[KellieCM]

It's my pleasure to introduce everyone to Kristina Saar {user:username=ksaar}. She will be the community coordinator for the PC World forums. We are working together this week as I train her up on the workings of the community, and she takes over for me next week, as my last day is this coming Friday 9/12/08.

Please welcome her, and be kind and helpful to her as she gets her bearings and gets to know all of you.

[techie4fun]

I'm ALWAYS kind to new folks . ;) Kristina, good luck.

[AuroraDizon]

Welcome

[ksaar]

Hi Everyone!
I'm so glad to be on board. Thank you for welcoming me! I look fwd to working with you all and continuing to make the Community an awesome place. Kellie has been training me -- thank you, Kellie! I've worked for PC World since 2000 and I love it here. I'm the research editor and now also the online community coordinator. Kellie will really be missed by our Staff. I look forward to talking with you all and seeing all the messages and contributions.

Thanks!

Kristina

[coastie65]

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1! coastie

[Adama]

Hi Kristina! First Kellie and now Kristina... K must be a lucky letter for PCW, eh? :^0

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1! Welcome to our lively and lovely Community. We love to help people, we learn from each other and we also like to have fun whenever we can.

I'm looking forward to interacting with you and getting to know you. If you need any help from me, whatsoever, feel free to PM me, anytime. I'd be glad to be of any help to you.

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1! "Hop on, Red Baron is ready for take off."

[mjd420nova]

In a phrase taken from the OLD SALTS dictionary. Welcome aboard. I look forward to seeing some interesting posts and hopefully a soft hand from time to time.

[KellieCM]

So now my hands are too rough for you? ;)

[SpiritWind]

:D Hi "K's" :



I have been wondering about the different "functions" between a Community "Manager"

and a Community "Coordinator" !?

[lilxkid24]

Welcome ksaar. Hope you enjoy your time being a community manager :^0

[ksaar]

Hi SpiritWind,

You asked about the different functions between the titles Community Manager and Community Coordinator. As CM, Kellie handled all PCW and Macworld Communites and I will just be dealing with PCW's Communtiy. I'm titled a coordiantor at this point. I'm also the research editor here in the reviews dept, so my job is a hybrid of sorts. Hope that helps! Talk to you again. :)

Kristina

[ksaar]

Hi Adama,

K must be the lucky letter, yes! I'm, looking fwd to interacting with you all, too!! Our Community here certainly is lively and lovely -- I'm up for all kinds of helping, learning and fun. Feel free to PM me anytime, too. Thanks!

Kristina

[snorg]

kellie said:

she takes over for me next week

Hi Kellie

In your "say goodbye thread" you said you were being laid off.
Being laid off means that the job no longer exists, or that there is not enough work for the job to continue.
Also being laid off means that should the job or similar job be become available again the person who was laid off is first in line to be hired to that position.
If a person was laid off there would be no one taking over for that person in the near future.
So either you were not laid off, or PC world is in violation of the Labor Code.

[mjd420nova]

No Kellie I didn't mean it that way. I knew this would happen but I just couldn't control myself. I could spend a lot of thought and work my fingers to nubs on the keyboard trying to explain myself BUT I guess I left myself open and now I must pay.

[Cosmo]

Hmm, a new overlord of the forums?

I hope the senior mods can give her a run for her money ;)

[Adama]

LOL Cosmo, we miss you!

I love that.... Overlord Kristina is poised to take over PCWorld!!! hehe





< breathe in . . . . breathe out . . . . Remember this, peons, from now on I RULE THE PCWORLD >

[rgreen4]

Well, I'm sure MPH probably can, after all the only logon with more posts than MPH is the PCW posting bot. Aurora can as she seems to know all the tricks. The two rookies (Coastie and I) will be learning right along with Kristina.

[KellieCM]

Hi snorg, thanks for your concern.

As Kristina said earlier, my position is in fact being eliminated. My job duties are being spread out among several people here at PC World. My position no longer exists and they are not hiring someone to do the same role that I am leaving.

My role was to be in charge of both the PC World & Macworld forums and everything that entails -- hands-on management (deleting spam, banning users, etc) and more strategic things such as selecting and working with our platform vendor, conceiving and executing strategy around our community offerings, etc. Kristina is taking over the management of the PC World community, but someone else is taking over Macworld and the strategic aspects are going to several other people.

I hope that clears things up for you.

[phillypa800]

hello kristina,
just when you think you have more work to do? guess what? not here. i've been a member since sept. 2006 and i can tell you that there are a small group of us that post quite regularly (except i've been slacking lately, been busy at work). i think you may have your work cut in half in respect to other folks posting and rules/regulations since we are more familiar with relevancy and so forth. example: post a topic where it should go, telling posters to note their pc specs for better answers, etc.
anyway, welcome aboard and i hope we get to know each in a more personal level if you know what i mean ---------->pffffffff...hahaha...just messing, gotta scare the newcomer...ahahaaahaaa!
ok stalk you later! :-)

[piyushsingh]

welcome to the forums. :)