Amber Naslund is Radian6’s new Director of Community
Saturday, January 10, 2009 | 11 Comments
Posted in: Social Media Monitoring, Social Media News
(photo: Amber Naslund, @ambercadabra – photo by David Alston)
To say we are excited about Amber joining us would be an understatement. Please read on.
It was just before Christmas when we decided to post two new roles at Radian6, with one focused on community outreach. The interest in the role was tremendous (thanks to all who reached out to us). With just a couple of tweets from us the news spread fast and by the next morning we have over 600 visits to our job posting page and numerous resumes from some amazing candidates.
Radian6 owes a lot of it’s success to it’s wonderful community. From numerous blog posts to fastastic shows of support on Twitter the community has carried us to places we never would have imagined. And for that we are humbled and truly grateful. We’ve always maintained that we should be very accessible to our community (while we are no Zappos yet we have at least 28 active Twitter accounts – which I will include at the bottom of this post if you’d like to connect with any or all of us.) And not want to stopping there we aim to bring more to the community.
As some of you know Amber has been a valuable part of our PR, marketing and community efforts over the past 6 months. I first met Amber via a Plurkshop we held where I got to talk about social media monitoring and Amber volunteered to miraculously boil down the one hour and 600+ plurks into a great summary post. I knew then that I’d love to find a way to join forces and work on a number of our projects together. And we did, being one of the lucky ones to get some of her precious time as a client of her successful consulting firm.
Amber is well respected for her knowledge of the social media space, a wonderful friend and supporter of the community and a blast to work with. We are totally thrilled and humbled that she decided to join the Radian6 team.
So please join us as we sing out at the top of our lungs – “Welcome to Radian6, Amber”
UPDATE: You can read Amber’s post on her new role here.
Amber joins our team of Twitteraholics (well some of us more than others perhaps 
Radian6 Twitter accounts
http://twitter.com/radian6
http://twitter.com/ambercadabra
http://twitter.com/davidalston
http://twitter.com/lebrun
http://twitter.com/cdnewt
http://twitter.com/tweetrich
http://twitter.com/jcarr
http://twitter.com/marcwhitchurch
http://twitter.com/CraigComeau
http://twitter.com/nbreau
http://twitter.com/briandunphy
http://twitter.com/andreatarrant
http://twitter.com/coryhartlen
http://twitter.com/barrypope
http://twitter.com/huggard
http://twitter.com/mbrewer13
http://twitter.com/TomHasselman
http://twitter.com/andymccann6
http://twitter.com/reubenator
http://twitter.com/nigelorfei
http://twitter.com/genevason
http://twitter.com/leesaarobertson
http://twitter.com/r6greg
http://twitter.com/chrisramsey
http://twitter.com/Twebinars (used during events)
6Consulting (Radian6 agent in the UK)
http://twitter.com/6consulting
http://twitter.com/JulieBurgess
11 Responses to “Amber Naslund is Radian6’s new Director of Community”
David Alston on January 10th, 2009 at 1:28 am
I know Connie. I suppose I owe it to myself to probably post this great news on Plurk now shouldn’t I
Ari Herzog on January 10th, 2009 at 2:26 am
From everything I know about Amber and everything I know about Radian6, this sounds like a match made in heaven!
Which…is one way you can view the information superhighway.
Congrats!
Connie Reece on January 10th, 2009 at 2:27 am
I miss Plurk — has just been too hectic to spend time there lately. But maybe we could do another Plurkshop some time. I miss them.
Connie Bensen on January 10th, 2009 at 2:29 am
David & Marcel,
I was glad to see that you decided to add a community role. Every organization should have someone to coordinate the communications in both directions & be a strong voice.
Congrats Amber! Welcome to the wonderful world of community & SM monitoring! I look forward to crossing paths with you!
David Alston on January 10th, 2009 at 3:29 am
Thanks Ari. Definitely agree.
Connie Reece: Yeah, I’m ashamed to say that it’s been months since I plurked. Perhaps we should try to do another plurkshop sometime.
Connie Bensen: Thanks for the kind words Connie. I’ve been acting as our part-time community manager now for quite awhile and the great discussion necessitated moving to a full-time position. Amber will be great at it. I agree it’s important for every company to have such a role. All the best.
David Mullen on January 10th, 2009 at 12:07 am
David – congrats on hiring an incredibly gifted marketer to the team. I’ve been thoroughly impressed with Amber as I’ve gotten to know her over the past six months.
Amber – congrats to you on joining an awesome team. Our Mullen folks very much enjoy working with Radian 6.
I’m very happy for both of you.
David Alston on January 10th, 2009 at 12:10 am
Thanks David. I totally agree and btw the feeling is mutual.
Mack Collier on January 12th, 2009 at 2:52 pm
David you and LeBrun chose the best possible person for this position. I am beyond excited for Amber, and know she will join your amazing team to help push Radian 6 to the next level. So good to see a company making such a bold and SMART move in times like these when so many others are wringing their hands.
David Alston on January 12th, 2009 at 3:16 pm
Thanks so much Mack. We are very happy to have her on the team.
Connie Reece on January 10th, 2009 at 1:13 am
This is a great match-up of a talented individual with a savvy social media company. Congratulations, Amber! (And to think I was there for the Plurkshop that got it all started. Wow.)