Comments on: Community Building is Happening Worldwide http://conniebensen.com/2008/06/13/community-building-is-happening-worldwide/ Community Strategist Mon, 02 Jan 2012 05:30:36 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Emily Williams http://conniebensen.com/2008/06/13/community-building-is-happening-worldwide/comment-page-1/#comment-1242 Emily Williams Mon, 16 Jun 2008 23:33:00 +0000 http://conniebensen.com/blog/2008/06/13/community-building-is-happening-worldwide/#comment-1242 I'm from the US, living in Chile, and working for Needish (www.needish.com), which is a US company, founded by a Chilean and two Swedes, based in Chile and about to launch in the US. If that isn't international I don't know what is! I don't have any real sense of how many community managers there are in Chile, but considering that many companies still don't have much of an internet presence, I doubt there are many others in this line of work. That will likely change within the next 5 or so years though, as more and more people in their 20s enter the workforce. Right now I'm mostly Twittering in English (@emilyinchile) due to the impending US launch, but it's also proving a useful way to stay in touch with our Chilean users via the occasional Spanish Tweet. For me it's been a good way to ease-in to using Twitter as a listening tool. Anyone else out there working outside the US? I’m from the US, living in Chile, and working for Needish (www.needish.com), which is a US company, founded by a Chilean and two Swedes, based in Chile and about to launch in the US. If that isn’t international I don’t know what is! I don’t have any real sense of how many community managers there are in Chile, but considering that many companies still don’t have much of an internet presence, I doubt there are many others in this line of work. That will likely change within the next 5 or so years though, as more and more people in their 20s enter the workforce.

Right now I’m mostly Twittering in English (@emilyinchile) due to the impending US launch, but it’s also proving a useful way to stay in touch with our Chilean users via the occasional Spanish Tweet. For me it’s been a good way to ease-in to using Twitter as a listening tool. Anyone else out there working outside the US?

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