
Seth Godin calls "Online Community Organizer" a "job of the future"
in his latest post.
It would help if that person understood technology, at least well enough to know what it could do. They would need to be able to write. But they also have to be able to seduce stragglers into joining the group in the first place, so they have to be able to understand a marketplace, do outbound selling and non-electronic communications. They have to be able to balance huge amounts of inbound correspondence without making people feel left out, and they have to be able to walk the fine line between rejecting trolls and alienating the good guys.
Since there's no rule book, it would help to be willing to try new things, to be self-starting and obsessed with measurement as well.
I've been contacted by both job seekers and those looking to fill the type of position Seth describes steadily for the past 4 months.
We even have some of those positions
posted here
The fact that main stream marketers like Seth are starting to talk about the value of online community and social media is nothing but good news for the industry (such as it is)