - all the registrations, posts and comments are always encouraging, and give us reason to continue investing our effort into this project we truly believe in.
 
Thanks for a great year! We wish you a happy festive season and a happy new year!
 
 
We're looking forward to continue discovering the world of online communities with you!
 
On behalf of The Moderator Community Team,
Edwina Dendler
(Community & Content Manager)
 
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