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Social Media Managers

I just wrote a new post abut social media managers.
http://interactivemedias.blogspot.com/2008/04/social-media-managers...

What do you think? Do you agree, or do you agree with Steve's post that the "Social Media Manager will go extinct." {http://www.micropersuasion.com/2008/03/three-internet.html}? Where is this market headed?

Permalink Reply by Marilyn Marketing & Media on August 8, 2008 at 10:40pm: While I think the actual job description may phase out in a few years, there will always be opportunities and jobs in media & marketing for "Communications Specialists". But I see that role evolving into a more technical role (again) as opposed to being purely marketing-driven.

In essence, I see a lot of marketing and development jobs merging together in the future; I believe Internet Marketing specialists will need to acquire more technical skill - they will need to learn programming, web development, and backend applications.

This "trend", in the future, will be driven by the economy - as more and more companies will want to consolidate their employee roles & responsibilities. So not only will copywriters need to know code, but programmers will need to know how to write. That's the way I see it (coming from a Project Management standpoint).; ▶ Reply to This