#StandApart: Crystal Henrickson, Head of Community Management, Invoke Labs

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Building A Career in a Career That Doesn’t Exist

Transcript of #StandApart: Crystal Henrickson, Head of Community Management, Invoke Labs

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Building A Career in a Career That Doesn’t Exist

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My Crash Course In Community Management

a receptacle for feedback: the good, the

bad, the plain weird

therapist, cheerleader, friendmaker

the role model and leader

“Cheerleader” Marie Coons“Speech” Athena Manolopoulos“Rating” Dirk Schmucker

100% do-er

“Bricks” Dan Hetteix

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Career and Community Building Blunders

we didn’t measure everything

“Dropout” Musavvir Ahmed

switching between do-er and

people manager ain’t simple

burning out serves no one

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A case for the professional development of Community Managers

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If I could do it all over again

“Rewind” Lubos Volkov

Recognized the builders from the

maintainers sooner. In me and others.

Favoured focus on fewer projects, and

spent more time thinking thoughtfully

Invest more time learning cross-functionally

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