IBM, university develop courses in Web 2.0

19.10.2006

What is the new community manager role that you see evolving in enterprises to manage these social tools? All the companies that consider implementing these [communities] are thinking about how to set up blogs, forums and RSS feeds. You need a responsible party to handle that. A community manager will help the leaders in the company or other employees learn how to blog, how to produce content in a wiki or how to create a podcast. If each person has to do this effectively on their own, that is wasted time. A community manager focuses corporate goals. It is a multidisciplinary role ... an information manager role that falls somewhere in between [IT and the business]. People will come from both sides.