One of our first posts on the new RWW Jobwire site was about the hiring of Kellie Parker as the new community manager for gaming company Sega. Jobwire guest editor Sam Whitmore chose Parker's story as our first Featured Hire because of its significance to her former employer, tech publisher IDG, and the publishing industry in general.
Read on for Sam's take on the news.
"Kellie Parker's arrival at Sega is great news for her and for Sega. It's sad for PC World readers: an IDG layoff last month claimed her job. The best tech publishers employ community managers as a bridge between content and community. The skill set is rare. If anything, PC World was an early bird in recognizing this, but now Kellie is gone. Perhaps 'community manager' can be a freelance job. Must it be a staff job? What do you think?" [IDG is a paid subscriber to Sam Whitmore's Media Survey.] -Sam Whitmore (right)
For more discussion of this question, check out our previous post Do Startup Companies Need Community Managers?
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