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What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.

Kurt Vonnegut

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How to Build an Awesome Online Community (and Why It's So Important)

When you start a blog, you will hear a lot about how to grow your audience. You will read about gaining readers and followers, and why SEO is important. All of those things are important for page views—but there is something I believe is far more rewarding and important for everything you do online: building your online community.

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It’s nobody’s fault but mine

Dick Costolo, CEO Twitter on Twitter's failure at controlling abuse on their platform. (source)

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Why I’ve found that online communities on media sites always seem doomed to fail

It is usually the staff who care most about that community that end up bearing the brunt of the abuse from it.

Very smart commentary from Martin Belam, explores forum/board communities and the people who love them.

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Ask Not For Whom The Bell Trolls; It Trolls for Thee.

This American Life podcast features trolling and Internet hatred as their topic this week. Great listening for Community-management minded folks.

Full episode --> http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/545/if-you-dont-have-anything-nice-to-say-say-it-in-all-caps

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In Honor of Community Manager Appreciation Day, 82 Amazing Community Pros

For those of you who don't know, today is international Community Manager Appreciation Day. That means we're celebrating the hard work of community builders around the world and the movements they'...

Love seeing a ton of my fave Community Manager peeps on this list and humbled by my own inclusion - Love you fellow Community Managers!

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Community Manager Salary Survey Results (2014)

Check out the latest data from our first community manager salary survey focused on the careers of community management.

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Einstein's advice to Marie Curie on dealing with trolls: "Don't read that hogwash"

"If the rabble continues to occupy itself with you, then simply don’t read that hogwash, but rather leave it to the reptile for whom it has been fabricated."