I’m pleased to announce that on Wednesday, July 16, I’ll be stepping into an exciting new role as a social media evangelist with LiveWorld, Inc, a San Jose, California-based company that builds and manages online communities and social networks.

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The job offers me the opportunity to do what I’m passionate about: explore, write, and talk about how individuals and businesses are using social media to build community. And I’ll continue to blog here, Twitter there, and play a major role in the growth of the Social Media Breakfast as part of that exploration.

I’ll also be joining a team that has lived and breathed the word “community” since its founding in 1996.

In heading to LiveWorld, I leave Monster Worldwide, where I’ve worked for the past two years. I have to say goodbye to a caring group of co-workers later this week, but I take comfort in the fact that I’ve been part of a team that knows a thing or two about communicating — and staying in touch — online.

I’m moving, too …

… but not to California.

Instead, in late August, my family and I trek south and west to Austin, Texas, and I’ll work out of a home office. Why Austin? Pretty simple: We wanted to be free of the long, cold New England winters and to find a welcoming, affordable city to raise our two children. We think Austin offers us the setting to do just that.

I’m also headed to a city that is no stranger to social media, as it boasts the likes of fellow social media evangelists Connie Reece, RichardAtDell, and Thom Singer (to name a mere few). I’m ready to learn more from them, all the while sorting out just what it means to Keep Austin Weird.

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