Five Years of ManagingCommunities.com
As of yesterday, ManagingCommunities.com is 5 years old.
Over the last 5 years, the profession of online community management has grown in popularity in a very meaningful way. It certainly wasn’t as trendy 5 years ago when I started this blog, 10 years ago, when I started writing “Managing Online Forums,” or 13 years ago when I started managing my own communities.
It’s been fun to watch and I’m grateful that my writing has been well received and that I have had the opportunity to help as many people as I have.
Thank you to everyone who has supported my work in community management, both here and elsewhere. Whether it is sharing my work, buying a book, offering me a kind word in private or in public, it always means something to me and when I see it, I do my best to thank people directly so that I don’t have to try to remember to do it later or include a list of names in a post like this. If you have supported my work and I haven’t thanked you, please know that I am thankful.
How can I help you in 2013? Please feel free to let me know. Thanks.
Patrick
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Congratulation! Keep on raising the bar in CM and I hope to be able to read more in the upcoming 5(0) years ;)
Best
Ben
Congrats, Patrick!
Most businesses have now met their consumers on social networks and begin to ask questions about hosting communities. Communities are on the rise and you play an important part in this conversation. Thank you! Five (and 13) more years!
Thank you Ben and Bruno! I really appreciate it.
Patrick
Congratulations on this milestone! And thank you for all the work you’ve done in this field. You’ve provided a great resource for all of us here with this site. :)
Thanks Jeremy. :)
That is awesome!
Congrats for all these hardwork and dedication!
Keep the spirit!
Thank you for the kind words, Khayrattee. :)
My only regret is I didn’t find you sooner.
Only been with you a few months now but in those few months your blog and advice has been a tremendous eye opener and an even bigger help.
My favourite part of my day is when I login to my community and see a big list of new recent posts. Some from regulars, and increasingly more from newbies who’ve signed up while I’ve been sleeping and jumped right in.
When I pop into the chat rooms and see a dozen people chatting and joking around whereas 2 months ago I’d have been the only one in there waiting for a newbie to arrive to entertain them.
There’s no better feeling than that; and I do credit a lot of it to what I’ve taken away from people such as yourself & Martin Reed.
The forums in particular, your blog posts on how to engage new members and make their integration as smooth and easy as possible.
You provide your experiences, knowledge and battle tested strategies and leave people to either take it away and use it to their best abilies.
For that thank you and keep up the great work, you are appreciated!
Thank you, Tommy. That is very kind of you to say. It means a lot.
Patrick
Whilst there are people, there will always be communities, whether it be living on the streets, in prison, on stage at the theatre, at the bus-stop, in the bar, at work in an office, your neighbours, or on the internet.