If I were NAR’s Social Media Manager, I’d…
… listen to the needs of NAR executives and execute on their ideas.
It’s pretty clear from the job description, that that’s all they are looking for. Anything more sounds fun, but probably isn’t realistic for NAR at the moment… and there’s nothing wrong with this. It sounds like Hilary is swamped with work, so the right person could make a difference.
Most importantly, Rob is right that title’s matter, especially at an organization like NAR… and a “manager” position is meant to implement a strategy, not develop one.
I had a manager who worked for me at Move with a similar title and if I thought it would help, I’d happily recommend Todd for this position. However, if I was in Todd’s shoes, I’d only give it passing interest until they added some real decision making authority and bumped up the title considerably.
Carol McCart, 
Elaine Hanson and one other person are discussing. 
Chris Shouse 11:14 am on October 24, 2008 Permalink |
Todd would be perfect for the job but you are right I would want the job very defined and some teeth in it.
Teresa Boardman 11:14 am on October 24, 2008 Permalink |
The job isn’t needed. NAR is not social and they don’t have media
Teresa Boardman 11:16 am on October 24, 2008 Permalink |
OK maybe they have media
Dustin 11:21 am on October 24, 2008 Permalink |
Ahhh.. Teresa… When pushing for more social media at Move, I used to talk about how NAR put the FIRST social network online when they aggregated content from tens of thousands of agents and mixed them all up in what became realtor.com.
Problem was that they let it hit a dead-end instead of letting users community through the network they had created.
Dustin 11:25 am on October 24, 2008 Permalink |
Chris, I hate to say it, but I don’t think Todd would be the perfect candidate for the position… and seeing Jay’s note that they are not willing to relocate someone (after I hit publish on this post) is one more piece of the puzzle that the RE.net is putting way too much emphasis on this position. They don’t want and probably wouldn’t listen to someone like Todd, so he wouldn’t be the right person.