What are the top companies every community manager wishes they could work for? It can be from what you read online or what you've heard from others in the industry.

Anyone actually use the Networking feature here on fishbowl? Like yeah I see some of you with it on but do you actually use it besides thirsty dms?

Hi fishes,

Please help me to fill form 11 in Accenture bgv process.

How to know my previous company comes under exempted or un exempted. ( Which is Capgemini)

Also how to know whether I am a member of pf scheme 1952 or whether I am member of Eps scheme 1995.

Please help. @ Accenture

Merged my account this morning. Quite a sentimental moment to delete my SPG app. Bye bye you purple little guy

Best non-travel credit cards? I have Chase Marriott and SW but looking at best value cards during Covid. Esp Amexes. TIA!!!

Could any marriott employee share a friend and family form? I'll return the favor :)

I have observed that people on testing domain or frontend are getting better pay than other new tech domains like blockchain, cyber security, data sci etc(4-11yr exp) .
For less than 4 years experience new tech job gettig good pay but others getting very less.

In dev job Java, spring r etc getting better pay. Also some SAP consultant are also get paid high.
Is exp people in testing/frontend dev are less due to which they getting better pay than others with experience.
Based on fish posts*

Just want to say this is such a thoughtful bowl. Great responses, lots of questions on self improvement, sharing of resources. Love UX guys #empathy

Request to share link for c# selenium implementation for Grid Docker to perform parallel execution. Thanks

My ctc excluding employer pf is 12.58lpa. i invstd 96k in elss and 40k in lic. Along with this 48k epf and 2.4k as PFtax. HS rnt is 1.2LPA. I covered whole 80c but still 13k was deducted as tax this month. I am unmarried and don't want to take any medical insurance premiums. Any ideas how this 13k was came as Income tax?

I’m planning to buy the study materials for the SHRM-CP certificate through Amazon. What are the best ones to obtain?

Had an intro chat / interview with HH canceled bc of “scheduling conflict”. They said they’d reschedule asap. Haven’t heard from them for 3 days. Should I wait, follow-up or set up another call? Am I reading too much into it?

Any ideas for a 40th bday venue? Dinner with a good vibe and lounge after? Did MaD last year for him and they had a semi private but still very much in the mix for 15 people. I honestly can’t think of what to do but he’s bougieAF. Steak48 is an option. Looking for any other cool things you’ve hosted or attended lately?

I’ve been looking into continuing my education. I’m a certified veterinary assistant (worst mistake ever), and I’m thinking about starting my prevet courses, and becoming a CVT on the way so I have a guaranteed job. Anyone know if this is possible?

I made an offer to a candidate today. It feels really good to make that phone call and hear the other person being happy.

How do you work on getting better at concepting & ideation, are there any tips or resources that can help not just creatives but advertising creatives as a whole come up with good ideation & concepts?

any avid readers? genres you enjoy & its corresponding book?

Any idea when our revised compensation letter will be available ? It didnt come on 15th

What are some of your favorite social listening and analytics tools you’ve used as a CM? My team is looking into new tools and would love to get some recommendations

I’ve started a new job and though they have a community, it has been stagnant for a long time. Would you face the change directly with a “we’re back!” style post, or just increase the activity without acknowledging the absence?

I just left my job where I managed a community of 20-somethings and am about to start managing a community of people in their 40s. How different will it be?

Do you allow the community to discuss your direct competitors?

We’re looking to implement incentives to encourage community engagement. We’re going to test both material incentives (product) and good ol’ fashion recognition. Which one do you think will do better?

Are community manager conferences worth attending?

How do you make sure you are keeping the brand voice consistent?

Is there a need for freelance community managers?

It’s amazing the power that asking easy-to-answer questions can have on a community. It’s a great way to get nervous users more comfortable with engaging.

I have a bit of experience doing social media management with online businesses but I’d like to try out working with local businesses in my area. What are some good strategies for doing cold outreach, and what kind of services would you offer to entice them to work with you?

What resources would you suggest for learning about A/B testing in a community context?

What prompted you to do a complete community overhaul? Did it pay off?

I'm thinking of experimenting with some incentives to increase our community's engagement. What incentives have you used in the past that have been successful?

Am I the only one who gets offers from clients with crazy unrealistic expectations about how fast a page can grow? Like no, sorry, I can’t get you 100,000 new TikTok followers within a month.

What is the best way to get early adopters participating in the community before officially launching it? We want it to look like a lively place before new folks pop in.

Looking to create a survey to send out to our customers to get an idea of what kind of content they’d like to see from us. Any suggestions on high-value questions to ask?

Have you ever hired a freelancer to make some memes for your community? I was thinking of trying this to get some new members.

How should a future CM looking for their first job build their resume?

How long do you give an initiative before accepting it didn’t work out and it’s time to try something else?

Nobody asked, but here I share the best 5 tools that will ease your job as a community manager:

👉 Canva
👉 Hootsuite
👉 Google Drive
👉 CapCut
👉Qoob Stories

Would you add or change something?