Ant’s Eye View is pleased as punch to announce a new client, Utterz.com. The team there is working on some amazing things, and we’re delighted to have been asked to help them build out their community engagement processes.

Stay tuned for more, or watch for Jake’s Utterz updates on CommunityGuy.com!

Last week Jake blogged about finding and hiring community management positions. There’s an insane amount of interest in hiring community minded folks, and thus there’s a huge amount of interest in breaking into the industry. Jake’s blog entries covered a number of these issues, and you can find them collected below.

Don’t forget to check out the Community Guy Jobs Board if you’re a community person searching for employment or you’re an employer looking to hire community folks!

How do I hire a Community Manager?
Looking to hire a community manager but not sure where to start or even what you’re looking for? This is a great place to start.

Hiring a Community Manager: Follow-up
Through the comments in the post above, several great questions were raised. The discussion continues.

ASK: How do I become a Community Manager? (Working Pro)
If you’re already in the workforce but are interested in changing positions within your current company or joining a new company.

ASK: How do I become a Community Manager? (College Student)
If your school doesn’t have a community management program (most don’t), here’s some tips for making your own opportunities.

Be sure to stop by CommunityGuy.com this week to win cool prizes and learn a little something about community engagement in the process. Community Contest 2007 runs all week and will be giving out prizes every day! See, learning can be fun (despite what high school English class taught you).

Interesting in learning more about community building? Ant’s Eye View is pleased to announce our Webinars Series.

Our first topic is “Pitching Community Concepts to Upper Management”. [Read more]

What topics are you interested in? We’d love to hear from you, so drop us a line!

More and more, our clients are asking us for help finding and training community minded people. Whether for positions that they’ve recently created or for departments they’re expanding, the need is clear. On top of that, it’s clear from the number of emails we get, that there’s no single place where aspiring or searching community professionals can quickly learn about open positions.

In order to help this process along, we’ve launched a Community Jobs Portal for both employers and seekers at: communityguy.com/jobs.

It’s 100% free for anyone to use, so hop on over and check it out!

If you’re in or around Orlando, mark your calendars for September 27-29, 2007. BlogOrlando is coming back for its second edition, and if the first event was any indication it should be a great time.

The event is free, and based on the unconference concept (a conference where the content of the sessions is driven and created by the participants, generally day-by-day during the course of the event), and is totally free. If you’ve never been to an unconference event, now’s your chance.

Ant’s Eye View’s own Jake McKee has agreed to lead a session on community, so be sure to tell him hi if you make it to Orlando!