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Introducing Gabe, The Smiling Community Manager 24 Aug 2013 | 01:59 am
A couple of months ago, we started soliciting applications for a Community Manager candidate fluent in Portuguese and English. Why? Well, as Jay wrote: …We’ve long had a backlog of proposals in Area ...
Finding a Great Company 13 Aug 2013 | 12:45 am
We launched Stack Overflow Careers with the goal of fixing how companies hire developers. Traditional resumes only tell half the story, so we created Careers 2.0 Profiles to fill in the gaps. A few mo...
Please welcome Jon Ericson, Community Manager 9 Aug 2013 | 10:41 pm
With over 100 sites on various and sundry topics, Stack Exchange has become something of a juggernaught: keeping this many different communities healthy and well-supported can be a bit overwhelming at...
Podcast #51 – The Return of Coding Horror 5 Aug 2013 | 07:01 pm
Welcome to Stack Exchange Podcast #51, with special guest Jeff Atwood and the usual suspects Joel Spolsky, David Fullerton, and Jay Hanlon. Today’s show was brought to you by Pan-American World Airway...
Podcast #50 – Listen To This Podcast 25 Jul 2013 | 01:05 pm
Welcome to Stack Exchange podcast #50, featuring usual suspects Joel Spolsky, Jay Hanlon, and David Fullerton, plus special guest Shog9 aka Nine Shogs Shogging. And remember, today’s podcast is spons...
Say Hi to Nine of Our Newest Newbies 1 Jul 2013 | 10:40 pm
The year is half over, and we’re still hiring like crazy. This year we’ve added 22 associates, which means our employee count has increased by 23.4% in the past six months. Yay math! Raise a glass to...
The War of the Closes 25 Jun 2013 | 09:45 pm
It pains me when I hear people say that our sites are unfriendly, or that we chase new users away. But it’s a hard problem, because our highest priority has always been the quality of content on our s...
Podcast #49 – The One Where We Edited Out The Title Reference 11 Jun 2013 | 04:51 pm
Welcome to episode 49 of the Stack Exchange Podcast! We are welcoming special guest Matt Grum, as well as usual suspects Joel, David, and Jay. Matt is the top rep user on Photography. He’s got 957 an...
Podcast #48 – Sponsored by Powdermilk Biscuits 3 Jun 2013 | 07:58 pm
Welcome to Stack Exchange Podcast #48! Our guest today is Jorge Castro, member of the Community Team at Canonical (of Ubuntu fame). We also have Robert Cartaino, our very own Director of Community Dev...
Welcome Tim Post, our latest Community Manager 31 May 2013 | 08:41 pm
Community management at Stack Exchange is an… Interesting job. Parts sociologist, cat-wrangler, therapist, software analyst and cheerleader, this small band of dedicated people work daily to make sure...
