October 2009 News: Google Wave, Legal Matters for Communities, Event Discounts & Lots of Jobs

Dear Community,
 
Another month has gone by and here are our latest news. 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) .
 
Enjoy the rest of your week!
 
Edwina
 
 
Contents
 
1. Welcome to our Latest Members!
2. Events Happening in the Community Sector this Month
3. The 5 Most Recent Jobs
4. Top 5 Most Read Items this Month
5. Recent Discussions
6. Legal Issues for Online Communities: Let's create a resource collection!
7. Review and Rate The Moderator Community for the Groundswell Awards
 
 
 
1. Welcome to our Latest Members!
 
We'd like to extend a warm welcome to all new members who signed up during the last month. Welcome to The Moderator Community! Please feel free to turn to the community with your questions and post them in one of our groups. Also, we encourage you to add your blog articles 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 of the many new members since our last newsletter:
 
Matt Rhodes, Community Expert at FreshNetworks, from the UK
 
Philipp Sidler, Community Manager at Guzuu.com, from Switzerland
 
Marc-Antoine Ross, Web Developer and Community Manager, from Canada
 
Ferran Güell, Community Enthusiast at Privalia, from Spain
 
Gaby Rosario, Founder of The Storyboard from, South Africa.
 
Angela Connor, Community Manager at Golo, from the USA
 
 
 
2. Featured Event: SOMESSO Zurich
 
We're very happy to announce that SOMESSO Zurich is offering a 20% discount on tickets for members of The Moderator Community! Please go to our event section for the discount code.
 
About the SOMESSO Zurich conference: "SOMESSO (http://www.somesso.com) the recognized neutral platform for corporate stakeholders to explore, share and apply the tools and thinking necessary to benefit from the potential of social media disclosed that this years Zurich conference will take place on November 2 and 3, 2009 at the SwissRe Centre for Global Dialogue. After the second successful conference, which was held at the Emirates Stadium in London, SOMESSO decided to come back to Zurich and further support the advancement of local and (inter)national businesses into the adoption of social media. A special focus is put on: Leveraging Corporate Social Media in the Finance Sector."
 
 
 
3. 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!
 
Glocal: Inside Social Media, Skopje, Macedonia, October 15-17
 
Social Media: Putting it to Work for Your Organization, New York, NY, USA, October 15-16
 
Blog World & New Media Expo, Las Vegas, NV, USA, October 15-17
 
Web 2.0 Summit, San Francisco, CA, USA, October 20-22
 
Social Media in Healthcare & Wellness, Madrid, Spain, October 21
 
TWTRCON DC 09, Washington, DC, USA, October 22
 
The Social Media Business Forum, Durham, NC, USA, October 23
 
TribeCon, New Orleans, LA, USA, October 28-30
 
SOMESSO Zurich 2009, Zurich, Switzerland, November 2-3 (click here for your Moderator Community discount!)
 
Winning with Social Media - ARF Industry Leader Forum, New York, NY, USA, November 3
 
Geekend 2009, Savannah, GA, USA, November 6-8
 
Social Media World Forum North America, Santa Clara, CA, USA, November 9-10
 
SIME Stockholm, Sweden, November 11-12
 
 
 
3. The 5 Most Recent Jobs
 
Brand Advocate Community Manager for an Anti Virus Software Vendor in London, UK (full time)
 
Blog Editor for an Anti Virus Software Vendor in London, UK (full time)
 
Social Media Strategist at Privalia in Barcelona, Spain (full time)
 
Community Manager (Sales) at StudiVZ in Berlin, Germany (full time)
 
Community Manager at FreshBooks in Toronto, Canada (full time)
 
 
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 5 Most Read Items this Month
 
Google Wave: 5 Ways it Could Change the Web
 
Staffing: What's the proper moderator-to-community ratio?
 
What Network Stage is Your Community?
 
7  Ways to Make Sites More Social
 
When an Influential Community Member Leaves
 
 
 
5. Recent Discussions
 
As Google started opening the invitations to Google Wave, this has also become a Hot Topic in the Moderator Community... Our fellow member Marc-Antoine has offered to share his invites with members of the Moderator Community. We´d be curious to hear more about your first impressions and thoughts on how Google Wave will evolve.
 
 
6. Legal Issues for Online Communities: Let's create a resource collection!
 
Since we've heard a lot of concerns about legal issues for online communities recently, we have started putting together a collection of resources related to legal matters - links to government websites, blogs about online law, specific cases related to online communities etc. It would be great if we could collaborate on this list as a community! If you have any links to share, or know any specialists in the area, please add them to the list by posting a comment. 
 
 
7. Review and Rate The Moderator Community for the Groundswell Awards
 
We entered The Moderator Community for this year's Groundswell Awards. These awards aim to recognize the "excellent and effective use of social technologies to advance an organizational or corporate goal". Whilst we are still at the beginning of our journey with The Moderator Community, we do think this community has a lot of potential to support, engage and inspire community managers, group moderators and social media experts.
 
We'd like to encourage you to have a look at the Groundswell website, where you can view, rate and review all the entrants for this year's awards in various categories.
 
You can find the details of our entry on our blog and on the Groundswell website.
 
 
Thanks for reading, and 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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