Today is YOUR day Community Managers! Celebrate, dance…call in sick and treat yourself to a spa day! Whatever you do with yourself today, know that you are an appreciated and vital component of how business gets done in 2012. Your role is more inportant each year as you bravely carve out and define your place in the professional ecosystem.

Started in 2010 by Jerimiah Owyang, Community Manager Appreciation Day is a day where the world is called upon to acknowledge who you are and what you do. I personally want to applaud your bravery and your passion. Now, more than ever the world is aware of what it is that you bring to the table. Every year, because each of you push the boundaries and strive for clarity in your role…we all get to understand social media and your role in this space better than we did the year before.

The Infographic below from Social Fresh is very succint and quite telling. Social Fresh has also published The 2012 Community Manager Report white paper. Do have a look at that! Enjoy the Infographic and enjoy the day!

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Updated 2011 World of Social Media Video Infographic

December 24, 2011
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2011 has been yet another banner year for social media. As marketers, it is necessary for us to keep tabs on developing trends as well as the past. The metrics that got us here are our chronicle. This video-Infographic is an excellent visual representation of where we are and from whence we came. I’m pretty [...]

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Social Media, Work Dynamics, & Life – The Two Score and Five Year Lens

September 28, 2011
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So yeah, this is the first day of my 45th year on the planet…of course I’m reflecting! I really just wanted to jot down a few things to keep you in the loop and as an archive of sorts. Remember the “Social Media Case Study Starting Today” I wrote back in May of 2010? I [...]

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Need A Website In Like, 30 Minutes? (1/2 Of All Small Businesses Don’t Have One!) Quick Fix:

August 25, 2011
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I love it when something turns out to be exactly “as advertised”, don’t you?  I love it even more when a product or a service makes something a little bit easier for struggling small businesses. Today I am super-pleased to introduce you to Onepager. Onepager is a service that allows you to create a dandy [...]

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Stay Tuned – Big Social Media News Today At 11a.m. PST

August 23, 2011
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It would appear that we are all to receive some earth shattering social media news today at 11a.m. PST (I’ll be sitting at my comp with an hour cleared at 2p.m. EST!). Robert Scoble stated late last night in his Google+ stream that “Google+ has been matched by a competitor”. Robert is apparently bound by a [...]

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Social Media, Blogging, And Email – A Right And A Wrong Time For Everything

July 7, 2011
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The following infographics from Kissmetrics certainly do reveal much. They go a long way toward answering the second most common question that small businesses ask me on a regular basis - “What’s the best time to launch blog posts, tweets, & Facebook status updates?” (the first is a pretty fair tie between “Can you explain what kind of results [...]

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Social Networking Sites And Our Lives (Latest Report from Pew Internet & American Life Project)

June 16, 2011
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I am fascinated this morning by a new report today from Pew Internet & American Life Project. The Facebook data alone that is contained in this report should prove to be infinitely valuable to marketers. The data was collected by Princeton Survey Research Associates International via phone from a sample of 2255 adults age 18 and older. The [...]

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The Greatest Social Media Video Ever…Redux

June 13, 2011
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Is social media a fad? This is the question that Erik Qualman set out to answer almost two years ago with his groundbreaking first video, Social Media Revolution. Skillfully put together and jam-packed with statistics that boggle the mind, the first video still moves me every time that I watch it. Erik has tirelessly revised [...]

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Here’s Your Marketing and/or Social Media Lesson for Today (Case Study)

June 1, 2011
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I want you to take a look today, if you will, at an initiative that was launched yesterday by the fine folks at Seth Godin’s Domino Project. I think that you’ll find some ideas and a chunk of real inspiration here, I know I did. Actually, I’m not even going to be coy about it, [...]

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