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Interview with Community Life

May 1, 2023

Yurii Lazaruk and I had a great time talking about … well… me. Yurii’s belief is that it’s important to understand the people behind the work.

Home Game: The web comic for Community Managers

March 30, 2020

I’m proud to announce the launch of a new Web comic that Community5 CEO, Jake McKee and well-known comic artist, Greg Hyland have collaborated on:

Free Zoom Virtual Backgrounds For Download

March 19, 2020

As we all transition to more Work From Home (WFH) scenarios, we’re all learning how to improve our virtual meetings. One great technique to improve

The Community Signal podcast welcomes Jake McKee to talk about his experience building community with the adult LEGO fans. Listen here: http://www.communitysignal.com/lego-wasnt-always-open-to-your-ideas/

Confessions of a Super Fan

January 16, 2019

Community5 CEO Jake McKee takes the stage in Sweden to share insights about Super Fans.

2019 Community Predictions

January 15, 2019

Our friends at Vanilla Forums asked our CEO, Jake McKee to his observations of online communities in 2018 and the predictions for where the industry is going

Keep SXSWi Weird

Paraphrasing Bono: There’s been a lot of talk, maybe too much talk about this year’s SXSWi. This next song is Douchey South by Douchey. This

March 20, 2010

SXSW Survival Guide 2010

It’s that time of year again! This is a rehash of last year’s version, but that’s OK. It’s the same advice I’d give this year

March 10, 2010

GasPedal Interviews Jake

In advance of my upcoming speaking gig at the Super Genius conference, GasPedal interviewed me about what I’m going to be talking about. The interview

November 30, 2009

Visit us at the Social CRM Virtual Summit

Ant’s Eye View is sponsoring a pretty cool event next week. It’s all virtual and it should be all awesome. From the official AEV blog

November 6, 2009

AEV @ SXSW

The Ant’s Eye View team has four sessions in the SXSW 2010 Panel Picker this year. We need your help! Can you vote us up?

August 31, 2009

Come see me speak: Making money is easy, just ask your customers

If you’re in Dallas, or you don’t mind coming to town, I’ll be speaking to the DFW BMA on Monday, March 23. Are you coming?

March 12, 2009

SXSW Survival: 2009 Edition

In advance of SXSW last year, I put together some survival tips for the SXSW event and I wanted to dust them off and polish

March 2, 2009

SXSW Accelerator Finalists Announced

The SXSW Accelerator finalists have been announced, and I’m personally looking very forward to the event. There’s a great line-up of startups that you’re going

February 16, 2009

Twestival cometh!

In a matter of a couple of weeks, a grand experiment has been conceived and prepared. Are you going to pitch in? On Feb. 12,

February 9, 2009

Sky McCloud presents like a champ

If you’ve read Scott McCloud’s books on understanding the comic (visual) language, it will come as no surprise that his daughter is amazing too. Here’s

January 28, 2009

I’m speaking at the AMA

If you’re in the Dallas/Ft. Worth area next week, I’ll be speaking at the Ft. Worth chapter of the American Marketing Association. You can find

January 16, 2009

Does your startup need national coverage?

The SXSW team this year is launching a new event: The SXSWi Accelerator. The event is happening on Monday, March 16 at the Austin Hilton

January 14, 2009

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DINNER5

Dinner5 is a comfortable, casual virtual gathering I host once a month at no charge for senior-level community professionals across the country. I designed it as a free, small group, no-sales event where people can relax, relate and get real about the challenges and rewards of customer communities. It has since expanded into two career development options, Dinner5 Professional and Dinner5 Mentor, which are 3-month, cohort-based programs designed to advance community-building skills for beginners and longtime leaders alike.