Australia: Community Managers (Women)
*UPDATED – adding women community managers*Rod Peno from The Australian (IT) is asking for a list of the most influential Australian Women in Social Media. 50 of the Most Powerful and Influential Women in Social MediaRon Hudson – In every industry there are a few people who are inarguably outstanding at what they do. In…
*UPDATED – adding women community managers*
Rod Peno from The Australian (IT) is asking for a list of the most influential Australian Women in Social Media.
50 of the Most Powerful and Influential Women in Social Media
Ron Hudson – In every industry there are a few people who are inarguably outstanding at what they do. In addition to that, they are typically charismatic, energetic, and creative. In an effort to find some of these people I asked my twitter friends to nominate people who they thought were some of the most powerful and influential women in Social Media. It was no surprise that they quickly and enthusiastically responded with the list of ladies below.Read ‘50 of the Most Powerful and Influential Women in Social Media’ at Immediate Influence.
Rod – Local nominations anyone? Laurel Papworth springs to mind but there must be others?
Update – I’ll summarise any suggestions made here and send thru to Ron.
One of the questions raised on the American list is asking if blogging is enough. Or do you have to be working in Social Media, maybe running a community?
Nice earrings. Now, where did I nick this foto from? Here are the women in Australia who don’t necessarily blog but run communities, making them the most powerful women in digital media.
- Bronwen Clune, Norg Newspapers, social media proprietor
- Liz James, Pink Sofa, Lesbian dating community
- women editors, Vogue Australia Forums, fashion forums
- Peta Philbin, BigPond Island moderator, Second Life
- Jackie Maxted, BeautyHeaven, beauty items directory with community
- Kylie from Essential Baby (sold it to *cough* Fairfax)
- Suzi Dafnis, Australian Businesswomen’s Network online mentor community
- Larke Riemer, The Ruby Connection, Westpac’s women’s online community
- Deborah Robinson Australian Women Online forum for women
- Hmm Bec someone? Made It Australian independent designers social network
- Leigh L All For Women blog and forum
- Janine Gregson MySongCast forums and event community for unsigned musicians
Know of any others? Nah don’t tell me, tell Rod at The Australian (in comments).
Thank you for including me in the list Laurel. Although I have to say, most days I don’t feel like I have any influence in social media or anywhere else for that matter 🙂
But most of the credit really belongs to all the women who have supported Australian Women Online over the last year.
You give women a voice – women who may be at home with young children, or a carer of aged parents. Women who otherwise would have a limited scope to have their voice heard. Women who may not be comfortable with the commitment and fuss of having to blog daily so take their social nourishment from an online forum of peers
I, for one salute you. As dippy as that sounds, I mean it. 🙂
Hi Laurel,
gotta put a word in for Maxine – apart from the fact she’s in Bhutan right now, she’d never do it for herself.
No one is more instrumental in the success of Web Directions, and I’d like to think that plays a good role in this arena in Australia.
Women’s voice is more dominant over social networks. Our studies show that top influencers over MySpace are 55% women and 45% men.
A more staggering number is that 42% of the MySpace top influencers are older then 35 years old!!!
As for personal note, I also advice of hiring women as community managers.
women’s business network help women because it is a community helping each other out when needed!