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Doug HaslamMay 6th, 2010

Conversations with Community Managers Episode 6: Sonny Gill, DeVry University

Episode 6 of Conversations with Community Managers (co-produced with The Community Roundtable) features Sonny Gill, Community Manager for DeVry University.

Podcast highlights include:

Regulatory hurdles for social media participation in the education sector
The importance of integrating and harnessing the disparate internal communities at educational institutions
The importance of students as an ever-changing and tech-savvy resource to help drive community building
Extending connections beyond the current faculty and students to incoming freshmen and alumni- is that happening enough?
A discussion of “Community Chat,” which Sonny ran with Bryan Person on Twitter and FriendFeed (and how to keep momentum going in community- bring the chat back, guys!)

Voce Communications has partnered with The Community Roundtable to produce a new podcast series,Conversations with Community Managers. In this series, Voce’s Doug Haslam and The Community Roundtable’s Jim Storer speak with people from a variety of industries about their efforts with online community; what they are doing, the challenges and opportunities unique to their industry, and the differences and similarities between “community” and “social media.”

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Download the show here. Subscribe to the podcast here: MUSIC CREDIT: “Bleuacide” by graphiqsgroove

About the Author
Doug Haslam is a Supervisor on the Voce Connect Client Services team, managing client programs and developing strategy. In addition to Voce Nation, Doug writes his own personal blog and you can find him on Twitter as @dough.

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