OnMyList Blog: Tag community

Derek Powazek Joins our Team

Noah — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 21:41:00 -0500

Derek and I met at Zazie in Cole Valley for a late morning brunch way back in June. He didn’t know me from Adam at the time but graciously agreed to meet up since we were practically neighbors. I wanted to run OnMyList past Derek and see what what his thoughts on the website and space were. I think we had just launched a week or two earlier. After our meeting I decided it would be good to have his opinion a little more often and began exploring adding him to the advisory board. Four months later we have.

Derek has a great set of past experiences on all kinds of interesting stuff from design to communities to publishing to photography to chihuahuas (that’s a funny word to type by the way). He played key roles at Blogger, Technorati, and was the founder of user generated magazine JPG. Derek also wrote a seminal book on online communities titled, “Design for Community: The Art of Connecting Real People in Virtual Places.”

Derek joins our existing advisory board members, who I would be remiss not to mention, Jude Lange, Jim Spencer, and Jeff Wasson.

How to build a community according to Flickr

Noah — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 22:50:00 -0400

I found this interesting article about how to build a community on Business Week. In it, Heather Champ, Flickr community manager, gives 10 tips on how to foster a great passionate community. I think we’re getting some of them right and need work on others. I especially like Champ’s assertion that schwag is “one of the core pillars of the Internet.”

Any suggestions for us on what we can do better?

Read the article/slideshow here.

Community Guru

Noah — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 19:54:00 -0400

So you want to be a community guru huh? Well you’ve come to the right place. OnMyList is a burgeoning community that is spreading quickly for such a brand spanking new website. We just launched a little over a month ago and have already had over 100,000 unique visitors. We combine elements of blogging with elements of community. Throw in a dash of Digg, like the user voting element, and you have OnMyList.

Driving traffic is NOT building community. So one of the most important positions at OnMyList is the Community Relations Advocate. When you get the job, you can come up with a more snazzy title as your first order of business.

You’ll be responsible for all communications with existing members of OnMyList. It will be your responsibility to increase all usage numbers and to create high levels of satisfaction among users. You will also be expected to make the case for new developments that increase our chances of the above happening. You will have to work across almost every group in the company to make these things happen.

Qualifications:

Must be a very active member of at least 1, but preferably more, existing communities.
Must have exemplary written and verbal skills.
At least 5 years of solid work experience preferably in online space.
Good grasp of online marketing techniques is required.
Some technical fluency.
Must be a cool person to work with.
Absolutely must understand and commit to all of the things that come with a startup (creating processes, rolling sleeves up, working late/weekends, having fun)
College degree is essential

This position is in San Francisco, CA.

This position comes with equity and responsibility. Salary and health insurance will also be provided.

We are committed to being a very fun place to work and socially responsible company. Giving back will be a key piece of who we are.

Please submit resume and an informal email introducing yourself to:

jobs@onmylist.com