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Drinks – Tonite in London

jen — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 12:10:03 +0000

What? A casual pub evening where you can chat f2f with fellow e-minters. We’re a friendly bunch so don’t worry if you don’t know anyone (or know faces!)

Where? The Square Pig, 30-32 Proctor Street, London, United Kingdom (map below)

When? Thursday 11th February, 6pm-11pm (drop in during this time period)

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Community Manager Appreciation Day

jen — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 13:16:48 +0000

This past Monday (Jan 24) was the first ever Community Manager Appreciation Day.

It’s such a great idea! Not sure why it’s taken so long for an actual day to be proposed. But now it has and lots of thanks to Jeremiah Owyang’s post on the idea.

If you missed Jeremiah’s post, Community Manager Appreciation Day will be held on the 4th Monday of January each year. #CMAD is the hashtag.

He recommends you take time out and appreciate the following (of course use #CMAD):

the community person who helped to solve your customer problem
a coworker (and make sure their boss knows too)
yourself! (for all you community managers out there!)

Even though it’s now 2 days late, I’d still encourage you to share the community love & get to thanking people!

Looking to join e-mint?

jen — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 11:01:23 +0000

e-mint is an independent group of professionals who work in the area of online communities.

You can read more about us here.

The heart and soul of the group is the e-mail list hosted on Yahoo Groups.

If you’d like to join us, go to the e-mint group and click the blue ‘Join this Group!’ button.

Membership is free but we do vet new members. Please tell us a little bit about your interest in the organisation, your professional background, where you are located in the world and how you’re involved with communities. If someone referred you, please name drop.

to delete or not to delete

jen — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 09:50:42 +0000

deletion has been a topic of late on the list. what do you do with old abandoned threads/conversations? are they archived or deleted? & is that a ‘hard’ delete?

what other items might be deleted? what about communication between 2 members of the community?

what is your policy?

Raise awareness about bullying

jen — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 10:51:03 +0000

In the States, October 4-10th is National Bullying Prevention Awareness week and they have a site: Stomp Out Bullying. As part of the week, there is Blue Shirt Day on October 5th to help raise awareness.

According stats on their website, 1 out of 4 kids is bullied and 1 out of 5 admit to being a bully or exhibiting bullying behaviour. For cyberbullying, 1 out of 4 have been bullied online more than one time. 58% of the kids do not tell their parents or other adult when something mean or hurtful has happened online.

In Australia, the Communications & Media Authority launched Let’s Fight It Together. The 7 minute video and teachers guide is designed to give teens strategies to avoid and help others dealing with cyberbullying. They quote research saying an average of 7-10% of students in years 4-9 have been cyber bullied.

Also out of AU, interesting research this week from a QUT researcher who says cyber bullying has contributed to increasing numbers of crime by girls. Professor Kerry Carrington notes there needs to be programs which address this increase and acknowledgment that girls can be violent. article here.

What is happening in other countries to bring light to the issue?