Earlier this week I wrote about the Online Community Unconferece East that Forum One is running here in NYC on  February 10th, 2010; there is a discount code of marshall25

In fact, Community Management might be one of the most “in”, most “up in coming” jobs in Social Media – the position that going to be strategic in many companies and industries in the future – a future that is rapidly emerging.   Take  this post about Tweet Your Way to a Community Manager Position which tells you what you have to do to get into Social Media community management .

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The subject of Community Managers got more important today when Jeremiah Owyang posted about the List of Corporate Social Media Strategists, Corporate Community Managers in 2010 with the people on that list that he’s keeping are similar Social Media Community Managers though Jeremiah calls them Strategists.

From what I can tell by comparing the Online Community Unconference East attendee list with the Jeremiah Owyang list there are individuals from organizations on his list attending the Forum One conference on the 10th of February.

Here’s some of the organizations that are common to both lists.

1. Thomson Reuters
2. IBM
3. Microsoft

As Jeremiah Owyang points out, Altimeter Group is in the process of defining the skillsets needed to be a strategist, and by extension, a Community Manager – which often overlap:

The Altimeter Group is developing a free research report, on “Skillsets of Social Media Strategists” and will identify the attributes, backgrounds, experience of this emerging role,if you’re interested in receiving a copy, please register on this form.

But, even more importantly, if you want to find out what it takes to be a community manager/strategist, or meet people who are successfully doing it  – you should attend the Feb 10th Online Community Unconferece East and use the conference code marshall25 to get a discount.