My 2009 Challenge
December 28, 2008 – 10:18 pm
so……..it works the same way for every single market and it works the same for the Internet. You are searching for an empty space that can be filled with your product. And it works, it really does. Problem is though, sometimes you are filling more than you think. And that’s what happened in case of GoldenLine.pl, place where I work.
GoldenLine.pl was supposed to be this great place with no annonimity for people focused on self developement, business networking, career oportunities etc. Something close to LinkedIn but with actuall life attached. And that was great, well it still is. The thing is in the time GoldenLine started to live and grow there was another empty space in Polish Internet.
We had this Grono.net site. Not sure how to make it clear why I don’t really like this place… let’s just say it’s filled with “y0 m4n iz g0t the intern3tz, yo man wanna chat?” etc. No place for mature person – well, if you’re into bdsm or a troll yourself maybe it’s a place for you. So pretty much it’s like a MySpace but worse.
Because of that there was actualy no place where people could talk about everything (hobbies, passions, interests or even flirt) without kids running around or anonymous nicks with avatars… and they found GoldenLine… as every one works they quickly filled up their profiles with names, surnames and even job positions and….started to flirt with one and another ;)
and that’s cool with me, I know people have something called “private life” and they like to talk about it :)
problem is that first group which was/is basicly our MAIN target is not too happy with that second group – which turned out to be our target too…
my task is to manage their relation… sounds fascinating right? yes, it’s fascinating :) And that’s my task for 2009. What’s yours?
Witam, nazywam się Arvind Juneja i jestem Community Managerem. . 
4 Responses to “My 2009 Challenge”
At the beginning I just want to tell you that I’m happy about you writing your blog in English… one of my goals is to keep my English level going up every possible moment, another one is to keep reading your blog, so it’s like 2 in 1 :-)
My task for 2009 is to create my own company, what kind of company, I can’t tell yet.
You will see soon, I hope!
By Daniel Fukuda on Dec 29, 2008
Thanks for that warning. I didn’t know that it is such a problem. After reading your text I got message from a person I don’t know, asking me for some strange advice. Before answering I checked log of his statements. 100% is kind of flirt and 80% on group flirt. It’s clear for me then. I do not need to answer if I do not need to flirt.
By Agnieszka on Dec 29, 2008
it wasn’t really a warning, just a short brief of one of my main challenges as a community manager :)
there is a lot more going on :)
By Arvind Juneja on Dec 30, 2008
Very good blog. Nice explaination. Thanks.
By Quality Management on Sep 12, 2010