If you’re interested in jobs for this space, please read the “on the move” posts.
Understanding how companies staff, organize, and prepare for social media/computing is one of my top interests personally and professionally. Having been a former Online Community Manager at Hitachi Data Systems, I want to make sure companies do it right. I’m often asked which companies have one of the two emerging roles, (companies love to benchmark against their peers) so I’ve decided to start a list, not only to back my research, but also for those wanting to show to their companies “hey this is starting to happen for real”.
The first role is the Social Computing Strategist, the second is the Community Manager, although the titles vary, and sometimes it’s a part-time function, there’s clearly a trend as corporations staff.
It’s important to note, that in the end, these skills (the ability to communicate online) will disperse and grow to many employees. Generation Y comes to us with these abilities built it as a “digital natives”– yet the need to organize will still occur, it’s a knee jerk reaction to every corporation.
This list, which I realize is going to be a lot of work, will be an ongoing index of these professionals, I will only do this for a limited time (probably till end of 2008, or until I can’t scale).
Requirements
Unlike a wiki, I will be vetting this list to ensure quality. Kindly leave a comment but first read the requirements:
1) This is your full time (and current) job even if you have a variation on the title –you are not a consultant. Sure, you do more than social media alone, but the organization realizes you’re on point as the expert.
2) You’re at a large corporation, in fact, a Fortune 5000 company, or you’ve over 1,000 employees. I can easily list out thousands of community managers at startups, but I’m trying to demonstrate how large corporations are moving forward.
3) Provide reference: You must provide your title, and a link to your blog/profile/linkedin that indicates your role and title, perhaps a post that announced your title or intentions.
4) Indicate which role you are, a Strategist (inward focused) Community Manager (externally focused), or Research of Product focused (developing a social media product/service for sale)
5) This is primarily for external efforts with customers and prospects –not internal
6) If you do not meet the requirements to meet this list, you can create your own, and I’ll prominently link to it. Update: April 2009, Ted has created a list for community managers that focus on internal communities.
I’ve you’re a social media professional (at a smaller company, agency, startup) I’ve a list for everyone on my “on the move” posts.
Ongoing List of Social Computing Strategists at Enterprise Corporations
The Social Media Strategist, whose job is to lead the internal charge, develops the program, gains resources, convinces management, and measures success.
Key differentiator for this group? They are primarily internally focused program managers.
Technology
Ken Kaplan, Broadcast and New Media Manager, Global Communications Group at Intel Corporation Bob Pearson, Vice President, Communities & Conversations at Dell Chris James’s Experience, Social Media & Community Strategist, Advanced Micro Devices Gunjan Rawal, Worldwide marketing manager at Intel Software Network Adam Christensen, Social Media Manager, IBM Corporation Bryan Rhoads, Sr. Digital Strategist at Intel Corporation Brian Ellefritz, Sr. Mgr, Social Media Marketing at Cisco Systems Todd Watson, Social Media and Search Marketing Manager, IBM Software Group Rawn Shaw, CoE Lead – Social Software Programs & Enablement at IBM Vanina Delobelle, Global Product Director, Monster Jeanette Gibson, Director of New Media, Cisco Systems Karen Snyder, New Media Program Manager, Verisign Marc Sirkin, Sr. Marketing Manager – The Microsoft CIO Network at Microsoft LaSandra Brill, Manager, Web & Social Media Marketing at Cisco Systems Tac Anderson, Social Media – CRM – Search, HP Adam Gartenberg, Team Lead, Social Marketing Initiatives at IBM Christopher Haro’s Experience, Social Media Manager, Premiere Global Services Justin Kestelyn, OTN Editor-in-Chief, Oracle Richard Binhammer, Senior Manager, Dell Deanna Bell, New Media Program Manager, Cisco Dave Mastronardi, Program Manager / Implementation Architect at Raytheon Jamie Pappas, Social Media Strategist, Evangelist, and Enterprise Community Manager, EMC Michael Brito, Global Social Media Manager, Intel Annie Rodkins, Social Media Manager, Intel Lorna Li, Web Marketing Manager , Social Networking & Social Media, SalesForce Kelly Colgan, Media Relations Specialist, Schneider Electric Dan Schawbel, Social Media Specialist, EMC Bob Duffy, Senior Social Media Strategist, Intel Mark Yolton, Senior Vice President, SAP Community Network, SAP Steve Mann, GVP, Social Media & Customer Experience Strategy, SAP Bob Duffy, Senior Social Media Strategist, Intel Fred “Fritz” Alberti, Senior Manager of Social Media, Salem Communications Tilly McLain, Community Manager, MyBlogLog, Yahoo Diane Davidson, Sr. Manager of Customer Success and Community Program, Cisco, the WebEx Technology group Rick Reich, Sr. Mgr, Social Media & Technologies, Citrix Systems Rachel Makool, Sr. Director, Community Development, eBay Electronics
Mark Squires, Head of Social Media Communications, Nokia Marcie Cohen, Sr. PR Manager, Sony Electronics Hospitality
Cassandra Jeyaram, Social Marketing Manager for InterContinental Hotels Group Automotive
Chris Barger, Director, Global Communications Technology, General Motors Scott Monty, Digital & Multimedia Communications Manager, Ford Motor Company Christopher Barger, GM Director of Global Communications Technology, General Motors Sylvia Marino, Executive Director Community & Social Media Operations, Edmunds.com Inc. Airline
Paula Berg, Public relations specialist, Nuts about Southwest Blog, Southwest Airlines Brian Lusk, Manager Customer Communication, Nuts about Southwest Blog, Southwest Airlines Morgan Johnston, Manager Corporate Communication, JetBlue Airways Alma Dayawon, Electronic Communications Manager, The Boeing Company Aerospace
Ariel Waldman, NASA CoLab program coordinator Finance and Insurance
Ed Terpening, VP of Social Media Marketing at Wells Fargo Matthew Anchin, Vice President, Online Communications, American Express Christine Morrison, Social Media Marketing Manager at Intuit’s Consumer Group Scott Wilder, GM – Online Communities at Small Business Division, Intuit Paula Drum, Vice President, Marketing, H&R Block Alan Edgett, Sr. Director of Advanced Marketing Systems, Experian Interactive Justin Gibbs, Online Marketing Strategist, Manager, Experian Consumer Direct Annalie Killian, Director of Collaboration, Intranet, Communication and Innovation at AMP Shawn Morton, Senior Consultant for Social Media at Nationwide Insurance Matt Anchin, Vice President, Online Communications, American Express Matthew Lehman ,Web Experience Director, Progressive Insurance Consumer Products
Jim Deitzel, Sr. eMarketing Manager at Newell Rubbermaid Lindsay Lebresco, Public Relations & Social Media Manager at Graco Children’s Products/Newell Rubbermaid Bert DuMars, Vice President E-Business & Interactive Marketing, Newell Rubbermaid Retail
Todd Feldman, Sr Manager, Emerging Marketing Channels, Circuit City Stores, Inc. Stephanie Pike, Manager, Content and Community, Circuit City Stores, Inc. Gary Koelling, Sr Mgr Social Technology, Best Buy Steve Bendt Sr. Manager of Social Technology, Best Buy Denise Garciano, Online Content & Community Specialist, PacSun John Andrews Emerging Media Sr. Manager at Wal-Mart Stores, Inc Research
Yemil Martinez, Director, New Media Marketing and Web Strategy, Institute for International Research (IIR) a subdivision of Informa Michele Frost, Director, Web Marketing at Forrester Research Heathcare
Marcus Frank, UX Strategist & Creative Director, National Cancer Institute Burt Lum, Business Relationship Manager, HMSA Shwen Gwee, Lead Business Analyst, Health Informatics and New Media at Vertex Pharmaceuticals Media Gaming and Entertainment
Jessica Baker, Marketing Manager, Interactive Media, American Greetings Interactive Michael Hall, Community Product manager, ABC.com Charles Miller, Director, Inbound E-mail Operations and Blog Outreach, DIRECTV, Inc. Eby Ghafarian, Manager, Product Engagement & Community Development at Hachette Filipacchi Media (Elle.com, caranddriver.com, roadandtrack.com) Jean Fahmy Director, Director, Digital strategies, Transcontintental Media Jason Richman, Director, Digital Product Strategy, NBC Universal Daniel Thornton, Community Marketing Manager at Bauer Consumer Media Charles E. Miller, Director, Inbound E-mail Operations and Blog Outreach, DIRECTV, Inc.
Agency
Shiv Singh, Vice President, Social Media & Global Strategic Initiatives, Avenue A Razorfish Brad Mays, Senior Vice President (Social Media), Fleishman-Hillard Jon Burg, Emerging Channels Specialist with Digitas
Services
James Davidson, Web Strategist, Creative Services & Branding, Manpower
Ongoing List of Community Managers at Enterprise Corporations
The Community Manager, who’s job is to primarily be a community advocate is a social media user, and is externally focused, they are primarily the face to the online community. As companies scale, I expect to see these types or roles appear often for each product group at larger companies, they often report directly to the strategist or at least have a dotted line.
Key differentiator for this group? They are primarily an externally (customer/community) facing role.
Technology
Lionel Menchaca, Community Manager, Dell Anton Chiang, Web Communities Manager, Juniper Networks Lacy Kemp, Social Media Communications Specialist at RealNetworks Stephen Spector, Sr. Program Manager, Xen.org Community, Citrix Michael Sandoval, Global Communities Manager, Texas Instruments Vishal Ganeriwala, Sr. Manager of Citrix Developer Network, Citrix Amie Paxton, Channel Community Manager, Dell Angela LoSasso, Community & blogs strategist, HP Tom Diederich, Social Media/Web Community Manager, Cadence Systems Bill Pearson Bill, Manager, Intel Software Network, Intel Josh Hilliker, Community Manager of the vPro Expert Center, Intel Robyn Tippins, Community Manager, Yahoo! Developer Network at Yahoo! John Summers, Community Manager at NetApp Mario Sundar, Community Evangelist at LinkedIn Tom Ablewhite, Community Manager, Thomson Reuters Craig Cmehil, Community Manager for the SAP Developer Network Lou Ordorica, Social Media Producer at Sun Microsystems John Earnhardt, Senior manager, media relations and blogger in chief, Cisco Systems Deirdre Walsh, Community Manager at National Instruments Rachel Luxemburg, Community Manager at Adobe Aaron Tersteeg, Software Developer Community, Intel Josh Bancroft, Software Developer Community, Intel Jeff Moriarty, Software Developer Community, Intel Cathy Ma, Yahoo Community Manager, Yahoo Europe Shashi Bellamkonda, Social Media Swami , Network Solutions Ian Kennedy, Product Guy, MyBlogLog, Community Manager, Yahoo David Kim, Manager, Online Marketing and Communities at Symantec Marilyn Pratt, Community Evangelist, SAP Labs Scott Jones, Community Manager and Content Strategist, SDN at SAP Labs Badsah Mukherji, Sr. Community Manager at VMware Jon Mountjoy, Community Manager & Editor-In-Chief at Salesforce Senior Director, OTN & Developer Programs Oracle Jake Kuramoto, Oracle Apps Labs, Oracle USA Kelly Feller, Web Marketing Manager leading the IT Community site Open Port, Intel Erica Kuhl, Sr. Producer & Community Manager, Salesforce.com Community Aaron Tersteeg, Community Manager (Multi-core Development) Intel Software Network, Intel Jeff Moriarty, Community Manager (mobility) for the Intel Software Network, Intel Alison Bolen Editor, Sascom voices blog, SAS Melissa Daniels, Community Manager for All-Star group for Yahoo! Messenger, Yahoo! Amy Barton, Strategic Programs Manager, Intel Software Network, Intel Holly Valdez, Community Manager, Cisco, the WebEx Technology group Electronics
Ray Haddow, Blogger Outreach, Nokia Charlie Schick, Lead on Nokia corporate blog, Nokia Media, Gaming, Entertainment
Kellie Parker, Online Community Manager at Sega
Kristopher Shaw, Community Manager at MTV Networks UK EM Stock, Senior Community Manager at Sony Online Entertainment Katie Hamlin, Community Manager, Fodors.com, Random House Justin Korthof, Community Manager at Microsoft David Cushman, Digital Development Director, Bauer Consumer Media UK Laurent Courtines, Community Manager at Games.com AOL Research
John Cass, Online Community Manager, Forrester Research Finance
Scott Moore, Senior Online Community Manager at Schwab Learning Jose Antonio Gallego, Community Manager at BBVA (Spain) Amy Worley, Director, Marketing Manager, HR Block Fran Sansalone, Community Manager for the Open Calais Web Service, Thomson Reuters Automotive
Karen Spiegler, Community Manager, Edmunds.com, Inc. Alicia Dorset, Blog editor, General Motors Retail
Slaton Carter, Online Community Development Manager, Whole Foods Market Winnie Hsia, Online Community Moderator, Whole Foods Market Consumer Goods
Jennifer Cisney, Chief Blogger, Kodak Agriculture
Christopher Paton, Social Media Team Lead, Monsanto
Ongoing List of Social Media Researchers and Social Media Product Managers
It’s become evident there are other roles within large enterprises that focus on Social Computing, in fact, these folks are researchers, analyzing online behavior or creating specs for future products. Expect large enterprise software companies to offer these features in their product suites in the coming future.
Key differentiator for this group? They are researching or building social media products that will be brought to market.
Technology
Jonathan Grudin, Principal Researcher, focused on the adoption of emerging (social computing) at Microsoft Marc Davis, Social Media Guru, Yahoo! Corporation Kingsley Joseph, Sr. Manager, Successforce.com & IdeaExchange, SalesForce Jamie Greenly, Product Line Director Salesforce Ideas at Salesforce.com Lawrence Liu, Senior Technical Product Manager for Social Computing, Microsoft SharePoint Frank Gruber, Principal Product Manager for AOL in the social networking & platforms group, AOL
Alan Lepofsky, Senior Strategist at Socialtext Filiberto Selvas, Social Media Strategy Director at Avenue A Razorfish Marty Collins, Sr Product Marketing Manager, Social Media Strategist Windows/Windows Live, Microsoft Matthias Zeller, Group Product Manager, Project Genesis, Adobe Systems Moz Hussain, Director of Product Management, Unified Communications Group, Microsoft Corporation Suzanne Minassian, Product Manager for IBM Lotus Connections, IBM Steven Tedjamulia, Sr. Business Product Manager at Vignette Corporation Dan Truax, General Manager for the Microsoft Server and Tools Online (STO) group, Microsoft Dick Costolo, Social Media, Google
Related Resources
I’ve kick started this list with a few that I know, please be detailed in the comments, as I’ll be reviewing to ensure accuracy. If you’re seeking a job, or wanting to hire folks, start with my “on the move” series of posts. Also see the New PR Wiki list of CEO blog. Shel Israel’s Global Survey of interviews on text and video have stories of many of these folks. Mario Sundar has a list of community mangers of all industries and sizes. Connie Benson left this list of community managers on twitter.
What and How to Submit
First, read the requirements stated above. Then submit Name, Title, Company, Which category (see descriptions), URL to bio that describes body of work. I prefer a link to your LinkedIn account that shows your role, as well as description of social media program or project.
If you’re shy, send me an email at jeremiah_owyang@yahoo.com, subject line should be “social media role” (I get hundreds of emails every day)
Update June 24: Bear with me, this is a major undertaking and I’m reviewing each entry. I also found quite a few comments being withheld by wordpress, I approved the ones I could find (using keywords to filter 25,000 spam comments). Please, carefully read the requirements before submitting, some I cannot add due to volume. If you wanted to create a list for SMB or internal folks, I’m happy to link to it.
Also, someone I respect suggested that this list is ‘outing’ those that may not want to be bombarded by vendors, most of these are submissions, and all records are public and found on LinkedIn. The kickoff list was a handful of people that were cited in public reports, who blog, or were in books. If you don’t want you name on here, simple email me and I’ll have it removed.
July 30th: Over a month since I started this list, it continues to grow and grow. I think we’ve gotten past the major influx, and now just a trickle of users are being added.
Sample:
I’d like to nominate:
Jeremiah Owyang, Online Community Manager, Hitachi Data Systems
(link)
He fits the Community Manager role.
Jeremiah,
I’m the social media communications manager at IBM… which is a kind of hybrid of the two roles you describe. Quite candidly, there are MANY people at IBM involved at many levels in this space (how else would it be at IBM?).
But here you go:
Adam Christensen, Social Media Communications Manager, IBM Corporation
http://www.linkedin.com/in/adamchristensen
Full-time Community Manager at Thomson Reuters.
Specific focus on our client developer network.
http://www.linkedin.com/in/tomablewhite
OK, my computer crashed about the time I submitted this last time… so not sure if it went through or if my computer ate my comment. If not, and the comments are just moderated, forgive the repeat!
I’m the social media manager at IBM. Based on your descriptions of the two roles, it’s a bit of a hybrid between the two. Frankly, there are a lot of people involved in social media at IBM, but at the corporate wide level, you can use my name.
Adam Christensen, Social Media Communications Manager, IBM
http://www.linkedin.com/in/adamchristensen
Hi Jeremiah,
For your list of social computing strategists whose job is to lead the internal charge, develop the program, gain resources, convince management, and measure success, you can add my name:)
Vanina Delobelle, Global Product Director, Monster
http://www.linkedin.com/in/vaninadelobelle
Cheers.
Thanks Dan
Hi Jeremiah,
For your list of Social Computing Strategists whose job is to lead the internal charge, develop the program, gain resources, convince management, and measure success you can add my name 🙂
Vanina Delobelle, Global Product Director, Monster
http://www.linkedin.com/in/vaninadelobelle
Cheers.
Hi Jeremiah,
For some reasons my comment cannot be displayed so I write it again:
Vanina Delobelle, Global Product Director, Monster
http://www.linkedin.com/in/vaninadelobelle
Seems like Intel is taking this seriously. I’ve done searches in LinkedIn, added a few more.
Great resource! A marketing vp at Siemens forwarded me the link just as I’m about to board a flight to give a speech on future work requirements / IT needs for Gen Y. I’ll be sure to pass along the link during my presentation.
Some people are having a hard time posting here, be sure to email me if you can’t comment
WordPress often vets first time commenters.
Thanks for including me in the list, Jeremiah. My actual title at Ford will be Digital & Multimedia Communications Manager
Scott, done.
Please help me to spread the word about this list.
Great list, Jeremiah. We have dedicated social media folks in marketing and communications at Cisco. I am the Director of New Media at Cisco. I report into our SVP of Corporate Communications. My team oversess our online communications (our online press room – http://newsroom.cisco.com) and new media programs (blogging, video, podcasts, virtual worlds, etc.).
Btw – loved your Hawaii pics…I am planning a trip in August and can’t wait!
Best,
Jeanette
Thanks Jeannette, if you’ve any community managers to submit, that would be great also.
Hawaii, oh I miss it.
Great project, Jeremiah! I am Emerging Solutions Lead focused on internal social media strategy at SAP.
Hi Jeremiah, my name is Natalie Hanson, I work at SAP in Global Business Operations. My current title is Director of Emerging Solutions, User Experience, & Portal Operations. I work within a KM competency center that is responsible for enabling sales & marketing employees. Within my part of SAP we are just getting started in this space, but my charter is to build out this area (Emerging Solutions= Social Media). In addition to my 10 years of business experience at SAP, I have a PhD in Anthropology. For fun I manage a couple of online communities at the intersection of applied social sciences & design. Best, Natalie
I’m nominally EIC/Senior Director Oracle Technology Network, but more or less “manage” (if that can be said – oxymoronic) the Oracle Technology end-user community.
Hey Jeremiah –
Thanks for including me on the list! I had to pass off the social media part of my job when I transitioned to product development but I left it in the capable hands of Paula Berg (Public relations specialist) and Brian Lusk (Manager Customer Communication).
Thanks for the shout out!
Angela
Nomination/vote: Justin Kestelyn, OTN Editor-in-Chief and Head Dude, http://www.oracle.com/technology/
Sorry, Justin–just saw this article or I’d have nominated you first. Justin also started the Oracle ACE program which is a network of hand-picked community evangelists. http://www.oracle.com/technology/community/oracle_ace/index.html
I’m the Community Manager for the SAP Developer Network (http://sdn.sap.com) and Marilyn Pratt is the Community Manager for the Business Process Expert Community (http://bpx.sap.com)
Thanks all I updated (Southwest) and added the others.
What about strategists that work on behalf of the Fortune 5000 via agencies (PR, Marketing, and Advertising)? I’m sure there are more of those than internal people.
Jeremiah, props for putting this list out there. I’ve already been friended by one of my peers and hope to connect with others as well. We all appreciate you helping us brand guys build up our skills and networks. Thanks again from all of us here at Cisco.
Jeremiah,
A former colleague of mine Deirdre Walsh is the Community Manager at National Instruments (http://www.ni.com/). Her role includes online strategy , customer user groups and pr and she’s the face for the flagship software product on myspace, facebook, twitter etc. You can find her on twitter as @deirdrewalsh.
Kamran – @kamrans on twitter
Justin
That list would be too large for me to start, this is enough for me to take on. If you wanted to create such a list, please do so and I’ll link to it.
Brian, It’s a pleasure to see you all, looking forward to stopping by, let’s grow together.
Jeremiah – you forgot me! : )
Michael Brito, Global Social Media Manager, Intel
Thanks for adding me to the list! I manage a team of folks and we are responsible for creating and executing Social Media Marketing plans that include things like Facebook, Twitter, Blogging, etc.
I’d also like to nominate the following people:
Norys Trevino, Collaboration Solutions Manager at Cisco
Michael Brito, Social Media Consultant at Intel
Thanks for adding me to the list! There’s actually a team of us here in the Service Provider Marketing group that are focused on creating and executing Social Media Marketing Plans.
Also I’d like to nominate Norys Trevino, Collaboration Solutions Manager at Cisco – http://www.linkedin.com/in/ntrevino
Hi Jeremiah,
I’m the social media strategist at Omniture. I’m on the PR team.
http://twitter.com/brianwatkins
http://www.linkedin.com/in/brianjwatkins
Hi Jeremiah,
I’d like to nominate my client Lindsay Lebresco from Graco Children’s Products.
Lindsay is the PR and Social Media Manager and the lead blogger at the Graco Baby Blog (blog.gracobaby.com).
Here is a link to her LinkedIn profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/lindsaylebresco
And if you Google ‘Graco Blog’ you’ll get an indication of her excellent work!
Hi Jeremiah,
Count me in under “Social Media Researcher” please. I work with Kingsley Joseph at salesforce.com on the Successforce online customer community & social media marketing. My role includes:
– Enterprises social networking
– Social Media Marketing
– Social Media research
– New technology acquisition (social applications)
– Search engine optimization – Social SE)
More info on my LinkedIn profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/lornali
Cheers,
Lorna
Hi Jeremiah (second time I’m trying to post this, apologies if it’s a repeat),
I’d like to nominate my client Lindsay Lebresco, PR and Social Media Manager for Graco Children’s Products.
Graco are a division of Newell Rubbermaid and the launch of their corporate blog earlier this year took the tally of Fortune 500’s blogging to over 10%. Lindsay is the lead blogger for the Graco Baby Blog (blog.gracobaby.com) and manages Graco’s wider social media strategy.
As a proof point, here is her LinkedIn account: http://www.linkedin.com/in/lindsaylebresco
Thanks! Great list!
What about a list of social media strategists at non-profit organizations? That would be an interesting list.
Laura
We could make lists till the cows come home! If you do it, I’ll link to it.
Michael, got you, wasn’t sure if you were a consultant or a full time employee, now we know you’re full-time.
Added!
Hello Jeremiah,
please add me to the Social Media Product Manager list.
Matthias Zeller, Group Product Manager, Project Genesis, Adobe Systems
Links:
http://matthiaszeller.com/blog
http://blogs.adobe.com/mashup
http://www.linkedin.com/in/zeller
Thanks,
Matthias
Earlier this evening, taking a walk through the past fantastic, I spidered Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility (CPSR), as much as anything to get a sense of how such a fine organization withered on the vine. In the last newsletter they commented on how they were having to lay off staff.
The story of my life, watching my peers getting laid off while others made their fortunes.
Some say history is value neutral. *shrug* I say, not alone, that it’s written by the victors.
But then I’m the sort who thinks that “winning” isn’t everything.
cheers
–bentrem
Jeremiah, I am a Community Manager at Adobe. I’m in the Developer Relations group and my current focus is the Adobe User Group program.
This could become the chio pet of a blog post where it keeps growing and growing every day, week, month, year. What I really like about this is that I’m getting to see and meet new colleagues from other companies. I can certainly add more names from Intel like Open Port community maven Kelly Feller, Tools and Approach dynamo Bob Duffy, BlogMamma Annie Rodkins, Software Developer Community wise men Aaron Tersteeg, Josh Bancroft and Jeff Moriarty… But what I see here in the growing list are so many people I’d like to meet in person. Summer wine party at Jeremiah’s?
Ken
I sent you an email, need some additional info. Thanks, it’s so hard to keep track of all that Intel is doing.
Sure, summer wine party at my house for the internets!
Anyone who is going to submit, here’s what I’m looking for
What to Submit
Name, Title, Company, Which category (see descriptions), URL demonstrating body of work
Hi Jeremiah,
You listed me under technology as the IBM New Media Lead, which I was till December last year. I started my own “social media” consulting company called Blackline on January 1, 2008. I cover European clients from Brussels.
I know my former IBM colleague Chris Barger is responsible for new media. You can find his profile here: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/2/a/8a0
Hi Jeremiah!
Loving your list.
I’m Rudy Bachraty, Social Media Guru at Trulia.com
My role focusses on both Inward and Outward social media initiatives and strategies.
About Trulia:
Trulia is the fastest growing real estate site according to Comscore and we recently won the 2008 People’s Voice Webby award.
My online business card:
http://www.retaggr.com/Card/trulia
My Profile on Trulia:
http://www.trulia.com/voices/profile/Real_Estate_Pro-New_York-95271/
My welcome post on Trulia Blog:
http://www.truliablog.com/2008/02/01/rudy-joins-trulia/
Looking forward to learning more about everyone on your list.
Best,
Rudy
Philippe Borremans
Thanks for stopping by, I went off your LinkedIn Profile, I guess I mis-read it or it needs to be updated. I’ll update the post.
Rudy
Thanks, I hear a lot of great things about Trulia. Is Trulia an enterprise company? some define that as 1000+ employees or a Fortune 5000 firm. Wishing you all the best in your pursuits.
Hi Jeremiah!
Currently, we have 75 trulians on the team and growing fast….
Thanks for your well wishes.
Rudy
Rudy, this is impressive growth, thanks for stopping by. Keep on growing and learning.
Hi Jeremiah,
As always, you are bringing community awareness and the people behind that together. Here is my info
Name: Shashi Bellamkonda
Title: Social Media Swami ( Yes thats eactly what my business card says.I had a internal contest to give me a title !)
Company: Network Solutions (http://www.networksolutions.com)
Category : Technology
Main focus is on Community and Customer outreach and I am the public face of the company in the social media.
URL : http://www.solutionsarepower.com
Linkedin : http://linkedin.shashi.name
Shashi, added
Hi Jeremy,
what better choice than Ken Kaplan to start off the list!
-Annie
Annie Rodkins, Social Media Manager, Intel – and everyone check out http://blogs.intel.com!
Annie, for what it’s worth, I hunted online, but didn’t find your online profile. Thanks for helping here, you were on my mind.
Hi Jeremiah
Nominating myself:
Filiberto Selvas
Social Media Strategist
Microsoft Office Live
Senior Product Manager, Online Community Programs (overseeing community management, moderation and influencer programs)
http://www.filibertoSelvas.com
http://www.officelivecommunity.com
Jeremiah my stats:
Steve Mann, GVP, Social Media & Customer Experience Strategy
company: SAP
links: http://ablebrains.typepad.com/ablebrains/social_media/index.html
http://www.linkedin.com/in/stevenmann
Focus: Improving the experience customers have with SAP via smart internal and external application of Web 2.0
correction: http://www.myofficelivecommunity.com
Another nomination:
Name: Frank Gruber
Title: principal product manager for AOL in the social networking & platforms group
Company: AOL(http://my.aol.com)
Category : Technology
URL : http://www.somewhatfrank.com/ http://techcocktail.com
I added Frank, thanks
Hi Jeremiah — thanks for including me on the list. I’m no longer with AOL (I’m consulting on my own for social media and online community), so I don’t fit under the criteria at this time.
hmmm, am wondering how I can make that list? 😉
In the meantime for everyone that is a community manager & wants to connect via twitter (saving you/me time!) – here’s a wiki – I added a section for Community Managers
http://www.web-strategist.com/blog/2008/06/20/list-of-social-computing-strategists-and-community-managers-for-large-corporations-2008/
JKO please share with your network on Twitter so we can get people connected – thanks!
how about if I put the correct link?! (must be Sunday!)
http://twitterpacks.pbwiki.com/New-Media%2C-Social-Media#CommunityManagerPack
Forgot to add my Twitter,
http://www.twitter.com/badgergravling
Name: Dan Thornton
Title: Community Marketing Manager
Company: Bauer Consumer Media
Category : Media
Focus: Consumer facing community led innovation and marketing, combined with internal strategy and evangelism
URL : http://www.thewayoftheweb.net
You’ve got WordPress automatically flagging anything with 2 URLs in, from what I can see happening… might make it tricky or confusing for anyone to include their URL, and their LinkedIn address…
Jeremiah:
Your missing some key leaders in the space. At least ones that we are working with.
Find me tomorrow at Forrester’s Fin. Svs. Forum in NY – participating in Pete’s panel for an update.
Blake
Visible Technologies
Blake, will do.
Dan, I’m scanning comments in akismet to make sure.
Hi Jeremaiah; Interesting list. I believe I fit the bill (and I work with Blake Cahill at Visible).
name; Marty Collins
Title: Sr Product Marketing Manager, Social Media Strategist Windows/Windows Live
Company; Microsoft
Category: Technology
Focus; leading Social Media Strategy and evangelising that strategy to internal groups, including securing budget and exec approval; publicly facing role sharing strategy and collaborating with other industry strategists
I just approved a bunch of comments that were with held, give me time to add them to the list. This is time consuming.
Thanks for adding me to the list, Jeremiah!
If you are taking names of the folks leading the charge for social media as an internal collaborative suite of tools – i.e. Enterprise 2.0, then I am the Enterprise Social Media Program Manager for Intel. See link for latest blog post discussing some of my work http://communities.intel.com/openport/blogs/it/2008/06/09/the-best-social-tools-don-t-make-a-social-enterprise. LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/profile?viewProfile=&key=3226647&trk=tab_pro
Great idea. I recently joined Thomson Reuters, serving as Community Manager for the Open Calais Web Service, reporting to the Evangelist for the initiative. It’s a ton of fun and a wild ride, living in the Semantic frontier.
Great list!
I am the Emerging Channels Specialist with Digitas, a leading digital media and marketing shop.
Among the many hats I wear, is that of Social Media Strategist. In this role, I am tasked with leading our various capabilities and clients through Social Media Monitoring, Insight Generation, Go-To-Market Strategy and at times, Implementation (overseeing activation/participation).
Awesome idea! I will help anyway I can! Just drop me a line anytime 😀
Tilly McLain
Community Manager, MyBlogLog
http://www.mybloglog.com/buzz/members/misstillytilly/
mmclain@yahoo-inc.com
Hi Jeremiah,
I am the Social Enterprise Evangelist at Jive Software. It’s my job to hook up with these types of people when they decide to do a pilot of Jive Clearspace. My role is to enable them to successfully conduct a pilot based on business measurements, and to provide lessons learned about user adoption best (and worst!) practices with our software. This includes internal marketing campaign materials, various workshops, and other materials. For free. 🙂
I’d like to nominate my colleague Ludovic Fourrage who is the Group Program Manager for Microsoft Academy. Since 2006 he has pioneered the use of Web 2.0 technologies to bring learning and knowledge sharing inside Microsoft to new levels. In 2007 he launched the first enterprise-class podcasting platform called Academy Mobile to more than 30,000 Microsoft employees. Later in February 2007 Ludovic Fourrage shared his vision for the Liberal Enterprise with John Havens, author of Tactical Transparency.
In June 2008 he announced the availability of the Podcasting Kit for SharePoint, and shared with customers his thoughts on how to apply 2.0 technologies to the enterprise in this session at Enterprise 2.0 (http://enterprise2conf.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=348353).
He has been identified by the community as one of the top Enterprise 2.0 influencers (http://niallcook.com/2008/02/13/the-enterprise-20-oscars/)
Ludo is married with one child and lives in Seattle, WA.
Hi Jeremiah: I am the Managing Editor of User-Generated Content at WRAL.com and launched the online community GOLO.com on July 2, 2007 of which I am the editor. I manage all aspects of the community and spend countless hours communicating with users and tailoring features to fit their needs.
Angela Connor, Managing Editor, User Generated Content
WRAL.com/CBC New Media Group
Managing Editor/GOLO.com
http://www.wral.com/golo/
http://www.linkedin.com/in/angelaconnor
Ok, I’ll throw my name in the hat! Alan Lepofsky, Senior Strategist at Lotus/IBM. I’ve spent the last 15 years helping companies learn to share information internally, as well as connecting to partners, suppliers, and customers. (even competitors!) Long before the buzzwords of web 2.0, Lotus was preaching the value of collaboration. The tools and culture have evolved, but many of the same principals still apply today.
http://www.linkedin.com/in/alanlepo
http://twitter.com/alanlepo
http://www.alanlepofsky.net/
Thanks all for submitting, lots of great folks here
In order to keep my scope manageable (it’s already difficult) I’ve added folks that are part of enterprise size companies with Forrester defines as over 1000 employees.
Lots of great folks, thanks for your understanding, I’m doing my best and wow, this is a big undertaking.
Just added quite a few folks from comments witheld in spam, it’s a problem as it inserts them in the timeline, I have to re-read all the comments.
Paolo, does Ludovic have a LinkedIn account? I’d prefer to link to that.
LaSandra, is Nory internal or external? I’ve changed the scope of this listing to be external, I can’t handle internal.
Hi Jeremiah. Great idea – we’ll all end up linking here!
My title is Digital Development Director but my linkedin profile says I’m an evangelist for the dominance of communities and the power of the network.
I work at Bauer Consumer Media in the UK.
oh, just read you want to link to the linkedin accounts: mine is http://linkedin.com/in/davidcushman
Hi Jeremiah,
I started at SpinVox 9mths ago as a ‘Digital Marketing Product Manager’ – since February this role has developed and a few months ago I was made Head of Social Media Strategy
Inwards, yes. But also outwards – blogger outreach, community/relationship manager… etc!
SpinVox is the market leader in voice to text technology, over 300 employees worldwide and recently closed a funding round of $100m with Goldman Sachs.
And some links for you sir,
James Whatley, Social Media Strategy, SpinVox http://blog.spinvox.com, http://whatleydude.vox.com,
http://twitter.com/whatleydude, http://www.linkedin.com/in/whatleydude
Oh – and when I moved – http://www.smstextnews.com/2007/08/james_whatley_moves_to_spinvox.html
🙂
Cheers,
J.
PS – Not sure I qualify, but at least this made me update a few things.
I have been working informally on getting Best Buy interested in customer communities for many years. This is the year we get them done. Started with a beta pilot with Fixya, then moving towards our own community design coming this fall. I am responsible for the strategy design, launch, and overall business model of community support for our customers.
Scott McIntyre – Director Business Development
http://www.bestbuy.com
http://www.geeksquad.com
http://www.linkedin.com/pub/0/42a/40b
Thanks!
Hi Jeremiah,
That’s quite a list of comments to go through… You have some work ahead of you 😉
In any case, here’s the info you asked for:
Name: Dvir Reznik
Title: Lotus Software Sales
Company: IBM Israel
Which category: Ongoing List of Social Computing Strategists at Enterprise Corporations and Ongoing List Community Managers at Enterprise Corporations
URL demonstrating body of work: http://dvirreznik.blogspot.com
Dvir.
Hi Jeremiah,
Thank you for putting out this initiative. It’s a welcome “water cooler” to baseline important trends in this job market.
I am Director of Emerging Technologies and Research Analysis at Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society. We are one of the country’s largest member-based non-profit science organizations, representing about 60K scientists and engineers from all disciplines.
My role encompasses mainly the first two of those you mention. I strategize on how we can position ourselves to provide value in a competitive environment. I support our blogs, forums and various other outreach media including our social media presence on Facebook and LinkedIn groups. I am also researching social networking products to evaluate which could best meet our needs to provide value and increase engagement. We’d expect to outsource significant development of a custom application.
I am active on Twitter and have profiles on LinkedIn and Naymz, as well as a couple of dozen social media sites.
http://twitter.com/rharris
http://www.linkedin.com/in/rogerharris
http://roger.harris.name
I am especially interested in the implications of microblogging for business, government and lifestyle. My blog http://www.twitterthoughts.com features regular posts on this topic.
Alison Bolen, Editor, SAS
Category: social media strategist for Enterprise Corp – Technology
I edit the corporate blog for SAS, which is tied to the corporate magazine, sascom. I’ve also become an informal social media champion/strategist of sorts as we continue to explore this space. My linkedin is http://www.linkedin.com/in/alisonbolen.
Laurent Courtines
Community Manager at Games.com
Games.com is part of AOL and AOL Games.
I am on the team in an effort to educate our group on the goings on in social media and make sure that we keep our focus on newer web initiatives. With our demographic it has been difficult to reach goals but I am plugging away!
I have an active profile on
http://twitter.com/laurent1066
http://friendfeed.com/laurent1066
http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/profile.php?id=578739852
Games.com Blog http://blog.games.com
Jeremiah,
I’m the Community Manager for Yahoo! Messenger, which means I fall under the Ongoing List of Social Computing Strategists at Enterprise Corporations/Technology category.
I manage and moderate the All-Star group for Yahoo! Messenger.
http://www.linkedin.com/in/melissadaniels
-Melissa
Hi Jeremiah,
My name is Denise and I’m the Online Content & Community Specialist for PacSun.
Name: Denise Garciano
Company: PacSun
Title: Online Content & Community Specialist
Website: http://www.pacsun.com
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/dgarciano
I am both inward and external focused. I am a strategist to brand and develop our content (blogs) and external community areas (myspace, facebook, youtube, pacsunteam.com) in order to reach out and create a connection with our customers.
Content & Blogs:
Style Section on http://www.pacsun.com
http://surf.pacsun.com
http://skate.pacsun.com
http://snow.pacsun.com
http://motox.pacsun.com
External Communities: http://www.myspace.com/pacsun
http://www.facebook.com/pages/PacSun/7133041750
http://www.pacsunteam.com
http://www.youtube.com/user/pacsuninsider
-Denise Garciano
Title: Sr. Manager of Social Technology
I’ve been working on social technology strategy and execution at Best Buy for 2 years.
Please read
I’m greatly appreciative of all the wonderful comments and submissions, it’s great to see the industry move forward, and I’m happy to document
This list however, has very specific requirements, please read what I’m seeking. Companies with over 1,000 employees qualify as Enterprise, please read the job descriptions.
I have to limit my scope to keep myself sane, and I read each profile to qualify.
If you feel like creating your own list, I promise to link to it and promote it.
I’m a strategic programs manager for the Intel(r) Software Network. My blog: http://softwareblogs.intel.com/author/amelia-barton
I’ve been working in social media for about a year, mostly focused on viral technical videos.
I am the User Experience and Creative Director within NCI’s Office of Communications and Education. I am also the social media evangelist and help lead our newly formed Social Media Working Group to develop knowledge and audience relationship strategies using social media.
Please read the requirements friends
Before you leave a comment for the list, please carefully read the requirements. I review each entry and submission, and this could end up saving a lot of back and forth emails.
Thanks for working with me,
Thanks for the add – and for this list. Your blog is quickly becoming a favorite resource of mine (found it via twitter, btw).
Hi Jeremy,
You’re blog is a wealth of information—thanks!
Katie Hamlin, Community Manager, Fodors.com, Random House, http://www.fodors.com/forums/
I am the Community Manager of Fodors.com, the web site of Fodor’s Travel Guides. Fodor’s is a division of Random House—there has been much dialogue back in forth between the various imprints here in the last year regarding social media. I’ve managed the community exclusively for almost 3 years.
Meant to say “your” blog. But you too are a wealth of information.
Hello Jeremiah,
I™m the Social Media Specialist at PCC Natural Markets. I™m on the Marketing team.
PCC Natural Markets began as a food-buying club of 15 families in 1953. Today, it’s the largest consumer-owned natural food co-operative in the United States.
http://www.pccnaturalmarkets.com/
http://www.linkedin.com/in/ricardorabago
Sector: Retail
All the best,
-Ricardo
Enjoy your posts! I’ve included my info in your format so I wouldn’t leave anything out. Thanks.
1) My official title is Product Manager, Social Networking and Community Moderation. This is a full-time postion.
2) I am with Hoover’s, Inc. (www.hoovers.com) which is part of Dun & Bradstreet (NYSE: DNB)
3) http://www.linkedin.com/pub/0/7a2/268
I oversee Hoover’s community programs, UGC, and our blog properties.
4) My role is both inwardly and externally focused — it’s a new role, and I expect it will continually evolve.
Hi Jeremiah,
You can add me under Financial Service/ Banking as Director of Collaboration, Intranet, Communication and Innovation at AMP. (AMP is Australia’s largest retail and corporate superannuation provider, and one of the region’s most significant investment managers with more than A$129 billion in assets under management (as at 31 December 2007) .We have a market-leading distribution capability with a network of more than 2,000 qualified financial planners)
I am driving the internal organisational uptake of social media through an array of technologies (wikis, blogs, team collaboration spaces, podcasts, and other community initiatives including Blogger meet-ups, barcamps, an internally developed Facebook employee directory, open innovation campaigns, and so on). On the cusp of bursting into the public domain!
The UK-based Institute of Chartered Accountants’ IT Counts website, powered by Wordframe, which has just won a web 2.0 award, is managed by myself, Stuart Hall as community manager.
Oops, forgot to add 4800 employees and weblink to LinkedIn http://www.linkedin.com/in/annaliekillian
Are you including Agency people?
I™d like to nominate:
Kandace Hudspeth, Digital Strategist, MRM Worldwide-McCann Worldgroup
http://www.mrmpworldwide.com/
Thanks,
Kandace
Kandace
Yes agencies can be included (as all companies) as long as they are enterprise class of 1000+ Employees.
According to linkedin MRM shows the company at 201-500 employees, is that correct?
http://www.linkedin.com/companies/1927/MRM+Worldwide?trk=pro_other_cmpy&goback=%2Esrp_1_1214617897237_in
Stuart
Sounds like a great project. What’s the URL to the company website and blog?
Annalie, I added, thanks for making my job easier by being so detailed with the submission.
Sorry reading this whole thing is more effort than I have to contribute just now, but…
Notably missing here are the members of Nokia’s Social Media Communications Team.
Head of Social Media Communications, Mark Squires
Blogger Outreach, Ray Haddow
Lead on Nokia corporate blog, Charlie Schick
http://conversations.nokia.com
Debi, thanks, I added these
Hi Jeremiah! I am a worldwide marketing manager at Intel Software Network. I focus on WOM marketing, viral marketing for the communities on Intel Software Network. http://www.linkedin.com/in/gunjanr
Aloha Jeremiah,
Mahalo for putting this list together. I am working on social media initiatives at HMSA (Hawaii Medical Services Association). There are about 1700 employees at HMSA. My work at HMSA has both an internal and external aspect to it. I also maintain an online community call Bytemarks and have a weekly tech show on Hawaii Public Radio. Here are some pertinent information:
Burt Lum
Title: Business Relationship Manager
Company: HMSA
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/bytemarks
HMSA: http://www.hmsa.com
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/bytemarks
Bytemarks: http://www.bytemarks.org
Category: Ongoing List of Social Computing Strategists at Enterprise Corporations and Ongoing List Community Managers at Enterprise Corporations
Jeremiah
I added the ICAEW’s IT Counts url at http://www.web-strategist.com/blog/2008/06/23/ongoing-list-of-social-media-in-the-financial-industry/
Happy to give you guest access if you drop me an email or via twitter @stuartgh
Cheers
Stuart
A little late to the Game. My name is Kimberly Dillon and I am a New Media Strategists at TMP Worldwide. We are a global recruitment ad agency that helpp companies adopt social media in their recruitment and change management programs. ww.linkedin.com/in/kdillon
Hi Jeremiah,
I am in the newly created role of Sr. Marketing Manager – Emerging Media at Walmart. Our team is responsible for in-store, online, mobile and community. We are at the nexus of marketing, PR, .com, IT and operational interaction designed to create a more engaging experience for our customers.
http://www.linkedin.com/katadhin
http://www.twitter.com/katadhin
Kimberly, I need more information about TMP, I don’t see it listed in your LinkedIn Profile. Also, the requirement is an enterprise size company, is it over 1000 employees? Sorry for the hassle, I’m vetting each one of these submissions. Please let me know, thanks for informing me.
John, added thanks
Director of Product Management, Unified Communications Group, Microsoft Corporation. My team looks after product management for Office Communications Server. I previously headed up product management for Windows Live Spaces, Live Writer and Events. In both my role is closest to that of “Strategist”.
Moz, added
Search and Social Media Manager, IBM Software Group. My team focuses on organic search and social media for IBM’s $18B Software business. I blog at http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/blogs/page/Turbo and my LinkedIn profile is at http://www.linkedin.com/in/toddwatson. I would be classified as a strategist.
Added, great job there Todd, very interesting.
Jeremiah–
Nice List. I am the Sr. Director of Advanced Marketing Systems at Experian Interactive (Freecreditreport.com), and handle all new 2.0 marketing strategies. My LinkedIn is here:
http://www.linkedin.com/in/alanedgett
Thanks,
Alan
Hi Jeremiah: I’m slow, but I’m here!
Angela LoSasso, Community & Blogs Strategist
HP
http://www.linkedin.com/pub/3/a44/738
Strategist, Evangelist, and Community Manager
For consumers, the HP Community Wiki
http://www.expressioncenter.wetpaint.com
For small business, the HP SMB Community Wiki
http://www.expressioncentersmb.wetpaint.com
Ask Tac Anderson and Eric Kintz: It ain’t easy to get a Wiki at HP!!!
Regards,
Angela
Hi Jermiah –
Nominating myself:
Marc Sirkin
Sr Marketing Manager
Microsoft CIO Network
http://www.microsoftcionetwork.com
http://www.linkedin.com/in/marcsirkin
http://www.twitter.com/msirkin
This is done Marc
Hi Jermiah,
Ajay Mungara
Community Manager
Intel Software Network
Linkedin Profile.
http://www.linkedin.com/in/amungara
Great resource. Thanks for pulling together the community around this.
Justin Gibbs
Online Marketing Strategist
Experian Consumer Direct
LinkedIn:
http://www.linkedin.com/in/justingibbs
I work with Alan Edgett who’s already on the list.
Great Endevor, Thanks!
Morgan Johnston
Manager Corporate Communications
JetBlue Airways
http://www.linkedin.com/in/mhjohnston
Thanks Morgan, added!
I would be the point person for your list with regard to Sony Electronics.
Here™s the link to my LinkedIn page http://www.linkedin.com/profile?viewProfile=&key=1603444&trk=tab_pro
Very useful resource. Thanks for taking on such a huge endeavor!
Slaton Carter
Online Community Development Manager
Whole Foods Market
http://www.linkedin.com/pub/2/102/1b2
Great list. You can include me:
Vice President, Online Communications, American Express.
http://www.linkedin.com/in/anchin
Great resource – did not see Cisco, the WebEx Technology group included. I am the Sr. Manager of Customer Success and Community Programs – own both the community strategy and overall community management. Holly Valdez, is our day to day Community Manager
Great list. Regards, diane
Diane
Added! Was waiting for you to chime in. Do you have a linkedin profile? I’d rather link to that, same for Holly.
Hi Jeremiah,
Thanks for the note. Here’s the link to my public profile on LinkedIn
http://www.linkedin.com/pub/0/659/6a4
Diane
Diane
Thanks, this is done.
Thanks for starting this! Please include me also.
Jonathan Sullivan
Director of Web Services
Fannie Mae
Category: Strategist
http://www.linkedin.com/in/jonathanpsullivan
I’m the “Community Manager” for Whole Foods Market. Involved with development of these channels, as well as communicating with customers via:
http://twitter.com/wholefoods
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Whole-Foods-Market/24922591487
http://blog.wholefoodsmarket.com/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/whole_foods/
http://getsatisfaction.com/wholefoods
Hi Jeremiah,
We’ve met a couple times on the Cisco campus but just to refresh your memory 🙂
I’m a New Media Program Manager in Corporate Communications at Cisco focusing on external blogging and social media for the enterprise. http://blogs.cisco.com
http://www.linkedin.com/in/deanna24
http://twitter.com/deanna24
BTW – just read the latest Forrester report on B2B Blogging – excellent report and 100% spot on. Great opportunities for improvement!
Keep up the great work and thanks for pulling together this list!
Deanna Belle
Deanna, added, thanks.
Hey Jeremiah: Love the list. Thanks for sharing
2nd request here to be added…
(We met at Web 2.0 Expo in SF, and we talked again today on an HP Call.)
I’m a community and blogs strategist for HP, Imaging and Printing Group, U.S.
Run two wikis for HP:
http://www.expressioncenter.wetpaint.com
http://www.expressioncentersmb.wetpaint.com
Contribute to a couple of HP blogs, including HP’s Backstage at Sundance blog:
http://www.communities.hp.com/online/blogs/sundance/default.aspx
You can find me on LinkedIn at:
http://www.linkedin.com/pub/3/a44/738
Take care! Talk with you soon.
Angela
Brilliant!
Rick Reich
Sr. Mgr, Social Media & Technologies
Citrix Systems
http://www.linkedin.com/in/rickreich
Hi Jeremiah,
surprising that there is only one social media professional under agencies. Wondering why. Any thoughts?
Jeremiah,
Feel free to include me..
Jeremiah Andrick
Program Manager for Customer Engagement
Microsoft Live Search
Steve
Yes, two reasons, this is just for companies with over 1000 employees. A majority of agencies are not at this size, or if they are, they are fragmented into many divisions
Secondly, much of this training and skillset happens at the individual account team(s), so there’s often not a centralized source.
Jeremiah Andick
Can you give me a link to what you’re working on that indicates how you’re involving social media? See many other folks links to their linkedin pages. I need it documented or referenced.
Angela at HP
Sorry, your comment was withheld, I’ve approved it now, shouldn’t be an issue going forward
Suzanne Minassian, IBM, Lotus Division. I’m the product Manager for IBM Lotus Connections. For references, I have many a presence online. Here’s a list of them all and links to LinkedIn/FB/Twitter/etc – http://tekmoda.com/. Most relevant would be my work blog – http://synch.rono.us. I was formerly in collaboration research and now I’m product focused.
There are *lots* of people who fit your description at IBM. Gina Poole is the VP of Social Software programs at IBM, and we have a team who manages external facings social sites such as IBM.com, developerworks, and the Lotus Greenhouse. I’ll point them here.
Thanks for creating such a list!
Bill Pearson, Intel Corporation, Manager of the Intel Software Network.
http://www.linkedin.com/profile?viewProfile=&key=4547301&trk=tab_pro
Also at http://softwareblogs.intel.com/author/bill-pearson/
ISN is an online community for software developers focused on technologies like threading, manageability, MIDs, and visual computing.
Jeremiah:
what a great idea to create a network of social media professionals.
I am the Director, Global Ecosystem and Partner Marketing at SAP.
It is my responsibility to market the Business Process Expert community at SAP – http://bpx.sap.com , in terms of generating external awareness, as well as bringing interesting people and topics into the community.
I work with Marilyn Pratt and Scott Jones who you already have on your list.
Jeremiah – a noble endeavor. Let me know if I or Intel can help in any way.
Bryan
Hi Jeremiah,
Wanted to toss my community hat in the ring as well:
Jayne Karolow
Director of Community
LocaModa, Inc.
(mobile/web/OOH technology)
Twitter: jayniek
Thanks for the great list!
Hi, I’m Jean Fahmy, newly created Director of Digital Strategies @ Group Transcontinental.
We are the largest printer in Canada, 6th in NA. We also have over 150 online/offline brands which attract 4.2M uniques per month (that’s not bad in Canada).
My role is to help the shift from the largest printer to the best digital organization.
I’ll add myself to the list. I’m still fairly new to the job and I blogged about my experience so far here:
http://leastresistance.net/2008/05/25/what-would-you-say-you-do-here/
Matt Ray
Zenoss Community Manager
community.zenoss.com
leastresistance.net
Hi Jeremiah –
I hope that you will consider including Constant Contact’s community manager. CTCT, whose community, ConnectUp! is in the Groundswell book, and has been in operation for several years, is a great example of a thriving user community with over 18,000 members.
Maureen Royal
Director of Customer Experience, Constant Contact
http://community.constantcontact.com/
Linkedin profile: http://tinyurl.com/68f5au
Thanks,
Lisa
I have two names for you from Citrix Systems in the Community Manager role:
Stephen Spector, Sr. Manager Xen.org, http://www.linkedin.com/emailContacts?context=1&itemID=735170&itemLinkName=View+my+profile&authToken=a4HO&authType=NAME_SEARCH&goback=%2Eprf
* Stephen manages the open source Xen.org community on behalf of Citrix Systems
Vishal Ganeriwala, Sr. Manager of Citrix Developer Network, http://www.linkedin.com/emailContacts?context=3&itemID=5496969&itemLinkName=Vishal+Ganeriwala&authToken=_YBR&authType=NAME_SEARCH&goback=%2Esrp_1_1216862583504_in%2Evpf_5496969_0_*4YBR_NAME*4SEARCH_1216862583504_Vishal_Ganeriwala
* Vishal manges the Citrix Developer Network on behalf of Citrix Systems
Hi Jeremiah – I’d like to be included on your list.
I’m the *Community Manager* for Web 2.0 Expo. This is a global, annual conference that is co-produced by TechWeb and O’Reilly Media.
My official employer is TechWeb (previously CMP). Parent company is United Business Media (traded out of London). Web 2.0 Expo is one “product” among many within the Live Events Group.
Here are links to LinkedIn and two introductory blog posts I wrote –
* http://www.linkedin.com/profile?viewProfile=&key=7662425&trk=tab_pro
* http://blog.web2expo.com/2008/04/hello-world-20-let-the-games-begin/
* http://janerri.wordpress.com/2008/07/18/zero-to-endless-how-i-became-expo%e2%80%99s-community-manager/
As for your last question – I cover a lot of ground in my role. I’m a brand evangelist and Web community-seeker (outward-focused) but I also bring in intelligence from the communities I’m a part of back to the Web 2.0 Expo team. It helps us develop stronger program elements, be reactive to the needs of the community and overall, increase the quality and reach of our event.
I also encourage the use of social media tools among our sales and marketing teams (inward-focused). I’ve only been doing this work for just shy of 6 months now but long-term I want to make an impact within my organization, beyond the Web 2.0 Expo events. Just today I had a brainstorm session with a colleague – I’m working on a one-page tutorial/guideline doc (I’m a big fan of one-pagers) that will help teams at TechWeb adopt social media tools in their everyday.
Hope this helps. Thanks for putting this list together.
~ Janetti a.k.a Janerri
Hi Jeremiah,
I’m Chris James and I’m the Social Media and Online Community Strategist at Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) and would like to be added to your list as well.
AMD is investing heavily in its social media and community-related endeavors and is very active in formulating new and innovative strategies to reach our customers and end users. Before this role, I was a part of the team at Dell who helped bring community engagement out of the web “backwater” and into the prominent role it now plays today.
Look for great things to come from AMD in the near future around social computing. There is still a lot of trails to blaze in this space and we hope to be one of the innovators.
Chris
Great stuff, AMD must be glad to have you.
I think Digitas should be in the agency category, no? The agency list is light but I’m sure agency types will make sure to let you know who they are — we’re agency types after all and can’t help but promote ourselves. I’m not sure we could debate whether any agency qualifies as enterprise but they certainly serve enterprises. Good post. This would be a nice del.icio.us set too.
Barry, good catch, this is done.
Hi Jeremiah
I’m reading from Staniforth – a PR consultancy in the UK. We’ve started doing social media projects with people in large companies but occupying traditional comms roles rather than the emerging specialisms you’re listing.
Would it be too much of a drag to segment in your list any new Social Computing Strategists and Community Managers coming out of the UK?
Jon
That would be an interesting cut! But many of these brands and roles are global, so it wouldn’t make much sense.
I have a well-respected blog on social software at http://www.LifeWithAlacrity.com, and I am doing social media strategy and executive coaching for Johnson & Johnson, SAP and other companies. See my LinkedIn Profile for more info: http://www.linkedin.com/profile?viewProfile=&key=62844
Christopher
I’m seeking folks that are currently working full time at enterprise size companies, got any suggestions? Thanks for commenting.
Overseeing the strategy development of IIR’s (www.iirusa.com) social media efforts, including overseeing some of our initial online communities.
http://www.linkedin.com/in/ymartinez
Great read!
Thanks!
-Steven Burda
http://www.linkedin.com/in/burda
http://burda.lyro.com/
Hello!
I’m Lacy Kemp and my insanely long title is Social Media Communications Speicalist at RealNetworks. We are outward focused in our efforts. I’m running our corporate blog at http://www.realnetworksblog.com as well as all community relations outreach.
My intro post can be found here: http://realnetworksblog.com/2008/06/30/starting-off-with-a-hello.aspx
Lacy, welcome. added.
Nancy Zimmerman (aka citizensbanker)
Bank Evangelist
Citizens Bank of Canada
(note: the bank itself is 10 years old; its own staff is not ‘enterprise’ sized, but it’s parent company, Vancity, is)
Kelly Colgan
Media Relations Specialist
APC by Schneider Electric (American Power Conversion)
Community/Externally focused role
Twitter: @kellyAPC
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/profile?viewProfile=&key=16618016&trk=tab_pro
I am in the early stages of adopting social media as a means to generate PR. This is a great site, Jeremiah – thank you!
-Kelly
Hi, Jeremiah and friends
My name is Jose Antonio Gallego, Community Manager at BBVA, one of the 10 biggest banks in the world, with more than 100.000 employees (and, of course, Forrester Clientes 🙂 )
I am based in Madrid, Spain.
http://www.linkedin.com/in/joseantoniogallego
This is my company:
http://www.linkedin.com/companies/4860/BBVA
Thanks!
Winnie Hsia
Online Community Moderator
Whole Foods Market
I work with Slaton Carter and have a more outward customer service / community building oriented role with social media (blog, Twitter, forums, etc) for Whole Foods Market.
I’ll add this one too:
Christopher Paton
Social Media Manager
Monsanto Company
http://www.linkedin.com/in/christopherpaton
Aloha From The West Coast!
Darin R. McClure
Director of Social Media
& Technical Services
MCSE MCP MCP+I
http://webconsuls.com
darin@webconsuls.com
darin.r.mcclure@gmail.com (Google Talk)
(949) 370-3069 (My iPhone)
Got Plurk?
http://www.plurk.com/user/darinrmcclure
National Collegiate Scouting Association
Director of Social Media
I would like to nominate:
Name: Elliott Lemenager
Title: Social Media Specialist
Company: Grand Canyon University
http://www.linkedin.com/in/lemenager
Chad Kaszer
working at Toyota Motor Sales
I am a strategist and community manager, internally and externally. I also coordinate the social media side of product/vehicle releases, run our various social media accounts, and council on possible content for our corporate blog.
Thanks, this is a great list!
http://ckaszer.googlepages.com/resume
http://ckaszer.googlepages.com/contactme
I work in a hybrid of those two roles (as many others have said themselves). I focus more internally but also deal with direct community management in the short run (though I am hiring for someone else to focus in that role). I work at Hachette Filipacchi (WomansDay.com, Elle.com, Caranddriver.com, roadandtrack.com, etc.). My title is: Manager of Product Engagement & Community Development. I am in the process of defining our social strategy now, so our current social platform is very web 1.0 still. That will change in the not so distant future. My LinkedIn profile is http://www.linkedin.com/pub/7/787/367.
Jennifer Cisney
Chief Blogger, kodak.com
http://www.linkedin.com/in/jennifercisney
http://jennycisney.1000words.kodak.com/
She fits the Community Manager role.
Thanks for submitting all, I’ve been a bit behind as I’ve been traveling and busy with research.
I’ve added a few names, but please note, this list has specific requirements: I’m seeking folks in Enterprise class companies or organizations (over 1000 employees) and I use linkedin to help filter this (it shows company size)
Should you want to create you own list, I’ll be happy to link to it, and promote it for the SMB space.
Brian Davidson: I did some searches on Linkedin, but wasn’t able to find your profile, do you have one?
Friendly greetings Jeremiah, I heard about this list from Valleywag. Just in case you wish to consider it, I’d like to share my info ” I work for Linden Lab, which isn’t over 1,000 employees, but I do have a useful reason why I’m still commenting… as you know, we’ve led, pioneered, and have numerous Community- and Social Media-focused roles, since our primary business is the virtual world Second Life.
So here’s mine:
Torley Wong (aka Torley Linden)
Resident Enlightenment Manager (external-facing, has some aspects of community management but it’s quite a unique “hybrid” position suited for the needs of our organization)
http://blog.secondlife.com/author/torleylinden/ and numerous other blog posts 🙂
I’m not on LinkedIn because I haven’t found a need for it.
Keep on compiling and rock on, I hope this’ll be a useful resource in due time! 🙂
Torley
Thanks for stopping by, I’ve encouraged many others at companies under 1000 employees to start a list, if you choose to do so, I’ll link to it. I simply don’t have the time to manage it.
Hi,
Please add me to Social Computing Strategists.
Thanks!
Rachel
Sr. Director, Community Development
eBay
Thanks Rachel, added.
Hi Jeremiah,
Thanks for putting together this list. I am the Word of Mouth/Social Marketing Leader for the Small Business Division at Intuit. I fit in the social computing strategist role and primarily focus on engaging with new customers in communities that are not on our own web properties. Thanks, Kira
http://www.linkedin.com/in/kirawampler
Hi Jeremiah,
You pinged me after my twitter tease 😉
I guess I should be on this list, was too busy with SAP Mentor initiative and Community Day prep to post.
SAP Chief Community Evangelist
Founder and Host of Future Salon
Check out this Thursday’s Salon about Open Source Learning with John Taylor Gatto, it will be an amazing one. http://futuresalon.org.
All the best, Mark.
a must read post for every social media people. Jowyang rawk!:)
from Colorado
Yann Ropars
Partner
Extanz LLC Specializes in Social Media Optimization and PR 2.0
Services / body of work: http://extanz.com/services/
Blog: http://extanz.com
Linkedin: http://www.linkedin.com/in/yannr
Hi folks, I’ll be making updates soon, hang tight.
Hi Jeremiah,
Please add me to your list of Community Managers. I work for SMART Technologies, based in Calgary, Alberta. My formal title is Education Specialist – Web Communications. I handle the care and feeding of our education websites, run social media campaigns and also manage the SMART Exchange – a global community for educators. My linked in profile is here: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/8/94a/613
Thought I’d throw my name in here.
Position: CTO CommunityLend
Role: Technology, and Social Media for CommunityLend.
Personal and for fun: Which Banks get the Web Lifestyle: http://thebankwatch.com
Jessica Baker
Marketing Manager, Interactive Media
American Greetings Interactive
Manage SEO & Social Media for 7 AGI websites.
Linkedin:http://www.linkedin.com/in/jessicacbaker
Jessica
Thanks, I added you in.
Charles Miller
Director, Inbound E-mail Operations and Blog Outreach
DIRECTV, Inc.
Category: Social Computing Strategist
Industry: Media
Directing the inbound e-mail operations and tackling social media simultaneously have their benefits — both are strongly linked by providing raw, documented customer sentiment that a company can listen to, learn from, adjust practices and respond to concerns — just accomplished through different customer communication methods.
In the social media role, I direct the strategy for blog outreach, interact with our top customer-driven community leaders online (who drive an on-going customer beta testing program) and oversee the management of forums.directv.com, a large peer-to-peer customer community customers with over 1/2 million unique visits monthly.
Linkedin: http://www.linkedin.com/in/charlesmiller310
Jeremiah,
Thanks for the inclusion in the “official” list….I will pass along the word!
Hi Jeremiah,
A colleague just sent me this. What a great list that you’ve put together!
I’m the worldwide leader of the Lotus Social Software community within IBM and, as such, I promote the use of social software, specifically Lotus Connections within IBM. Additionally, I’m the Americas Tech Sales SME and Evangelizer for Lotus Connections.
Hi Jeremiah,
Would love to add my name to the list. My position of Web Editor at MicroStrategy is quickly growing into something more online community-related, and I love it! (community manager role, technology industry)
Nicholas Polt
Web Editor
MicroStrategy
http://www.linkedin.com/in/nicholaspolt
(Digital Agency)
Daniel Timothy Wood
Digital Strategy Director
dwood(at)pmsi.net
PMSI – Portland | San Francisco | Austin
—
EXPERTISE
Strategic Counsel
· UX research and testing
· Brand messaging and positioning
· Online community development
· Social media strategies
Web Development
· Web design
· Application development/engineering
· eCommerce
· Microsites and landing pages
· Rich-media content development
Online Marketing
· SEO/SEM
· Online advertising
· Email design and management
· Campaign/audience measurement
Interactive
· Environmental/POS media
· Multimedia presentations
· Demo/Prototyping
· DVD development
Daniel
I found your LI profile: http://www.linkedin.com/profile?viewProfile=&key=1358889&fromSearch=1&sik=1222819176305&split_page=1&rd=in&authToken=UF54&authType=OUT_OF_NETWORK&goback=.srp_1_1222819176305_in
I don’t see the size of your agency listed, I have a threshold of 1000 employees, how large is PMSI?
Luis, I need more info, do you have a LinkedIn profile with more details?
Folks, please read my requirements section above, unlike a wiki, I vett this list.
Engauge is a multi service ad agency with a broad range of Blue Chip clients.
I have been Director of Social Media for 3 years now.
The client roster for our social media product is as follows:
1) Chick-fil-A
2) Dad’s Pet Care
3) Zone Perfect
4) Airborne
5) NGK Spark-Plugs
6) Osmocote
7) Church’s Chicken
8) Stok
9) UJC
10) Donatos Pizza
We do everything from design and develop the creative to seeding the content over various social channels.
My role is primarily as a Social Media Strategist, I evaluate each client’s current position and incorporate tools and partnerships to increase their social media footprint.
http://www.linkedin.com/chadisrael
http://www.twitter.com/engauge
Hi Jeremiah, here’s my info:
Andy Payne, Technical Product Manager for Norton Safe Web
I’m currently community-focused – I’m working on managing the community and the website, which is in public beta.
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/andypayne
Site: http://safeweb.com/
Twitter: http://twitter.com/nortonsafeweb
Blog: http://andy-payne.com/
Matt Lehman, Director of Web Experience
Progressive Insurance
Lead Progressive.com experience and social media strategy
http://www.linkedin.com/in/mdlehman
(also will be out for blog council meeting/blogwell in later October – it would be great to catch up for an hour)
Hi Jeremiah, here™s my info:
Imma grau
forumclinic project manager (www.forumclinic.org). Hospital Clinic de Barcelona. e-health and social communication. Virtual Comunities and Suport groups. We do also social and health communication research wiht medical doctors and Social scientifics.
Frances Flynn Thorsen, Community Manager
Trulia.com
Community 400K and counting
http://www.linkedin.com/profile?viewProfile=&key=8314665&trk=tab_pro
http://www.trulia.com/account/settings/
Hi Jeremiah,
I’m the Social Marketing Manager for InterContinental Hotels Group. IHG is the largest hotel company in the world measured by the number of rooms. http://www.ihg.com
My linked in profile is http://www.linkedin.com/in/cassandraimfeldjeyaram
I’m on point for our global, corporate social marketing strategy and for managing our private and public online communities.
Posts (to validate my position) include: http://www.eyefortravel.com/news/north-america/companies-are-still-infancy-social-marketing
http://ebizine.com/marketing/3-simple-steps-for-creating-a-successful-viral-e-mail-campaign-to-your-house-lists/
http://www.communispace.com/news/events/
Great list!!! Very helpful!
great post! Can you please add me. Stephanie Frasco, Social Media/Community Development, E.Factor, http://www.efactor.com
thanks!
Sorry I forgot to add these. http://efactor.com/p/profile/id=219
http://www.facebook.com/people/Stephanie_Frasco/1343265836
Aquent isn’t over 1,000 employees (yet!), but here’s our Social Guru’s bio:
Judi Wunderlich is the Director of Strategic Initiatives for Aquent (http:www.aquent.com), a 20+ year old global staffing/recruiting firm focused on jobs in the marketing, advertising, new media and creative industries. Judi™s role focuses on Social Media and Networking, and in creating and defining online user experiences and both individual and corporate brand definitions. She is very active in the Interactive community and has been a guest speaker at The Chicago New Media Summit, for internal North American Aquent staff training, and at universities and design schools like The School of the Art Institute. She also runs a 500+ member education and networking group (the Chicago Interactive Design/Development Group) that meets monthly to discuss current trends and best practices in online communications.
Email Judi at jwunderlich@aquent.com. Or better yet, INTERACT with her here:
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/judiwunderlich
Twitter: http://twitter.com/JudiWunderlich
Meetup: http://www.meetup.com/Chicago-Interactive-Design-Development/
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/people/Judi_Wunderlich/833415084
Chicago New Media Summit: http://chicagonewmediasummit.ning.com/profile/JudiWunderlich
Calling her is also an option: (312) 869-3000 “ if you can drag her away from the computer.
Hi Jeremiah,
I™m Chris Haro, Social Media Manager at Premiere Global Services (NYSE:PGI).
About PGI:
PGI is a multinational provider of on-demand communications technologies that simplify and automate business processes.
Over 50,000 companies, including nearly 95% of the Fortune 500, use the Premiere Global Communications Operating System, or PGiCOS, for their daily communications.
Site: PremiereGlobal.com
Business Card: Text “HARO” to 41411
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/chrisharo
Best wishes,
C
Hi Jeremiah,
As Adam Christensen commented a while back, there are lots of us at IBM involved in Social Marketing, and I’m one of them.
I’m the team lead for social marketing initiatives for IBM’s Data Management solutions (which include databases such as DB2 and Informix, as well as a whole host of associated tools and solutions).
My role is an externally-facing one and involves looking at how we can use social marketing and community-based initiatives to communicate and interact with the people who rely on and care about our solutions.
Blog: http://www.adamgartenberg.com
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/adamgartenberg
Thank you for putting this list together,
Adam Gartenberg
Could you please change my listing from IBM/Lotus to Socialtext.
Hi,
I’m Marc Needham – Director of Web Technology for Scripps Health in San Diego.
Scripps Health is large health system with five hospitals, 18 outpatient facilities and over 12,000 employees.
I am responsible for web strategy for the organization including internet, intranet, extranet, marketing and social media strategy. Currently we maintain active presences on Facebook, Twitter and YouTube. We are seeing some really interesting results and are excited about using these new tools to connect with our patients.
My LinkedIn profile can be found here:
http://www.linkedin.com/in/marcneedham
And here is a link to a blog post I wrote recently about social media’s uses in the healthcare vertical:
http://webiscope.com/2008/10/why-social-media-works/
Hey Jeremiah, This is a great resource you’ve created!
I’m the “New Media Program Manager” for VeriSign. Some things I do:
— Educate colleagues about the benefits of social media
— Research best practices & case studies to influence executives
— Monitor the blogosphere and report on brand reputation issues
— Run the blog program
— Work with legal to develop policies around blogging and online communications
— Develop a roadmap to formalize a Corporate Social Media Program
— Advise business units on their social media marketing campaigns.
I also write a personal blog, Tales from the Social Media Front Linewhich is meant to help other social media managers at enterprise companies who are searching for case studies and info about ROI.
Hi Jeremiah,
Please add me to your list. I am the Director of Community Management at Yahoo!.
http://www.linkedin.com/in/mattwarburton
Thanks.
-Matt
Hi Jeremiah,
My name is Jason Burns and I am the Online Communications Manager with Disneyland Resort. I am responsible/have been an active participant in several ongoing social media initiatives for the resort including:
-Production of audio and video podcasts
-Creation of first social media outreach initiatives targeting members of the media and consumers using Twitter, Stumble Upon, Facebook, You Tube, Blogging, Multimedia News Releases, etc.
Thanks for all your hard work and for pulling this community together!
Hi Jeremiah,
Thanks for your super prompt response on the previous post.
I’m Cathy Ma @Yahoo! Europe. Working together with products, developers, marketing and social policy to make our sites more useful and engagement for people who want to share about their passion. On our partner sites with Eurosports, our users have generated over 500k comments in the first five months sine launching in June 08! Now working on how to bring out the creme and better our comment filtering system.
PS: Obviously my title is Yahoo! Europe’s community manager, but as you talked about previously, we are a mix of social media strategist, listener and connector. Thanks for pulling us together.
I see all these recent submissions, will update this post in a few days. Thanks for patience.
Received this submission, will add soon
Name: Ariel Waldman
Title: NASA CoLab program coordinator
Association: NASA
Category: Social Computing Strategists at Enterprise Corporations
URL to bio of body of work: http://www.linkedin.com/in/arielwaldman
Category: Automotive
Title: SVP, Group Mgt Supervisor – Chevrolet Digital Strategy
Agency: Campbell-Ewald
I’m finalizing Chevrolet’s 2009 social media and digital strategy over the next couple of weeks as we expand our integrated campaign development fully traditional advertising supporting our digital solutions and utilizing social media to inform our program objectives and approach.
We have a fully dedicated team of Social Media Experience Planners that are tapped to support our full client base. My role is to lead Chevrolet into a digital revolution.
Just a few of the smart, talented people I’ve had the opportunity to work with on communities like Yahoo, BabyCenter, and Edmunds. Your list feels incomplete without them:
Ernie Hsiung, Developer Advocate/Community, Ning
http://www.linkedin.com/in/erniehsiung
Heather Champ, Director of Community,
Flickr
Mario Anima, Director of Community, Current
http://www.linkedin.com/in/marioanima
Rebecca Michals, Community Manager, BabyCenter
http://www.linkedin.com/pub/0/383/a85
Sylvia Lacock Marino, Direct of Community Operations, Edmunds.com
http://www.linkedin.com/in/smarino
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Hi Jeremiah,
Great compilation and resource of social media practitioners. I am the social media strategist on the emerging media team for Walmart Stores, inc. responsibilities also include mobile, community and in-store media integration.
http://tinyurl.com/6jz4ea
Hi Jeremiah,
Great list — thank you!
In my role as Market Intelligence Consultant for Premera Blue Cross, I actively research for and contribute to our social media initiative focusing on potential internal and external applications.
I am also in the process of bringing on a new wiki/blog tool I will be using for intelligence and knowledge management; having successfully made the business case I hope to shift the culture a bit to one that embraces online collaboration (beyond email)!
Very exciting times.
Hi Jeremiah,
Would love to see a government category in your list. I’m a business analyst with the City of Ottawa, Canada – a large part of my work is focussed on research and strategic planning for government utilization of social media.
Cheers! Mark
http://twitter.com/citymark
http://www.markfaul.ca
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Jeremiah,
Following up. I own the Webmaster community for Live Search. I drive our blogging, twitter and influential outreach programs as well run our social media measurement and sentiment studies.
Our blog currently lives at blogs.msdn.com/webmaster moving soon.
Thanks.
Jeremiah Andrick
oh I forgot to add my linked in profile.
http://linkedin.com/in/jandrick
Hi Jeremiah,
Thanks for creating this helpful resource:
I am the Director of eCommerce Marketing at Waterford Wedgwood USA. My responsibilities include:
– Development of Social Media Strategy and Tactical Roadmap for Waterford.com, WedgwoodUSA.com and RoyalDoulton.com.
– Leveraging Social Media for Search Engine Optimization.
“ Internal education on emerging trends in social media.
– Online Reputation Management including monitoring the blogosphere for customer insights and feedback.
“ Legal liason for trademark infringement issues and development of Social Network Posting Guidelines.
http://www.linkedin.com/in/internetmarketingmanager
http://twitter.com/LeisaGlispy
Hello Jeremiah,
Great list and gives some better understanding in these roles and what the internal vs. external tasks are about.
Seems mostly US based, any chance you make this a global initiative?
Bram Boertjes
Channel Manager SPIL GAMES
http://www.twitter.com/brambo
Hello Jeremiah,
Thank you for taking the time to curate and share such a helpful resource.
I™m Rhonda Lowry and my title here at Turner Broadcasting System, Inc is Vice President, Social Media Technologies. I spend my time between technology, sociology and business so I’m not sure I fit neatly into your categorization scheme.
I research, teach, advise, consult, brainstorm and collaborate across our major news and entertainment networks and business units about that amorphous energy field universally labeled “social media” but in a hybrid model, that is adopting the principles inside the company with ourselves (i.e. “Enterprise 2.0”) and with our audiences and partners.
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/rhondalowry
Hi, Jeremiah. I started at the first of the year as social media manager for SAS, the business analytics software company. My job is devoted full time to social media and primarily inward-focused on developing our strategy but also focused outwardly, helping departments at SAS use social media for outreach. I just launched my external blog at http://blogs.sas.com/socialmedia. Here’s my LinkedIn profile:
http://www.linkedin.com/in/dbthomas
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Hi Jeremiah,
I hate to nominate myself for your list, however, I have been the Director of Emerging Media at PR Newswire (a global company with over 1000 employees) for 2.5years. While “emerging media” might be a little different “social media”, this was a title chose 2 years ago because my job is to stay on top of the trends and help my company to do so. There will always be some kind of new form of media, so it’s not always about what some people will define right now as “social media”.
http://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelpranikoff
Michael Pranikoff
Director, Emerging Media
PR Newswire
delicious.com/michaelpranikoff
twitter.com/mpranikoff
http://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelpranikoff
Hi Jeremiah,
Great idea putting together this list…would like to thrown my hat in the ring:
Name: Geoff Skow
Company: The Active Network
Title: Social Media Manager (¦externally focused)
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/geoffreyskow
Keep up the great work.
Best,
Geoff
Thanks everyone for the recent submissions, I see them but won’t get to updating this for a few more days.
Hey Jeremiah,
I wanted to update the list. I am no longer at Toyota; I am now Community Manager for http://www.crackle.com.
Thanks!
I’ll add Dirk as well
http://www.cmswire.com/cms/social-media/interview-with-dirk-shaw-vignettes-social-media-strategist-003846.php
http://www.linkedin.com/in/dbthomas This one too
http://www.signtific.org/en/users/natalie-villalobos
Hi Jeremiah,
I share the Community Manager role for the EMC Customer Support Forums at EMC. Ours is currently a community closed to customers only. We have nearly 100,000 registered users.
EMC is moving forward rapidly and I represent only part of where we’re going, other open communities also exist.
Thanks
Julie
Hi Jeremiah,
Great List! Please add me to your list. I’m the Online Marketing & Social Media Manager at http://www.pragmaticmarketing.com. It is a strategy based position that is externally focused.
I’m not sure if if I fit in the technology category or another.
Thanks!
Elizabeth Hannan
http://www.jivefromthehive.com
Opps! Forgot Linkedin Profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/elizabethhannan
-Elizabeth Hannan
Hi Jeremiah! Thanks for promoting this on Twitter last night. I’d like to add my name to your list, probably under the technology category.
I am the Social Media “Strategist” at CSC http://www.csc.com. Listed in the Fortune 500, CSC is a global consulting, systems integration and outsourcing company with 90K+ employees operating in over 80 countries. I am currently leading the business strategy for our corporate social media/collaboration, working with a number of global, cross functional experts.
Linked in profile was input as part of the ‘website’ form submission, but here it is listed out
http://www.linkedin.com/in/cflanagan
Jeremiah:
Please add me to the strategy section on your next list in the environmental or commercial real estate category. I missed the first one, but appreciated you highlighting me in your on the Move update earlier this year. http://www.web-strategist.com/blog/index.php?s=mark+Wallace
Thank you!
Mark
twitter: http://twitter.com/mwallcomm
linkedin: linkedin.com/in/mwallace6161
Jeremiah:
Three more for your list –
1. Bonin Bough who is heading up social media for PepsiCo.
2. Stan Joosten who runs P&G’s social media labs.
3. Lee Aase who heads up social media for the Mayo Clinic
TO’B
MotiveQuest LLC
Tom thanks!
Read the requirements, I need proof. Linkedin Profiles are helpful.
Hi Jeremiah and thanks for pulling this together. I™d like to add my name to your growing list under the Finance category.
Company: CME Group (www.cmegroup.com)
http://www.linkedin.com/in/allanschoenberg
The role I’m taking on at the exchanges (CME, CBOT, NYMEX) as Director of Corporate Communications is more Community Manager as I help reach out to customers. Right now I am the public face of the exchanges in the social media on Facebook and Twitter (@cmegroup).
Excellent list & resource. The number of people moving into this role and crafting the responsibilities and functions is pretty inspiring.
I came here via post @ readwriteweb.com (http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/hiring_a_community_manager.php).
That post was an excellent validation of the community manager idea that I’ve been working on and writing about for a little over a year now.
(http://www.radicalpowersports.com/re-enfocrement-validation-of-my-community-management-item/)
It will be interesting to see how well large companies are going to be able to let true community develop outside of iron-fisted PR and marketing control.
It’s a very cool time to be involved in this emerging area. So many new tools, techniques, and technology to really do new and exciting things!
Jeremiah, I was recently hired as the Director Of Social Media and Senior Consultant at Authority Domains. My role requires:
¢ Map the use of Social Networking to the business objectives of Global 2000 Authority Domains customers
¢ Enabling a Social Media presence for Authority Domains around Social Media Consulting, SEO Optimization & Link Building.
¢ Design and execute launch strategy on three Social Media Consulting solutions, designed for Small, Mid-Level and Enterprise level businesses.
¢ Provide clients with community best practices related to content development, event programming, online facilitation, member outreach, and business objectives
¢ Responsible for the creation of Social Media workshops and training based on client need, budget and time-line
¢ Cultivate and drive new sales opportunities with new and existing Authority Domains customers
¢ Execute a clear business plan based on budget, client acquisition and marketing plan.
¢ Provide valuable content to the marketplace to drive interactions about the Authority Domains product lines.
¢ Continue to be a Social Media thought leader at http://derekshowerman.com
I spent the first month on the job baking out the three Social Media Consulting products we will provide. I recently just finished posting those products here: http://www.authoritydomains.com/social-media-consulting/
Thanks for everything you do Jeremiah.
Hi Jeremiah:
First, thanks for the great site! It’s a regular source of good information for my team. I was recently named Strategy and Content Manager – Social Networking for Allstate Financial (#64 on the 2008 Fortune 500).
Here’s my LinkedIn profile, I’m happy to connect with anyone on this list, simply mention the post in your invite.
http://www.linkedin.com/in/benphoster
I am a strategist, focusing on structure and content for our community.
I’m happy to talk with you (or anyone) more about staffing/organizing social media efforts. I recently made 2 posts on my blog about 1) Pros/Cons of aligning Social Media under different functions (http://www.benphoster.com/?p=190) and 2) A staffing matrix for ensuring that you can staff a team with diverse talent (http://www.benphoster.com/?p=238)
Thanks for the site, keep up the great work.
Web Strategist at one of the largest Enterprise Software Companies.
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/vensonkuchipudi
Focused on all aspects of using Web technologies to drive growth. Currently focused on Social Media.
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Hi, Jeremiah,
I have accepted your challenge: “If you do not meet the requirements to meet this list, you can create your own, and I™ll prominently link to it.”
I wanted to join your great list, but sadly do not qualify, as I am responsible for an internal community of about 5000. So, I started my own list and would be grateful if you would, indeed, link to it: http://www.adventuresinsocialmedia.org/2009/04/list-of-online-community-managers.html
Your blog is a great resource — thanks for sharing so many of your ideas and insights.
–Ted Hopton
I manage strategic employee communication initiatives at Hewlett-Packard and as part of that am the HP Retiree Program sponsor. We have embarked on a social networking pilot to test the usefulness of social networking among past and present employees.
http://www.linkedin.com/profile?viewProfile=&key=1897215&locale=en_US&trk=tab_pro
Jill is working on a social networking pilot with HP retirees
Jeremiah,
I’m the VP digital media at Smithsonian Networks (which is owned by CBS). I manage all our digital media properties website, blog, facebook, youtube and community. Since we are a new cable channel with (for the moment anyway) limited distribution on cable and satellite providers we are using social media to get the word out that we’re here and we have great programming that you can watch on your TV, but also sample on other platforms. My linked in profile is here http://www.linkedin.com/profile?viewProfile=&key=369542&locale=en_US&trk=tab_pro
thanks,
Susanne Mei
VP Digital Media, Smithsonian Channel
Hey Jeremiah –
I’m the newly appointed Social Media Manager for Ruby Tuesday, Inc ( http://rubytuesday.com ) which is a publicly traded restaurant group. My role splits straight down your characteristics between strategist and community manager.
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/gavinbaker
Thanks for compiling the list.
Gavin Baker
Social Media Manager
Ruby Tuesday, Inc.
Hey Jeremiah,
I’ve recently joined the National University of Singapore Society as Director of Corporate Affairs and New Media (http://www.nuss.org.sg/web/viewarticle.aspx?id=300). My role on top of handling marketing, and corporate partnerships is to develop an integrated communications strategy employing all channels including social media, to connect and interact with our 14,000 members.
My linkedin profile is http://www.linkedin.com/in/hhtong
Thanks
HH Tong
Director, Corporate Affairs and New Media
National University of Singapore Society
Jeremiah,
Good to meet you last weekend at TWTRCON.
I was named full-time Sr. Producer, Social Media, at the Los Angeles Times in late November (announcement: http://latimes.com/sm), with “+ Emerging Media” added to my title soon after.
See http://latimes.com/unhub for links to the 30+ social outlets I’ve set up in the past 6 months. Currently, my role is about 50/50 internal/external. Soon, I hope to be able to clone myself (or, better yet, hire an assistant).
My linkedin profile is http://www.linkedin.com/in/andrewdeannystrom
Socially,
Andrew D. Nystrom / @latimesnystrom
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Hi Jeremiah,
Great list! Thanks for putting it together.
I’m one of the many at IBM involved in Social Marketing. I’m the Digital Strategist for Brand System, IBM Growth Markets (primarily: China, Australia, India, Russia, Czech Rep, Poland, Brazil). My role covers all things digital and social media is an ever increasing slice. I am the go-to person for SMM in Growth markets.
Rowan Watts
Digital Strategist, Brand System, IBM Growth Markets
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/rowanw
Blog: http://rowan.typepad.com/
Twitter: http://twitter.com/rohetherington
Many thanks again,
Rowan
Hi Jeremiah,
Great post and most timely as Tom Diederich just spoke to my class and Charlene Li will be speaking next week. I don’t have your email but want to confirm your speaking to my Stanford class on July 14. I also need to send you some information. Would you send me your email address and confirm that you will be coming to the class. Much thanks. Robin
Great resource! I™ll be sure to pass along the link during my presentation.
Nice list, I work as Digital Media Technologist at GizaPage.com and blog about “Social Media Marketing in India” at smm-strategist.com.
Kind Regards
Vijay Rayapati
Would like to update – Kelly Colgan, Media Relations Specialist at APC
New – Kelly Colgan, Media Relations Specialist, Schneider Electric
Enterprise Social Media Strategist
http://www.linkedin.com/in/donrua
http://twitter.com/donrua
Title: Sr. Product Manager for Web Services at Raymond James Financial
Working out of the marketing department, I’m responsible for all national branch website programs (1700+ sites), 22 corporate sites including http://www.raymondjames.com, and our corporate intranet. As such, I™ve been tasked with working with our director of Corp Comm, and key business unit managers to develop a social media strategy and guidelines for our associates, independent advisors, and corporate interests. Member of the SIFMA Internet Marketing Roundtable.
I’m very interested in connecting with peers in regulated industries, particularly Financial Services.
Jeremiah, you should really be using a Wiki for this list 🙂
Please add me to your enterprise social media strategist list in the agency category.
Jessica Smith, Vice President (Digital with focus on social media), Fleishman-Hillard.
My corporate bio can be found in the summary of my LinkedIn profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/jessicaknows
Hi Jeremiah – congrats again on the move to Altimeter Group. Please add me as a social media strategist, internal for a Fortune 500. I’ve been in the role for about 4 months now. Thanks.
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Would like to update “ previous – Kelly Colgan, Media Relations Specialist at APC
New “ Kelly Colgan, Media Relations Specialist, Schneider Electric
Hi Jeremiah,
Just came across your blog during the research I am conducting on online community management. Thanks for all of the work you’ve done in this area.
I am a UxD/IA/Content Strategist with a strong background working with pharma and healthcare clients both on the agency and client side. I welcome the opportunity for you to add me to the list of social media strategists in the area of healthcare.
Thanks.
LLT
A summary of my background and experience can be found on my LinkedIn profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/lisatrager
The list comprises of people that are technically minded and the leaders in a new innovation.
You have not listed communities that are social or promoting a product like Dell or there are a lot of other companies that need a strategist to brand them and be out there amongst there consumers and evangelists listening and moderating.
@Don…well put that “Building community online is not easy. And it™s not just for social networks anymore. Companies of all sizes, shapes and colors have recognized how important digital communities can be to their business, so many (if not most) are carving out positions specifically for community management. […]”
Thanks for the list, Jeremiah. Following are my deets:
Linda Skrocki
Sr. Community Program Manager/Owner
Sun Microsystems, Inc.
http://www.linkedin.com/in/lskrocki
Hi Jeremiah,
Greetings! Add me to Social Computing Strategists.
Venkatesh Kumar
Social Networking & Communities Manager
Brocade Communications Systems Inc.
Linkedin: http://www.linkedin.com/in/venkateshkumar
I noticed categories for technology and automotive, but not manufacturing? Other than GE (https://twitter.com/GE_Reports), is anyone aware of a manufacturing company with a solid social media platform?
Hello Jeremiah,
I am the social media strategist for Nitro Digital, Nitro Mobile and Nitro Ventures.
Good post
Not sure if I just missed this but how about:
Ken Burbary
Ernst & Young
Bonin Bough
Pepsi Co
Greg Matthews
Humana
Robert Stanke
Community Manager
Life Time Fitness, Inc.
We love your blog postings, so well add your rss or news feed for them, Thanks and please post us and leave a comment back and well link to you. Thanks Jen College Jobs.
Online Community Manager at studentSN Ltd.
http://de.linkedin.com/in/ayhankocak
Great project, Jeremiah!
I would like to nominate:
Name: Elliott Lemenager
Title: Social Media Specialist
Company: Grand Canyon University
http://www.linkedin.com/in/lemenager
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Please add me to the list!
Jordan Miller
Conversation Manager/Sr. Strategist (I'm externally-focused on CPG)
Organic, Inc.
http://www.linkedin.com/in/jordanbmiller
http://www.threeminds.com
Seems like Intel is taking this seriously. I've done searches in LinkedIn, added a few more.
Please add me:
Jaime Punishill, Directory Strategic Planning & New Channel Development, Citibank
It such a good day for me that i read your blog. Thanks for posting..
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Hi Jeremiah, here you go:
Matthew Milner, Vice President, Social Media, Hearst Digital Media, Hearst
http://www.linkedin.com/pub/matthew-milner/3/67…
Hi, great list you have going here.
I am the full-time Social Media Specialist for Meijer, Inc. we're a Midwest-based, 5-state, 200-store chain that is credited with pioneering the “hypermarket” model. My job walks a line between social media strategy and community management, with some involvement in internal social efforts as well.
You can find me online at: http://twitter.com/seelowitz, http://www.socialwitz.com/ (my blog) and http://www.linkedin.com/in/jonathanseely/
Thanks for providing this resource.
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Hi Jeri , the list u have offered is good enough bt the flow of information is kind of disorganized. I was trying to read this post and had to read 2 times in order to get what it is all about..
Cody Swann, Community Manager, ESPN
I also am Product focused, having overseen development for our social network;
http://www.linkedin.com/in/codyswann
Hi Jeremiah,
I really enjoyed your series on Social CRM. Please add me to your list for Technology Companies – Social Strategist.
I am currently Marketing Director, SAP North American Online Media and Social Strategy. I manage our paid and earned media programs in SAP North American Field Marketing from strategy to execution. Also driving coordination with our Global Brand, Communications and Community teams. We are looking to orchestrate Social Media tactics across many of your defined use cases. I hope we can connect.
My LinkedIn Profile:
http://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelbrenner
Nice post
Nice list! This saves me some time and effort in the proposal that I am compiling!
Thanks!
What about the Real Estate Industry? After all that industry makes up one third of our economy, I would think that would be an important catagory.
Thank you for your list. It helps me.
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Great resource! I™ll be sure to pass along the link during my presentation.
Excellent list & resource ! must read post for every social media people
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Fantastic list you have here! I would be most appreciative if you could add me to it.
I'm currently the Community Manager for govWin, the Deltek government contracting community.
My Linkedin profile: http://www.linkedin.com/profil…
My govWin profile: http://govwin.com/mysbx-profil…
my name zaidi i sell Indian dresses and Pakistani fashion clothes.
kindly add me
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Social media is one of the most used website nowadays, it’s indeed a very useful website; some people use it for business transaction.
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Robert Bowling owns all the community manager position. Do you know why because he is a stealth clown.
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