The Community Manager

Tera Kristen

Tera Kristen dove headfirst into managing communities for tech startups, brands, and products, and she hasn't come up for air yet. She is passionate about community psychology, communications and customers. You can find her writing on her blog, tweeting or learning Russian.
Community-Centered Design

Community-Centered Design

Imagine you could build your own online community from scratch. Given what you as a community manager know, you would probably be using community-centered design to help achieve your goals. What is community-centered design? Perhaps the easiest way to explain...

Fumbled Your Community? Here’s How to Recover

Fumbled Your Community? Here’s How to Recover

I was a wide-eyed manager of an infant community. Our mobile app Kik Messenger was just gaining traction. There were a couple hundred Facebook fans, I talked to people every day in smartphone forums and I received a smattering of emails that I dutifully responded to...