I’m starting this post series (see archives) to recognize and congratulate folks who get promoted, move, or accept new exciting positions. Please help me congratulate the following folks:

Patricia Mayo has moved from being an editor at MasterNewMedia.org to a Social Media Strategist with NowSourcing, congrats! Her duties will include: handle their twittering, and do quite a bit of SMO blogging and SEO / PPC.

Vanina Delobelle (who I interviewed in a recent post) is the Product Director Social Media by Monster, she recently earned her PhD in Social Media.

Marina Martin is the the Community Evangelist for Elastic Lab, and is seeking out filmmakers of all levels to network for film projects.

Annie Heckenberger has moved on from being the Social Media Director for Greater Philadelphia Tourism Marketing Corp and joined ad agency Red Tettemer (, yep, that’s me on the homepage!) in mid-March. Her title is Community Trailblazer.

Laurie Buczek has recently moved into the role of Enterprise Social Media Program Manager at Intel. She moved from the external social media efforts into driving the strategy and implementation of social media internally.

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I’m seeking folks that are related to full time hands on social media strategy and community managers, to be on this list, so let me know if you see these folks, and please submit them. Also, I probably will not include executive management changes on this list at social media companies, as the list would go on and on, but you can feel free to express yourself in the comments!

I’m starting this post series (see archives) to recognize and congratulate folks who get promoted, move, or accept new exciting positions. Please help me congratulate the following folks:

Teresa Valdez Klein moves on to T-Mobile as a product planner, she’s very entrenched in social media, so we can expect her to add to the social media charge at T-Mobile.

Janice Diner heads up Ripple, the new social media division of Sharpe Blackmore Euro RSCG. In her previous role Janice headed up the Facebook communities and application development for TD Canada Trust and PlayStation Canada.

Tony Haenn takes a new role as Executive Community Architect at the Corporate Executive Board, which offers similar services to Forrester.

Petr Olmer moves to Good Data as the Community Evangelist.

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Jason Falls is hiring

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If you’re seeking candidates in the social media industry, many of them are within arms reach, feel free to leave a link to a job description (but not the whole job description, or I’ll delete it.

I’m starting this post series (see archives) to recognize and congratulate folks who get promoted, move, or accept new exciting positions. We should congratulate the following folks:

Tom Diederich joins Cadence as the Social Media/Web Community Manager. He’s working for Carlos Soares, my former colleague at HDS.

Brian Chappell joins Ignite Social Media as Sr. Social Search Strategist, and tells me he is seeking other talented individuals. Brian’s blog is here

Daniel Thornton moves from Journalist to Community Marketing Manager at motorcyclenews

Michael Brito accepted the position at Intel managing social media for the consumer segment, a great company doing lots of the social media front.

Adriana Gascoigne joins Ogilvy helping clients with their social media strategy as Vice President at the 360° Digital Influence Group at Ogilvy Public Relations Worldwide. (and they are hiring)

Aaron Uhrmacher was appointed to the role of Global Peer Media Lead, where he will provide strategic consultancy to clients and internal teams, at Text 100 Public Relations

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Jeremiah: Having been a community manager, I’ve real soft spot to those that are on the front lines, embracing customers using social media tools. Every so often, I hear of really excited folks that landed new jobs, and David thanked me for my blogging and tweeting, which helped him inch toward his goal.

The following is David’s submitted post:

My name is David Peck and Jeremiah was nice enough to ask me to guest blog about how I got my new job as an Online Community Manager for Myminilife.com. If you have not heard of it, Myminilife.com is a virtual world company located near me in Palo Alto, California.

A question that I keep getting is how I got a job in social media. The simple answer is social networking. Yep that’s it. Okay, okay some more details.

I first started listening to podcasts back in 2005. This helped me learn about other social networking sites like MySpace, Facebook, LinkedIn and such. It was not until I entered Second Life that things really began to change for me. In this virtual world I was able to meet and chat with the people I listened to on podcasts. I got to virtually hang with C.C. Chapman, Chris Pirillo, Jeff Pulver, and Adam Curry among many, many other new media mover and shakers. By doing this I was able to form relationships and get more involved in online projects.

One of the first projects I worked on was for crayon’s Steve Coulson and C.C. Chapman on Coca Cola’s VirtualThirst contest. My task was to help build an online community around the project. Yet, it was not until I discovered Twitter that things really kick in for me.

I went from networking and knowing 25-50 Social Media folk to knowing over 500. I discovered projects, people, places and events I had no idea about. I knew some people’s virtual Avatars but had no idea who they were in the real world. Twitter let me discover that and I got to know them much better. It really is a powerful tool. Everyone should be using it.

From this point I was able to locate freelance work that I had the skills to help on. If potential clients needed recommendations I would turn to my Twitter friends for recommendations from people like Ijustine, Eric Rice & Chris Brogan. In the past year I have worked on new media projects involving UC Berkeley, The Grammys, NPR, & PodShow. It was my being profiled on CNBC for my work in virtual worlds that allowed Myminilife.com to locate me. As their Online Community Manager I will lead incentives to increase membership, run the community blog, help generate quality content that stimulates quality activity and grow traffic on the site. The most important thing about this position though, I get to do something I love and get paid for it.

So yes the secret to getting a job in social media is to use the social networking tools out there to network yourself. Start with Twitter as its one of the best and easiest social networking tools. Where else can you talk to Robert Scoble, Jason Calacanis and Michael Arrington? Heck it was Twitter that let me find Jeremiah and allowed me to be a guest blogger on this site. Oh and don’t forget to add me on twitter!!

David Peck

If this blog has helped you with getting a new job (or getting promoted) in your career, I want to know, send me an email. Keep at it!

This series of posts tagged On The Move (see archives) is to recognize and congratulate folks who get promoted, move, or accept new exciting positions in the social media industry.

Congrats to those on the Move in the Social Media Industry:

Kris Smith is now at BlogTalkRaio as the VP of Product Development, you can read his announcement post

Eric Weaver is now the VP/Managing Director for Edelman Digital, heading up the digital and social marketing work in Seattle and Portland offices, and recently left Brand Dialogue, his own marketing consultancy. He announces from his blog

Joel Burslem, Social Media Manager at Inman News and founder of the Future of Real Estate Marketing blog was promoted to Director of Marketing, congrats

Peter Fasano joins the Reprise Media team leading the growing SF office as Group Account Director and contributing to the Social Media Marketing team. He also says that he is hiring account folks at all levels.

Sheryl Sandberg leaves Google to be COO of Facebook. I don’t think she has a blog, nor is on twitter, but she does have a Facebook profile (that lists she’s still at Google)

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If you’re seeking candidates in the social media industry, many of them are within arms reach, feel free to leave a link to a job description (but not the whole job description, or I’ll delete it.

This series of posts tagged On The Move (see archives) is to recognize and congratulate folks who get promoted, move, or accept new exciting positions in the social media industry.

Congrats to those on the Move in the Social Media Industry:

Peter Fasano joins the Reprise Media team leading the growing SF office as Group Account Director and contributing to the Social Media Marketing team. He also says that he is hiring account folks at all levels.

Elsie has moved from full time yoga instructor in Los Angeles to full time podcaster relations in Pittsburgh over at Wizzard Media, congrats!

Bradley Bradley Horowitz Leaves Yahoo as VP of Advanced Development Division to head to Google.

Todd Hoskins joins Networked Insights, a social media measurement brand monitoring company has hired him on to head up sales.

Nick Gonzales, one of the famed bloggers at Techcurnch joins widget/applications company Social Media, great move, congrats.

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Also see my community manager group in Facebook

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See Chris Heuer’s Social Media Jobs

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This series of posts tagged On The Move (see archives) is to recognize and congratulate folks who get promoted, move, or accept new exciting positions in the social media industry.

Congrats to those on the Move in the Social Media Industry:

Andrew Cafourek got a job, from reading this web strategy blog. (of course he did all the hard work, I just was happy to connect folks)

Shel Israel is launching his video show Global Neighborhoods at Fast Company TV, I look forward to being on his show soon.

Brian Wallace has now joined Google Tutor (I believe it’s independent of Google) to cover the social tools of Google.

Bob LeDrew has joined Thornley Fallis in Ottawa as of Monday , January 14. Congrats to Bob and Joseph Thornley

Alex Landefeld has moved to a customer support position with web development and e-marketing company Elliance, Inc. in Pittsburgh, PA. He also vlogs at logos.blip.tv

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Congrats to college graduate Andrew Cafourek for getting a job with Outrider. How’d he do it? by creating a professional looking site, being an excellent blogger, posting his resume, and learning how to use the tools to network with others –he demonstrated his web marketing prowess by doing it.

I’m always thrilled to see when the community connects, especially if it happens on my blog, and this is no exception. Andrew read my people on the move series, and connected with the folks at Outrider and received a job offer (read his post). He’s now packing his gear, moving to St Louis to start his new career, and life, straight out of college.

Jobs aren’t the only thing you should be thinking about, vendors should realize that where conversations are about their industry is there marketplace. In many cases I know the savvy buyers and savvy sellers are checking each other out in my comments, this is all encouraged as long as everyone is adding value to the conversation and not just taking.

Congrats to Andrew and the Outrider team for connecting!

I’m starting this series of posts tagged On The Move (click to see archives) to recognize and congratulate folks who get promoted, move, or accept new exciting positions. We should congratulate the following folks:

Robert Scoble (former colleague) leaves Podtech Network to join Fast Company to start up the video network. Robert is an innovator, fantastic blogger, and media personality in one. This is a good fit for him, he’s moving to a mainstream role, gets to focus on telling stories and sharing information (rather than going to a tool company). He’ll have a few challenges of course, I expect him to reinvent his videos, while still delivering his fun, goofy, personality that we all love. Congrats to Robert, a pioneer in the industry.

Rocky Barbanica (also former colleague at PodTech) will be joining Fast Company to lead the video production for the ScobleShow and whatever comes next. Rocky is a video editor and producer, and helped me publish many of my videos. Since they’re a team, we look forward to seeing how he’ll step up the production value of Robert’s work, congrats to him

Mike McGrath (who’s been leading the Silicon Valley Social Media Club) announces from his blog that he’s joining social media consulting shop The Conversation Group (see the partners)

John Lilly rises to a new position from COO to CEO at Mozilla Corporation. I met John at the recent brownbag I was invited to at Mozilla HQ, he was extremely engaged, knowledgeable and friendly. Best of luck to him

Matt Dickman of TechnoMarketer blog fame has now become Director, Digital Marketing at Fleishman-Hillard in Cleveland, Ohio. If you enjoy my blog, you’ll also enjoy his, so I recommend you subscribe. Many PR firms are hiring social media practitioners and strategists, expect this trend to continue

Chris Horne joins as senior product manager for MediaTrust’s relevance and social media technologies, press release here, submitted from the CEO of MediaTrust himself

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See Chris Heuer’s Social Media Jobs

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If you’re seeking candidates in the social media industry, many of them are within arms reach, feel free to leave a link to a job description (but not the whole job description, or I’ll delete it.

I’m starting this series of posts tagged On The Move (click to see archives) to recognize and congratulate folks who get promoted, move, or accept new exciting positions. We should congratulate the following folks:

Sheila Scarborough is joining Connie Reece and Mike Chapman at Reece and Company as a social media writer and consultant. Her other passions includes writing about travel and NHRA drag racing.(Twitter handle)

Steven Mandzik formerly of American Intelligence Community is now moving to a different group, one that will allow him to be a community leader, in an entrepreneurial shop at the CIA. He left a comment in my previous post.

Jeff Glasson joined PerkettPR .

Dan Schawbel is EMC’s first Social Media Specialist

Tris Hussey, a friend of mine joined B5 as a Training Manager, and is blogging on Maple Leaf 2.0, news here.

Mitchell Ashley is now blogging for Network World and will be starting another podcast (for Network World this time.) as well as maintaining his company Converging Networks LLC.

Will Pate, formerly of Flock is now at ConceptShare

Scott Parent at MediaTrust was appointed VP of MediaTrust’s Search and Social Media Optimization Division

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If you know folks that are moving up in the social media industry, leave a comment below, or if you’re feeling shy (it’s cool to self-nominate) send me an email.

Seeking Social Media Professionals?
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Also see my Web Strategy Jobs powered by Job o Matic

Also see my community manager group in Facebook

Check out Jake McKee’s community portal for jobs

See Chris Heuer’s Social Media Jobs

SimplyHired aggregates job listings, as does Indeed

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If you’re seeking candidates in the social media industry, many of them are within arms reach, feel free to leave a link to a job description (but not the whole job description, or I’ll delete it.

I’m starting this post series to recognize and congratulate folks who get promoted, move, or accept new exciting positions. We should congratulate the following folks:

Congrats to Sean O’Driscoll who’s moving on to new opportunities. He served customers as Microsoft’s MVP online advocate program, a 15 year veteran of MS, and based upon my interviews with him, a true community expert.

Recently, Connie Benson accepted a position at ACDSee as community manager. She’s a community maven, and helps manage the Community Manager Facebook group (link below)

Shashi Bellamkonda accepted the position of Social Media Strategist at Network Solutions. He often provides great insight in Twitter, follow him.

Eric Suesz joins Get Satisfaction as the Community Manager, Amy welcomes him in. (Also congrats to Amy and Thor for their new baby)

Submit an annoucement
If you know folks that are moving up in the social media industry, leave a comment below, or if you’re feeling shy (it’s cool to self-nominate) send me an email.

Seeking Social Media Professionals?
If you’re seeking to connect with community advocates and community managers there are few resources

Also see my Web Strategy Jobs powered by Job o Matic

Also see my community manager group in Facebook

Check out Jake McKee’s community portal for jobs

See Chris Heuer’s Social Media Jobs

SimplyHired aggregates job listings, as does Indeed

Hiring? Leave a commentt
If you’re seeking candidates in the social media industry, many of them are within arms reach, feel free to leave a link to a job description (but not the whole job description, or I’ll delete it.