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October 1, 2008

Kelly Rusk Joins SmartHippo as our New Community Manager

Kelly RuskI’d like to officially welcome Kelly Rusk to the SmartHippo team. Kelly’s career has included positions in PR and email marketing, but her real passion is web 2.0 and social media, which is why as of today she is the new community manager for SmartHippo.

What does a community manager do? Chris Brogan has an excellent rundown in his post, Essential Skills of a Community Manager. In short, a community manager is part of the conversation and spends a lot of time listening (and a bit of time talking).

As we continue to build this great community which is SmartHippo, she’ll serve as an internal advocate for our users, as well as a point of contact for those with questions, comments or suggestions concerning SmartHippo in particular, or online finance in general.

You can connect with Kelly through her blog, on Twitter as krusk and SmartHippo, or LinkedIn. And you can pretty much expect to see her anywhere and everywhere there’s a conversation surrounding the problems, solutions and changes impacting people’s financial lives.

So whether you’re a banker, a broker, a consumer, or just plain curious about the world of finance and how you can make it work for you, please introduce yourself to Kelly, or post a comment below this post.

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Posted by George Favvas
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3 Responses to “Kelly Rusk Joins SmartHippo as our New Community Manager”:

  1. Web 2.What? » Blog Archive » Announcing… My new job! says:

    October 1st, 2008 at 4:26 pm

    [...] CEO George Favvas wrote a nice post welcoming me on board! author: kelly       category: random, social media community manager, [...]

  2. Darlene says:

    October 5th, 2008 at 7:53 am

    Congratulations Kelly! I can feel the excitement radiating from you :-) Smart Hippo is lucky to have you on board!

  3. Kim Houlahan says:

    October 8th, 2008 at 10:34 am

    Congratulations! Kelly is just awesome. I had the chance to work with her several years ago and she is really great. This career move is ideal for her! Looking forward to watching her manage the SmartHippo community! Congrats!

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