September '09 News - with a lot of highlights. Events, lots of jobs, a new partner and a free social media guide.

Dear Community,
 
On Monday, we sent out our Newsletter for September '09. We had so much to share that not everything fit into the newsletter - for example, we didn't mention our redesign - we have a new logo!
 
Below are our current news for the month of September 2009. 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).
 
 
1. Welcome to our Latest Members!
2. Featured Event: 2nd Annual Digital Media Seminar - receive a €1,000 discount!
3. Events Happening in the Community Sector this Month
4. The 5 Most Recent Jobs
5. Top 5 Most Read Items this Month
6. Recent Popular Discussion Topics
7. Social Media for Business Guide - free for our members!
8. Welcoming our new Partners: Forum One Networks and Online Community Research Network
9. 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 month of August. Welcome to The Moderator Community! August has been a crazy month for us, with more new members signing up than ever before. 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 over 80 new members since our last newsletter:
 
Brett Hodges, Community Manager and Owner of Rightpet.com, from the United States
 
Bhanuprakash K, Community Enthusiast and Social Media Strategist, from India
 
Michael Chin, Community Manager and SVP Marketing at Kickapps, from the United States
 
Bert van Meel, Community Manager at Just Airborne, from the Netherlands
 
Matt Owen, Community Manager at Liverpool FC, from the United Kingdom
 
Joseph Bowers, Community Manager at Young Presidents' Organization & World Presidents Organization, from the United States
 
Robert Stanke, Community Manager at Life Time Fitness, from the United States
 
Lars Gugig, Community Manager at Cardlovers, from Sweden
 
Silke Schippmann, Community Manager at XING, from Germany
 
 
 
2. Featured Event: 2nd Annual Digital Media Seminar in Barcelona - receive a €1,000 discount!
 
Great news if you have not registered yet, the organizers have just offered us a special last minute discount for The Moderator Community members. The new price is 995EUR! This Seminar is designed to help any professional involved in on-line and mobile Marketing & Communications, to learn through expert, end-user and practitioner presentations on how best to leverage these forms of Digital Media to both enhance marketing and communications practices.
 
Speakers: Saatchi & Saatchi, Google, Facebook, Coca Cola, Adidas, Telefonica-O2, Co-tweet ...
 
Date & Place: 16th & 17th September 2009, in Barcelona, Spain
 
Details: http://www.themoderatorcommunity.com/event/2nd-annual-digital-media-seminar
 
Discount: Members of The Moderator Community receive a special 1000€ last minute discount to the event and only pay 995€ entry fee!
 
How to register: Just enter the code “LQP4“ into the subject when registering at the site.
 
 
 
3. Events Happening in the Community Sector this Month
 
Social Media for Government Forum, Chicago, IL, USA, September 14-17
 
Social Media Forum, Hamburg, Germany, September 15
 
PR 2.0 Forum, Hamburg, Germany, September 15
 
LIFT: The B2B Social Commerce Summit, Atlanta, GA, USA, September 15-16
 
Community & Marketing Summit, Hamburg, Germany, September 16-17 (with discounts for our members!)
(Meet our CEO Maria Sipka who will be speaking about the Monetization of Social Networks!)
 
2nd Annual Digital Media Seminar, Barcelona, Spain, September 16-17 (look out for the €1,000 discount!)
 
OMMA Global: New York, NY, USA, September 21
 
Social Media: Risks and Rewards, New York, NY, USA, September 22
 
Social Networking Wolrd Forum Asia, Singapore, September 22
 
PICNIC 09, Amsterdam, Netherlands, September 23
 
Social Networking Conference 2009, London, UK, September 24
 
Brand Community FORUM, Hamburg, Germany, September 29
 
SIME Helsinki, Finnland, September 30
 
SIME Copenhagen, Denmark, October 8
 
 
 
4. The 5 Most Recent Jobs
 
Customer Service Representative at Habbo UK, Remote from UK (full time or part time)
 
Community Manager at Station54 in Berlin, Germany (full time)
 
Senior Community Manager (various languages) at PokerStrategy.com in Gibraltar (full time)
 
Community Manager for Online Games at Meteor in West Hollywood, CA, USA (full time)
 
French Community Manager at NCSoft in Seattle, USA (full time)
 
 
Check out our job section in collaboration with Monster for more jobs in the online community and social media space!
 
 
 
5. Top 5 Most Read Items this Month
 
Social Media Planning: A simple & easy to use spreadsheet, shared by one of our members
 
Social Media - Strategy over tools (Part 1)
 
Social Media - Just a Fad?
 
Facebook Friends for Sale: This time it's not a game
 
The Fans Know Best
 
 
 
6. Recent Popular Discussion Topics
 
Can you help out fellow community members with your expertise on online communities and groups?
 
Joseph Bowers would like to know what a proper moderator-to-community ratio would be
 
Mohammad Al-Ubaydli is wondering how clinics could best monitor online communities
 
Angus Parker poses an interesting question: How do you weave a tighter community?
 
For Spanish speakers: Marco Ripanti would like to get your opinion on an article about online identity.
 
A much discussed business idea: Would you buy Facebook friends? Do bought "friends" have a business value?
 
 
 
7. Social Media for Business Guide - free for our members!
 
As part of our research over the last few months, we created a social media guide for businesses. The guide includes advice on engaging in social media, with an emphasis on using social media for listening. It also features a categorized recommended reading list, a list of social media case studies, and a list of social media listening tools with explanations on each one.
 
Click here to download the guide.
 
 
 
8. Welcoming our new Partners: Forum One Networks and Online Community Research Network
 
We are striving to present to you the most interesting and valuable content. A few months ago we reached out to Bill Johnston and Heather Virga from Forum One Networks.Last month we were happy announcing our partnership.
 
Their dedicated team creates valuable studies around the community sector and we´d encourage you to visit their community of world´s leading online professionals.
 
Read more about Forum One Networks and the Online Community Research Network (OCRN) here.
 
 
9. 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, enjoy the end of your summer (or winter, if you're on the other side of the world!), 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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