{"id":4605,"date":"2009-09-16T05:32:33","date_gmt":"2009-09-16T12:32:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.web-strategist.com\/blog\/?p=4605"},"modified":"2009-09-16T05:45:47","modified_gmt":"2009-09-16T12:45:47","slug":"people-on-the-move-in-the-social-media-industry-sept-16-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/2009\/09\/16\/people-on-the-move-in-the-social-media-industry-sept-16-2009\/","title":{"rendered":"People on the Move in the Social Media Industry: Sept 16, 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"onthemove by jeremiah_owyang, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/jeremiah_owyang\/2244631158\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2160\/2244631158_f10e018719_o.jpg\" alt=\"onthemove\" width=\"480\" height=\"116\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Despite a downturn in the economy, we continue to recognize those moving in the social media space. I&#8217;ve started this post series (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.web-strategist.com\/blog\/category\/on-the-move\/\">see archives<\/a>) to both track and congratulate folks who get promoted, move, or accept new exciting positions. Please help me congratulate the following folks:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Former colleague covering social and enterprise <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.strategicheading.com\/2009\/09\/14\/leaving-forrester-joining-jive\/\">Oliver Young departs Forrester to join Jive Software as a Senior Product Manager<\/a>.   This is an excellent move for Oliver, as well as for Jive.  I always admired Oliver for his keen quantitative skills as a colleague, and ability to decipher the moves in the industry. @OliverYoung <\/li>\n<li>Simon Collister, formerly Head of Digital at Weber Shandwick <a href=\"http:\/\/wearesocial.net\/blog\/2009\/09\/simon-social\/\">>has joined We Are Social<\/a> to head up public sector and not-for-profit work as an account director at social media shop, We Are Social. @simoncollister <\/li>\n<li>Passenger, what I call an &#8216;insight community vendor&#8217; that fosters communities for brands that want to better understand their customers <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thinkpassenger.com\/sub.php?mod=press_releases&#038;item=273\">has named Michael Winner as SVP of Technology<\/a>. He hails from Blink Logic as the CTO, and will spearhead product dev, QA and IT.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/advice.cio.com\/c_g_lynch\/thank_you_cio_com\">Congrats to Christpher Lynch<\/a>, who did excellent reporting at \tCIO.com with a strong focus on micoblogging and other web topics.  His interest in the topic has landed him at SocialText, a company that provides social and enterprise here in Palo Alto.  He&#8217;ll be involved with marketing and will utilize his skills and background from mainstream media, I&#8217;ll be watching for the launch of his new blog @cglynch<\/li>\n<li>MindTouch has filled it&#8217;s Community Manager\/Customer Advocate Role. We are excited to have Katherine Smith (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/katjsmith\">LinkedIn Profile<\/a>) join from HL2. At HL2, she was Director of Marketing Strategy for Microsoft clients and created the social marketing strategy for SharePoint Social Computing.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>How to connect with others (or get a job):<\/strong><br \/>\nSeveral people have been hired because of this blog post series, here&#8217;s how you can too:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Submit an announcement<\/strong><br \/>\nIf you know folks that are moving up in the social media industry, leave a comment below, or if you&#8217;re feeling shy (it&#8217;s cool to self-nominate) send me an email. Please include a link to your announcement, and ensure you&#8217;re really living and breathing in the social media world &#8211;this is not a small aspect of your role.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Seeking Social Media Professionals?<\/strong><br \/>\nIf you&#8217;re seeking to connect with community advocates and community managers there are few resources<\/p>\n<p><strong>List of Enterprise Social Media Professionals<\/strong><br \/>\nThis list, which started with just 8 names continues to grow as folks submit to it.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.web-strategist.com\/blog\/2008\/06\/20\/list-of-social-computing-strategists-and-community-managers-for-large-corporations-2008\/\">List of Social Computing Strategists and Community Managers for Enterprise Corporations 2008  Social Media Professionals<\/a>.  Other job resources include:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/webstrategy.jobamatic.com\/a\/jbb\/find-jobs?sb=1&amp;sbo=1\">Web Strategy Jobs powered by Job o Matic<\/a> (Post a job there and be seen by these blog readers, these affiliate fees pay for my hosting)<\/li>\n<li>Read Write Web keeps announcements flowing at  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.readwriteweb.com\/jobwire\/\">Jobwire<\/a>, although is broader than just social media jobs<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/group.php?gid=3553055120\"><span style=\"color: #000000; text-decoration: none;\">Facebook group for <\/span><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/group.php?gid=3553055120\">community manager group in Facebook<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.communityguy.com\/jobs\/\">Jake McKee&#8217;s community portal for jobs<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Chris Heuer&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.socialmediajobs.com\/\">Social Media Jobs<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.simplyhired.com\/a\/jobs\/list\/q-social+media\">SimplyHired<\/a> aggregates job listings, as does <a href=\"http:\/\/www.indeed.com\/jobs?q=social+media&amp;l=\">Indeed<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.forumonenetworks.com\/section\/jobs\/\">ForumOne Jobs<\/a> for Social Media and Community<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/teresacentric.com\/jobs\/\">Teresa has a few jobs, some around community<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newmediahire.com\/\">New Media hire has an extensive job database<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.socialmediaheadhunter.com\/\">Social Media Headhunter<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.socialmediajobs.com\/\">Social media jobs<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jobsinsocialmedia.com\/\">Jobs in social media<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/wiki.altimetergroup.com\/?t=anon\">Altimeter Group&#8217;s list of social media consultants and agencies<\/a><\/li>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Hiring? Leave a comment<\/strong><br \/>\nIf you&#8217;re seeking candidates in the social media industry, many of them are within arms reach, feel free to leave a <em>link <\/em>to a job description (but not the whole job description, please)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite a downturn in the economy, we continue to recognize those moving in the social media space. I&rsquo;ve started this post series (see archives) to both track and congratulate folks who get promoted, move, or accept new exciting positions. Please help me congratulate the following &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/2009\/09\/16\/people-on-the-move-in-the-social-media-industry-sept-16-2009\/\" class=\"more-link\"><span>Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">People on the Move in the Social Media Industry: Sept 16, 2009<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[100,89],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-career","category-on-the-move"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4605\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}