boards is recruiting again??

cornbb

Well congratulations for being in a position to do so, its nice to see a company expanding during the recession. A pretty significant expansion too! I hope CuLT won't mind sharing his coke and hookers

I couldn't help but smile at the idea of a "Community Manager" will that be a judge, jury, executioner, peacemaker, lawmaker or combination thereof?

seamus

Wow, fair play guys. That's some expansion.

Cabaal

Extra cash from daft.ie I guess helps them expand
Cult is still employee #1 in my eyes :pac:

Tom Dunne

I wonder if they need a tea-boy?

*polishes up CV*

6th

cornbb wrote: »

I couldn't help but smile at the idea of a "Community Manager" will that be a judge, jury, executioner, peacemaker, lawmaker or combination thereof?

Hhmmmmm, I've been looking for a change of pace :pac:

Vexorg

We are pretty excited about this, the tech additions are to beef up the infrastructure and development side, we want people who will work out as well as CuLT has and by allowing them to focus on specific tasks and reduce the jumping from development work to sys admin boards.ie members should experience more improvements.

The Community Manager position is also a very important position to us, we want a more consistent response to both the members and the moderators. We recognize that we need someone dedicated to supporting the community in a more reliable/dependable way than we have been able to in the recent past and so the search is on..

Zaph

So is the Community Manager going to be effectively taking over the more hands-on role of the Admins on the site then, rather than stuff that gets passed up the chain having to wait until one of you guys happens to be online? Won't be applying myself, just curious as to what's envisaged for the job.

copacetic

Vexorg wrote: »

We are pretty excited about this, the tech additions are to beef up the infrastructure and development side, we want people who will work out as well as CuLT has and by allowing them to focus on specific tasks and reduce the jumping from development work to sys admin boards.ie members should experience more improvements.

The Community Manager position is also a very important position to us, we want a more consistent response to both the members and the moderators. We recognize that we need someone dedicated to supporting the community in a more reliable/dependable way than we have been able to in the recent past and so the search is on..

good news and great plans. might even polish up the CV for tech director. hmmm.

Community Manager seems the key role to me though, hopefully a pretty much full proxy for the admins with all their powers but available more?

Anti

So when's cults leaving doo ?

Hobbes

Vexorg wrote: »

We are pretty excited about this, the tech additions are to beef up the infrastructure and development side, we want people who will work out as well as CuLT has and by allowing them to focus on specific tasks and reduce the jumping from development work to sys admin boards.ie members should experience more improvements.

Would it not be cheaper to hire scientists to clone CuLT?

Congrats btw.

Ponster

Online Community Manager - I'd give my right nut for that job !

mike65

All this during an advertising revenue downturn as well.

oeb

To apply or not to apply?

BTW, we will miss you CuLT

Sherifu

What recession. G'luck cult .o/

RoundyMooney

Good news on the face of it, to have someone employed in a pro capacity to deal with the, I suppose, grey areas of boards.ie that cannot be solved by someone pushing buttons, nor should an attempt be made to do so.

A welcome development indeed, but I wonder how one shows the qualifications to be a "community manager". You admins are breaking new ground here, and are to be commended for that. I too am curious though, as to what role this person will fulfil, and what powers they will have over everybody else. As long as the site or mini memes thereof remain about the work they do, rather than about them, we'll be sorted.

RoundyMooney

NVM, I read the announcement

BuffyBot

RoundyMooney wrote: »

A welcome development indeed, but I wonder how one shows the qualifications to be a "community manager". You admins are breaking new ground here, and are to be commended for that. I too am curious though, as to what role this person will fulfil, and what powers they will have over everybody else. As long as the site or mini memes thereof remain about the work they do, rather than about them, we'll be sorted.

Community Managers aren't exactly new ground. They've been around on the net for a long time - there's even an association of them online

mike65

Why the notion of being Dublin based if you're a Community Ass Kicker?

RoundyMooney

BuffyBot wrote: »

Community Managers aren't exactly new ground. They've been around on the net for a long time - there's even an association of them online

Most intriguing. I have some reading to do, as this is something I find quite interesting.

RoundyMooney

mike65 wrote: »

Why the notion of being Dublin based if you're a Community Ass Kicker?

'Cos that's where the clique is based, silly!

Nah seriously, I assume the lads would prefer to have a face to face rather than conducting business over the net.

Vexorg

CuLT is going nowhere, I will staple him to his seat if I have to.

Nerin

Vexorg wrote: »

CuLT is going nowhere, I will staple him to his seat if I have to.

10mm or 10.5 mm? I'd suggest clout nails tbh,or even better,ridge tile nails.

What does this mean for boards,like more features and stuff? A new overlord?

Vexorg

RoundyMooney wrote: »

'Cos that's where the clique is based, silly!

Nah seriously, I assume the lads would prefer to have a face to face rather than conducting business over the net.

Now theres the RM I miss, thats pretty much the reason, it may be that as the job matures it could can be done remotely, I would be much happier to be able to discuss ideas over a coffee and face to face than over the phone.

Adam

Nerin wrote: »

10mm or 10.5 mm? I'd suggest clout nails tbh,or even better,ridge tile nails.

What does this mean for boards,like more features and stuff? A new overlord?

it means i make you my bitch!

/takes all three jobs

Dades

So many questions...

What colour stars will the Community Manager have? :pac:

Nerin

Mirror wrote: »

it means i make you my bitch!

/takes all three jobs

You wish :P

Silverfish

Ponster wrote: »

Online Community Manager - I'd give my right nut for that job !

Yeah, I'll gve Ponster's right nut for that job!

Vexorg

Nerin wrote: »

10mm or 10.5 mm? I'd suggest clout nails tbh,or even better,ridge tile nails.

What does this mean for boards,like more features and stuff? A new overlord?

Clout nails you say - I like the sound of that.

What does it mean for boards, well the tech appointments means we have a clear development role, a clear sys admin role and someone to guide and mentor the tech side of the business for us.

This should mean we get to plan & deliver what features and new things you and we (boards.ie admins) want with fewer distarctions.

Development to date has always suffered distraction from infrastructure issues many of them have been solved and the site responses times are quicker despite the numbers of simultaneous users increasing dramatically - trying to identify the cause of various problems and trying to "develop" at the same time and all this done by one full time person just cannot work on a site as large as boards.ie.

And there is no new overload.

copacetic

Silverfish wrote: »

Yeah, I'll gve Ponster's right nut for that job!

I bid his left one. Sale or return.

Nerin

Vexorg wrote: »

Clout nails you say - I like the sound of that.

What does it mean for boards, well the tech appointments means we have a clear development role, a clear sys admin role and someone to guide and mentor the tech side of the business for us.

This should mean we get to plan & deliver what features and new things you and we (boards.ie admins) want with fewer distarctions.

Development to date has always suffered distraction from infrastructure issues many of them solved and the site responses times are quicker despite the numbers of simultaneous users increasing dramatically - trying to identify the cause of various problems and trying to "develop" at the same time and all this done by one full time person just cannot work on a site as large as boards.ie.

And there is no new overload.

The problem is that clouts only go up as far as 50mm.

Sounds good. The whole fixing existing stuff while making new treats for us would require cult to grow more hands....
Although...

Ponster

Silverfish wrote: »

Yeah, I'll gve Ponster's right nut for that job!

Ahhh...stop getting me excited !

Sully

I think the only way forward is cloning tbh.

Terry

Tom Dunne wrote: »

I wonder if they need a tea-boy?

*polishes up CV*

Whoa there, buddy.
I have experience as a tea boy.
I did it for 100 people on a site.
Six breaks a day, 12 hours a day and seven days a week.
Yes, your first site job usually sucks.
Tea boy is mine.

Ponster wrote: »

Online Community Manager - I'd give my right nut for that job !

Please send your right nut to somebody@theinternet.com

Nerin wrote: »

The problem is that clouts only go up as far as 50mm.

Sounds good. The whole fixing existing stuff while making new treats for us would require cult to grow more hands....
Although...

What you need is some self sealing stem bolts.

Nerin

Terry wrote: »

Whoa there, buddy.
I have experience as a tea boy.
I did it for 100 people on a site.
Six breaks a day, 12 hours a day and seven days a week.
Yes, your first site job usually sucks.
Tea boy is mine.



Please send your right nut to somebody@theinternet.com




What you need is some self sealing stem bolts.

Man if we're going down that route,should we not use 10x120 throughbolts or rawlbolts?

The_Minister

Community manager looks like an amazing job. It would be nice to have coherent standards site-wide, and maybe even a loose system of precedence.

Dyr

How come nobody has, for one, welcomed our new unix/community manager overlords? This used to be a civil place, sure we get a bit of money and we dont know ourselves

shockin.

Terry

Nog and Jake say no.

Sully

Bambi wrote: »

How come nobody has, for one, welcomed our new unix/community manager overlords? This used to be a civil place, sure we get a bit of money and we dont know ourselves

shockin.

I for one will welcome our new overlords when they come.

Note: Id prefer the Community Manager was a Boardsie. In fact, I think he/she should be.

Steve

Congratulations to all the admins, this is a big step and I wish you the best of luck with it

One question though, are the subs going up to pay for it?