This week has been quite busy so far. It started off with a workshop on Community Management on Monday and Tuesday. The workshops were the completion of an idea I got 1.5 years ago while attending an Open Source Think Tank in Napa Valley. At that time I met Jono Bacon, the Community Manager for Ubuntu and got the idea that he could come and have a talk with us about what it means to be a Community Manager.
One and a half years later he’s been here and had the talk, and it was better than anticipated 🙂
For anyone that wonders what community managers do, you can have a look at Jono’s book that is available for free here. It’s available under Creative Commons CC BY-NC-SA 3.0.
Wednesday was also dedicated to Jono’s visit. We had a round table discussion on what community management could mean to SONY. After the round table discussion we headed directly to Keio University so Jono could talk for a group of students there. I joined because I wanted to show Sony Mobile’s openness and support for open source.
After the talk at the Keio University we had a quick dinner with some of the students before we sent Jono to the airport for his flight back to California.
Sounds interesting. :-O
Do you have a community manager for Sony Playstation Network? I think there’s a lot of potential there, right now it’s kind of limited and clunky imo.
It was interesting.
I would guess they don’t, but actually don’t know… That’s a first 😉
Ha, ha, maybe I misunderstood what a community manager is/does. I thought of someone who “manages” online communities and brands, like some sort of system builder creating a place where people can communicate and interact in different ways – like a plattform for multiplayer gaming and things related (forum discussions, hardware development, and other neat stuff). Maybe I should have read Jono’s book ha, ha. 😀
Too tired now though… 😛