Welcome to the Home of the Community Manager

May 31, 2011

David Spinks

Welcome to TCM, the community for the community manager!

The “community manager” is the hot job title of the day. They’re like pokemon…everyone wants one but they’re not sure why.

Many don’t know that the title has actually existed for a long time. It’s only through the growth of social media that it’s evolved, and grown to such popularity.

With its quick growth, however, the role of the community manager has become harder to define.

This site will be your resource for all things related to community managers. We’ve assembled the top community managers from a wide range of brands and startups to share their experience and knowledge.

Here, you’ll find:

A community for community managers, where they can feel comfortable sharing their questions and experiences
Tips and advice for community managers and the companies hiring them
Case studies on what community managers are doing on a day-to-day basis. What works, and what doesn’t.
Job opportunities
Events related to community managers, and hosted by us
The home of the #cmgrchat, the twitter chat focused on community managers
Much more to come…

Here, you have the new home of the community manager.

There are a lot of great groups and content out there related to community management. We want TCM to bring all of that together in one core.

Make sure to subscribe to the RSS feed or you can subscribe by email.

Drop us a comment and let us know what you think of the site, and what you’d like to see here.

David Spinks

David Spinks, Co-Founder TheCommunityManager.com was a part of the TCM team from the site’s inception through 2014. He utilized TCM to create the first CMX conference in San Francisco in February 2014, and then ultimately severed ties with TCM and its co-founders.
TheCommunityManager.com, CMXSummit and LetsFeast.com. Lifelong student, community builder and writer.

15 Comments

7huck on May 31, 2011 at 8:39 pm

The pokemon analogy really resonates, I feel like the discipline’s very mystical. Let’s develop “tips for the companies that hire them” 🙂

Thanks to the 3 of you for putting this together (& nice meeting you two dudes at blogworld). Now when’s thecommunitymanager launch party!?
DavidSpinks on May 31, 2011 at 8:58 pm

Thanks! Glad to have you here Judi.

That’s a great question for Brett. (=
sjhalestorm on May 31, 2011 at 9:03 pm

@7huck Gotta catch ’em all
MatthewRay on May 31, 2011 at 9:19 pm

Congrats on the launch of TCM!
AmyDonnelly on May 31, 2011 at 9:45 pm

Congrats on the launch – looking forward to all of the great things to come
JanetAronica on June 1, 2011 at 1:45 am

Yeah buddy!
JeffSlobotski on June 1, 2011 at 5:12 am

Congrats David!
jennalanger on June 1, 2011 at 5:27 am

The site looks pretty snazzy right now, but it’s nothing compared to what its going to become once it get’s filled with amazing content and conversation from some of the smartest people I know. Looking forward to calling this one of my homes online 🙂
jennalanger on June 1, 2011 at 5:28 am

@7huck I think ya’ll should come out to SF and we’ll throw a CM party at our new office 🙂
Jmodio on June 1, 2011 at 5:39 am

Looks great! It’s been amazing meeting so many great people in the world of Community Managers. I’ve learned so much so far and I look forward to giving my two cents in the future.
DavidSpinks on June 1, 2011 at 5:00 pm

@JeffSlobotski Thanks brother! We’re really excited to see where we can take this thing (=
DavidSpinks on June 1, 2011 at 5:00 pm

@JanetAronica yeaaaaa buddy.
DavidSpinks on June 1, 2011 at 5:01 pm

@jennalanger hell yes. We need some livefyre community managers sharing their expertise up in this bitch.
40deuce on June 2, 2011 at 2:32 pm

Looks great guys!!

Cheers,

Sheldon, community manager for Sysomos
Jasonmkey on June 2, 2011 at 11:51 pm

Love the design. Love the idea.

Really excited about this