Online community organizer
Came across a nice writeup on A VC today in which Fred Wilson and Joel Spolsky talked about the value of a key activity within a startup, that of the community organizer. As Joel notes, this is an entirely new type of role, which has a value that is only now being recognized.
Online communities require both software and people. Sometimes the software part is the easier part. Curating communities is hard work and requires people to do it. It is an inherently social behavior. This job will be sort of like being a community organizer at a non-profit. It combines elements of marketing, PR, and sales, but it’s really something different. I don’t expect that there are a lot of people out there who already know how to do this well, so I’m going to train them, personally. Everyone who joins the program (and survives for a year) will come out with an almost supernatural ability to take a dead, lifeless site on the internet and make it into the hottest bar in town. That’s a skill worth learning for the 21st century.
It's amazing to me, as someone who entered the job market ten years ago this month how jobs have changed over the course of those 10 years. Interesting to consider what cutting edge roles might be discussed in another 10...
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