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March 28, 2005

Business data point

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Posted by Clay Shirky

Just got email from a headhunter looking for leads for a ‘VP of Social Computing,’ whose job will include building and managing a staff of 75-80 (!) people.

No word on what the company is (though it’s obviously large) and the work doubtless includes a number of more broadcast-oriented efforts as well (e.g. weblogs and RSS as publishing tools as well as conversational ones,) but it was interesting to a) see a VP level hire in this area and b) to see how large a staff is being imagined.

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1. Bill Seitz on March 29, 2005 5:48 PM writes...

What, you're not going to give us a number to call?

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2. John Eddy on March 29, 2005 8:06 PM writes...

or a possible location? :)

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3. Michael on March 31, 2005 10:09 PM writes...

If the position is inside a large company and it takes 70+ people to get blogs, wikis, and RSS working inside it, something is SERIOUSLY wrong with the equation.

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4. Zbigniew Lukasiak on April 6, 2005 10:56 AM writes...

If it is still open than I am interested too.

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