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Community Managers: Where Do You Want To Go?
We recently stumbled upon a great group of people dedicated to the promotion of the fastest growing specialty in social media. The position of Community Manager, in our opinion, is growing to a size and scope that warrants its own professional classification.
via Community Managers: Where do you live? | My Community Manager.
What is MyCMGR.com?
My Community Manager provides mentors for students looking to become community managers, a community for existing community managers and a resource for companies looking to hire community managers.
But that’s not all….
Much like chemistry grew from alchemy (the task of trying to turn lead into gold) Community management is more than PR. Community Management is the science of understanding how to create many important products from all the social elements. At Social Flights, we are developing a new class of business methods that will rely heavily on the skills and tool set of the Community Manager. It is our suspicion that we are not alone in our requirements for this emerging profession.
Community Organization:
Socia Flights is more than a charter airline, we are a ride sharing system for private jets. In order for our transactions to be most equitable to the traveler, we need the community to self-organize around a collection of airline inventory without using a hub airport. This is not an easy problem to solve and herein lies the perfect game for the modern community manager.
Our vision for the future…
Social Flights envisions a Community Organizer to be able to look at data related to where people want to go and match it to available aircraft that can take them there. Next, the organizer needs to find people who want to return on the empty airplane after the first passengers are dropped off. Each time, the community organizer creates new data and feeds it back into the system.
As the system of data from all CO’s gets larger, it will become easier for the organizer to make connections in their specialty. In the big picture; every shared asset in a community from airplanes, cars, hotels, schools, and even government agencies can be operated by experienced community organizers. Now imagine that all this can happen outside the construct of the familiar “corporation”
MyCMGR.com works with:
- Students My Community Manager provides education through mentorships and internships with existing community managers and businesses to prepare them as qualified candidates.
- Community Managers My Community Manager brings together community managers from companies of all sizes and types to further expand the role and knowledge of this growing position.
- Companies My Community Manager works with companies to provide qualified candidates for the role of community manager and as a resource for job descriptions, industry updates and best practices.
To Have Or To Have Not
I often feel “Lost” as I continuously review what is happening in the air transportation industry. So many people are stranded in time and place by the anxieties, harassment, and limitation the air transportation system. It is only getting worse as airlines push in and pull out of markets with abandon disrupting the dreams and aspirations of millions of people with the stroke of keyboard.
Or, perhaps it is the holiday season now upon us that leads me along the nostalgic trail of family and friends who I miss so dearly. Or, it could be the recession that forces me to look outside my own community to achieve economic security in these difficult times. Meanwhile; social media technology increases my exposure to like minded people, new ideas, and a bewildering array of events and opportunities – many of which I can no longer access efficiently.
The easy thing to do would be to accomodate the situation and limit my goals and aspirations to that which others serve up to me on the platter of their choice. I could simply give up and be content with my lot in life as determined by others. I could dedicate my talent, education, and experience to lesser parochial tasks that happen along the jungle trail.
Or, I can seek the vulnerabilities of the forces that control my ability to travel. I can exploit weaknesses in their business model and I can find others willing to join forces to bypass those externalities altogether.
I have chosen the latter and in the process, I have met some of the smartest, engaging, and interesting people that I could have imagined. I no longer flash back to the past – I flash forward to the future. That is the secret ingredient to never being stranded in the choices of others.
2012 will be the tipping point for many people. I believe that communities will begin to organize around the assets that government and corporations can no longer provide. Communities will make the choices that determine their own future, sanctity, and preservation. Self-organization will become the fabric of the social landscape.
My job it to show people that there is no reason why they cannot run their own airline; any where and any time they choose.