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In honor of Community Manager Day, I thought it would fun and worthwhile to share some tips with employers looking for the perfect community manager for their business.

The community manager role is more relevant now than ever, and the numbers show it. In a joint research report released by Booz and Co. and Buddy Media, titled Campaigns to Capabilities, brand marketers said that hiring full-time employees is the number one investment they are making in social media. Furthermore, 63% of all social media teams have dedicated community managers, and 59% of social media teams plan to hire full-time community managers in the near future.

So, if you are one of the many companies looking for a community manager, what are the qualities any candidate absolutely must have? Here are the top five things to look for in a community manager:

As a thank you to our loyal readers and community, ReadWriteWeb is partnering with ThinkGeek to give away a few fun and geeky prizes. Today is the final day of our holiday trivia challenge, so put on your thinking caps!

The way this extremely complex game works is that we'll give you a few cool trivia tidbits to wow you with our vast knowledge of the cool but unimportant and then we'll close with a trivia question that we do hope will stump you. You can dig deep into the recesses of your brain (or Google) and answer via the comments on the post. The best answer, according to the RWW staff, will win the prize of the day, kindly donated for your geeky pleasure from ThinkGeek.

Another year has come and gone, and it's time to recap 2011 in all its glory. While most of our recaps will educate you, I hope this one, filled with the top comments from your peers, will inspire you (or at least make you giggle). So whether this list has you nodding your head or gnashing your teeth, we're happy to have played a part in your life this year.

Of course, this list is subjective, so please let us know what you think about the voices we've chosen.

Facebook's frictionless sharing is not as popular as the company might have hoped. While they tout an easy way to share your current activity, others fear a world that documents our every move. Richard sees it more of a redefinition of sharing by Facebook and Marshall thinks it's just plain wrong and a lost opportunity. And though Scott points out that you certainly can "opt-out" of frictionless sharing, he also wonders if you should have to do so.

Do you want to share everything with everyone or is the idea of sharing your every move just a bit freaky to you too?

We asked and culled your responses from Facebook, Google+ and Twitter and we used Storify to present it all back to you. If you have additional responses, please leave them in the comments.

HR 3261 has riled up the internet and with good reason. We take a look at the effects of the new bill, in an easy to follow infographic from the folks at AmericanCensorship.org. All of this and more in the ReadWriteWeb Weekly Wrap-up.

After the jump you'll find more of this week's top news stories on some of the key topics that are shaping the Web - Location, App Stores and Real-Time Web - plus highlights from some of our six channels. Read on for more.

On November 15, 2011, we're throwing a ReadWriteWeb Meetup near you! There are several great meetups planned already, but it's not too late to put one together for your locale.

The meetup in Seoul will be held at Shakr Media HQ and is going to be held at 7:30pm. More information on the location can be found on the Seoul Meetup page.

Another blogger has been murdered in Mexico, hung from the same bridge two other bloggers were hung from last month. This and more in today's Daily Wrap.

Sometimes it's difficult to catch every story that hits tech media in a day, so we wrap up some of the most talked about stories. We give you a daily recap of what you missed in the ReadWriteWeb Community, including a link to some of the most popular discussions in our offsite communities on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and Google+ as well. This is a new feature at ReadWriteWeb so we covet your feedback. If you have suggestions, please leave them in the comments below or reach out to me directly at robyn at readwriteweb.com.

Earlier today we shared our tech routine. We thought it would be interesting to see what our readers did each and every morning to catch up on the news that's happened while they slept.

What's your morning tech routine?

We asked and culled your responses from Facebook, Google+, Twitter and the the original post and we used Storify to present it all back to you. If you have additional responses, please leave them in the comments.

A big problem for the nearly half a million apps available in the Apple App store is that they each lack an easily shareable social narrative that would empower users to buy.

San Francisco-based Kinetik, is trying to solve that problem and today launched an app-sharing application for the iPhone that looks at what your friends and potential friends are using and makes suggestions based on those apps to you.

While these may seem unrelated, as we covered Steve Jobs' resignation as CEO of Apple this week and the 20th Anniversary of Linux, the question kept swimming through our collective heads. We debated it internally, we tossed snide comments back and forth, each firm in our own conviction that our favorite model was the right one. But, though we're sure you can't change our minds, which do you think has had more of an impact, Steve Jobs and Apple or Linux, and the community behind it?

You answered and we culled your responses on Facebook and Twitter and used Storify to present it all back to you. If you have additional responses, please leave them in the comments.