Lessons learned from...

Distinction between a Community Manager, Product Manager and a Community Product Manager Feedback First of all, thanks to all of those who shared their thoughts with me on my last post – Trial offer to test the Social Content 2.0 Circle of Life. In general, there were two common...

Trial offer to test ...

More on infusing community and product management for social software development. Read on and email me at steven@stevenmilstein.com if you want to participate in my free trial offer. Background I recently posted How to infuse Social Content 2.0 into your social software lifecycle where I...

How to infuse Social...

This is about me taking a traditional role in software development and creating its counterpart on the customer side to improve communications between all stakeholders. This is where Product Manager meets Community Product Manager. Social Content 2.0: Content derived from the spontaneous,...

It was a good Dip – but a Dip nonetheless

I started off writing my farewell email to my IBM social network but then thought it would make a better post and help drive traffic at the same time I’m fascinated by social software and the content that runs through it. This is where I want to immerse the next chapter of my career. To all the IBMers I socialized with … On the very first page of Seth Godin‘s “The Dip”, he writes: Most of the time, we deal with obstacles by persevering. Sometimes we get get discouraged and turn to inspirational writing, like stuff from Vince Lombardi: “Quitters never win and winners never quit.” Bad advice. ...

Getting my affairs i...

Social Values 2.0 Its more about the folks in your social network than the technology that enables your social network. Its the value they can spontaneously and casually generate with a simple click of a button. The rumors were true. There are layoffs & I’m among them. I have...