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Re: How My Big Health Life Changes Make Me Feel Now, and a Spring Rhubarb Mignonette for Oysters

jimstorer — Sun, 21 May 2017 10:33:16 -0000

Thanks for sharing Maggie. Thrilled to hear you're in a good place and looking forward to hearing more about your permanent retail space. Enjoy those pancakes! :-)

Re: Eat Boutique • You’re going to see so many of these over the next...

jimstorer — Fri, 05 Dec 2014 11:32:36 -0000

Are those Best-Made tumblrs?!?!?

Re: 4 Marketing Lessons Learned From Running a Beer Mile

jimstorer — Thu, 13 Nov 2014 16:03:29 -0000

Your best work yet Dan. Well thought out and clearly articulated. I am, however, disappointed in lesson #4. I thought you knew better. Next time. SXSW 2015?

Re: SXSW PanelPicker

jimstorer — Tue, 02 Sep 2014 14:37:01 -0000

Margot has a way of making complex topics easy to understand without watering down the subject. I always walk away from her sessions a little smarter and feel like it's time well spent. Please give her a spot on the agenda in 2015!

Re: How We Select New Offices

jimstorer — Thu, 27 Feb 2014 11:35:47 -0000

Welcome to Boston Bob! Thanks for sharing your rationale for choosing our fair city for your newest office. You picked a good one in Adam Cohen, but you already knew that.

Re: 4 Reasons Why Wearable Computers Are OVERHYPED

jimstorer — Wed, 08 May 2013 10:34:39 -0000

The "privacy" debate interests me the most. I think we'll get past the other issues pretty easily, although that's certainly debatable. It seems to me what Glass does in most contexts is make public behavior MORE public. Certainly, if someone uses Glass to expose something you're doing in private, that's wrong. But what if they happen to capture something you're doing in public? Something like walking down a sidewalk, ordering a coffee at Starbucks or cheering on your favorite baseball team at the ball park? If your behavior is recorded and later exposed is that an invasion of your privacy? I don't think so. It's simply promoting/exposing something that's already public, for good or bad.

So maybe it all comes back to etiquette? I don't know, but it annoys me when people argue about losing their "privacy" in public. Get over it already.

Re: Community Manager & Strategist Training

jimstorer — Mon, 04 Feb 2013 16:19:31 -0000

Hi Sam - For the most part, the concepts in the CM course are relevant for both internal and external CMs. In the CS course, there's an entire module on Internal CM and the other sections provide a nice context to think about internal challenges. We don't have plans to build a course specifically on internal CM at this time. I hope this helps.

Jim

Re: Bitter American Clone | the Bottle Farm

jimstorer — Fri, 14 Dec 2012 11:12:47 -0000

Posts like this make me want to pull out my carboys and start brewing again. Thanks for sharing your journey.

Re: Exiting Facebook as a Marketing Vehicle

jimstorer — Tue, 13 Nov 2012 11:17:30 -0000

I've been struggling with this too Geoff. My FB "friends" swelled to the point that I was following acquaintances (and their content) and found I was missing updates from friends/family that really mattered to me. Instead of unfriending them, I've just removed their updates from my newsfeed. I'll be interested to hear how your experiment goes and what you opt to do. It's an interesting dilemma.

Re: Contact Us

jimstorer — Wed, 29 Aug 2012 07:31:10 -0000

Hi Thomas - Yes, members of TheCR Network receive Focus each month in addition to everything else that's included in membership. Let me know if you'd like me to send you more information.

Re: Contact Us

jimstorer — Wed, 29 Aug 2012 07:29:40 -0000

Hi Lars - I'll send you more information via email. Thanks for the feedback!

Re: SXSW PanelPicker

jimstorer — Tue, 14 Aug 2012 17:11:59 -0000

Yes! Another great session topic from Margot! Looking forward to being in the room for this one. Please don't put her on Friday or Tuesday afternoon.

Re: Book DNA: Summer Book Club

jimstorer — Fri, 15 Jun 2012 15:35:04 -0000

How about Steve Martin's "Born Standing Up"? It's been on my list for a bit. It's definitely NOT 50 Shades of Anything.

Re: Now Hiring: Virtual Assistant

jimstorer — Wed, 13 Jun 2012 21:52:45 -0000

Jesse - Congrats on posting my favorite comment ever. Seriously, #1 of all time.

We definitely have chosen not to spend a lot of money on our website, instead investing it in what matters to members. That's not to say we shouldn't do better and I'm taking your comments to heart and look forward to moving past this naive HTML-webpage and toward something that's as kick ass as our service.

Thanks for the wake-up call. :-)

Re: Danger: Community/Social Strategist Shortage Ahead

jimstorer — Mon, 21 May 2012 10:03:31 -0000

Andrew - Great points. We agree that there is a lot of opportunity for folks with a communications background to migrate into community management. The coming talent gap I see has more to do with the senior level strategist, which every company will eventually want to have in house, but is in short supply. Existing CMs will grow into that roll, but I don't expect them to do it quickly enough to fill the gap that's already underway. We'll see. :-)

Jim

Re: Danger: Community/Social Strategist Shortage Ahead

jimstorer — Wed, 16 May 2012 12:57:44 -0000

Thanks for the comment David! That's consistent with what I'm hearing from others. What sort of experience are you looking for in those roles? Can they come with less experience and more training and still be a fit?

Re: Danger: Community/Social Strategist Shortage Ahead

jimstorer — Wed, 16 May 2012 12:56:15 -0000

Thanks for commenting C_O... I think that's true in some (shortsighted??) organizations. To truly benefit from social/community, it requires a more holistic approach and can't reside under marketing, iMHO.

Re: Community Manager Training Scholarship – Apply Today

jimstorer — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 10:57:54 -0000

Hi Cat - We're working on putting that up as an on-demand course. More info coming soon.

Jim

Re: SXSW Interactive 2012: Key Takeaways

jimstorer — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 12:24:01 -0000

Good takeaways Aaron... a couple thoughts:
- The new ambient awareness apps have limited utility until they solve the "battery problem." Running them consumes the iphone battery so quickly it makes the value they provide hard to justify. Keeping your iphone/android charged took center stage this year at SXSW, with many considering Mophie the winner of the annual buzz war. Fedex had people roaming the halls of ACC as mobile charging stations. Really? I deleted Highlight, Sonar, Ban.jo a couple days in because I couldn't figured out how to keep them from chewing through my battery. Not ready for prime time.
- Couldn't agree more on the fragmentation of customer engagement. Brands need to invest in people/agencies that can help them stay on top of it all and create content/facilitate conversations on disparate platforms.
- Burnout is growing. Implementing/growing/evolving a brand's social presence is hard work and the people on the front lines are tired. I'm in the midst of writing a post on this - be on the lookout. :-)

Jim Storer
@jimstorer

Re: Community Management Education (and Certs) a Sound Investment –Yet Experience Trumps All

jimstorer — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 17:47:27 -0000

Hi Nathalie - I helped develop the community manager certificate program with WOMMA & ComBlu and can say we agree on nearly all your points. We heard from customers and friends that they wanted an option to bring their teams up to speed on what community management was all about. They were scaling from 1-2 CMs to 10-20 CMs relatively quickly and wanted an cost-effective solution.

In building the first module, we solicited input from current CMs to hear what they thought was important to explore with students in the course. We did our best to create a balance of perspectives, including both thought leaders and practitioners in the different segments. These real world, peer-based experiences are a very important part of what we've developed. This is very much a peer-based educational experience.

By no means is this course finished. We'll learn from the first run, adapt the content based on feedback and changes in the market and evolve the course. We talk with community managers every day (some in TheCR Network, some not) and roll that into our perspective. This comment thread is a great example of that in action. We're listening.
Thanks - Jim

Re: My Own Adventure in Wayfaring: Saying Farewell to Radian6

jimstorer — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 10:21:51 -0000

Congrats and good luck on the next chapter! Reach out if I can be of any help.

Re: #TheCRLive Lunches

jimstorer — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 16:41:18 -0000

Thanks for the heads up Ari. It's open again. Not sure what happened.

Re: Facebook = Accountability at its finest. And I’m down a whopping 18 pounds. And holy shit 3Ring Media logos!

jimstorer — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 11:00:33 -0000

Congrats Sydney! Keep it up!

Re: A tricky balancing act

jimstorer — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 11:21:48 -0000

I haven't given it much thought. Given the DM spam he was getting it might have been the only option. I don't have that problem (yet) and lists seem to help me see what matters.

+1 on the teleporter.

Re: A tricky balancing act

jimstorer — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 11:08:31 -0000

Hi Dave - I'm feeling your pain. Just last night I trimmed a bunch of folks from my Facebook profile to streamline my experience there a little. I probably need to do a little more pruning. I'm trying to get better about managing my lists on Twitter so I see the people that really matter to me (personally and professionally) on a regular basis. I haven't even begun to tap into the power of G+... it's just too much at the moment.

I guess my advice is to take it all in stride. Jump in when you can and interact with conversations and people that matter to you at that moment. Don't get bogged down trying to be everything to everyone. Share what you can, when you can and don't apologize.

The balancing act you bring up is an important one. I try to remember it's just as (or more) important to nurture your offline relationships as the online ones. Jay Baer wrote an important article on this topic the other day.
http://www.convinceandconve...

Stay cool!

Jim | @jimstorer