Community Manager Appreciation Day ~ Celebrate #CMAD in Style
Did you know that January 22, 2018 is the ninth annual Community Manager Appreciation Day (CMAD)? How are you celebrating the community manager in your life; that maybe you. Just a bit of background. CMAD was started in 2010 by Jeremiah Owyang , a California-based web strategist. It is “a way to recognize and celebrate the efforts of Community Managers aka Social Media Managers around the world using social media to improve customer experiences,” according to the CMAD Wikipedia page . If you have no idea what a CommunityManager no worries , the role is consistently being defined. In the last few years, the event has grown from just an idea into physical meetings worldwide. 2011 saw the first CMAD meetups, with ones held in Boston, Texas and New York. There are lots of ways to say thank you to your company’s community manager(s). Here are nine ways we came up with to celebrate CMAD. Send a tweet expressing how much you value your community manager. I like this one: “I ...