Smart People Social Network Host

Position description:

Networking. Buzz. Contacts. Links. To achieve its purpose it will need to be ‘more than a magazine’, but rather, the flagship of a network of networks, an aggregator devoted to helping people achieve their highest performances in a world where knowledge matters.

The magazine’s purpose is to bring people with smarts in a knowledge economy together, to know, to learn, to share, to gain perspective, to discover themselves in this new environment, to get the most out of the knowledge phenomenon.

WIIFM: A volunteer Social Network Administrator agrees (and is licensed) to establish or take over an existing Smart People group (in Facebook, Linked-in, MySpace, etc.) as administrator and becomes the face of Smart People magazine in that domain.

There is a payback value exchange for the volunteer. By becoming the face of Smart People magazine in a social network, the volunteer gains a dynamic new channel for developing and expanding his or her own contacts and raising his or her profile.

COLLABORATION: The magazine alone is an awesome undertaking. To be more than a magazine requires the energy of lots more people than the founders can provide. But there are lots more people on the same pathway as Smart People and —together — we can succeed in our mutual goals. And so, we begin.

SCOPE: Smart People Groups are part of a larger network which originally includes Smart People magazine, the Smart People Forum, a Smart People Blog and a Professional Cluster (A network of for-profit and not-for-profit enterprises engaged in work relevant to the mission of Smart People. Through partnerships and collaboration Smart People will produce Smart People Webinars, Smart People Talk Radio and Podcasts. All will be interconnected, providing a flow of people among the Smart People domains as well as beyond, traveling to and through the volunteer’s Smart People Group, personal networks, domains and activities.

DUTIES: Duties of the SN Administrator

1. Be a member of or join a social network in need of a Smart People Group.
2. Develop or take possession of a Smart People Group in the network.
3. Build or grow the network. (Be careful not to appear to be a spammer.)
   
   • Invite your friends to join.
   • Invite your friends to invite their friends.
   • Encourage members to invite their friends.
   • Encourage new enrollees to invite their friends.
   • Explore friends’ lists and invite people you find with the right profile.
   
   
4. Welcome new members.
   
   • Give them urls to key internal and external links.
   • Ask them to invite their friends.
   
   
5. Keep the Group Forum going by:
   
   • starting new threads,
   • posting new messages,
   • responding to messages.
   
   
6. Refer posters (by url) to the Smart People Magazine Forum:
   
   • for feedback from Jerry Ash
   • for related dialogue in progress
   • for more conversation
   
   
7. When possible engage in personal conversation with people in their own networks and forums. Be sure to provide a link to your Smart People Group and the SP Homepage.

Duties of Smart People

1. Provide a welcome message template with links and a request for new members to invite their friends.
2. Provide the SN Administrator with templates for all routine correspondence:
   
   • Invitations to friends.
   • Requests for friends to invite friends.
   • Requests for members to invite friends.
   • Invitations to friends of friends.
   
   
3. Other support as needed.

Although promptness is a virtue in social networking, the SN Administrator may fit the Smart People Group responsibilities into his or her own schedule. If help is needed, the SN Administrator may add one or more Assistant Administrator (s) and assign duties as outlined by the SN Administrator.

Interested!?

Contact Jerry