I'm Working for coComment [en]

A couple of months back, I told you the story about [my early involvement](http://climbtothestars.org/archives/2006/02/04/cocomment-enfin-public/) in the birth of [coComment](http://cocomment.com/). A few weeks, ago, Nicolas asked me if I would like to be part of the team, and [I happily accepted](http://www.cocomment.com/teamblog/?p=60).

My role, broadly, falls in the category of evangelism and communication (external and internal), and it’s in part what I was doing after the launch, before school and [computer](http://climbtothestars.org/archives/2006/03/18/peu-de-connection-internet-ces-prochains-jours/) [problems](http://steph.wordpress.com/2006/04/09/broken-ibook/) took over: read [what is said about coComment in the blogosphere](http://technorati.com/search/cocomment), comment and react when it’s needed or helpful, be active in the [forums](http://cocomment.com/forum/), bring back to the team feedback and ideas (found out there or somewhere deep in my mind) — in short, be a fussy but enthusiastic and vocal user.

Being part of the team now, I’ll be posting in the [coComment Team Blog](http://cocomment.com/teamblog/), which I have to say really needs to be more active. I will also be facilitating internal communication between the various team members.

My hope in taking up this job is to help make coComment into a tool which addresses users’ needs. I think it’s a great tool, and has a lot of potential. As I tell my clients, blogging and being an active player in the blogosphere takes up time. The dev team can’t spend all their time developing stuff *and* do the communication as well. That’s where I come in.

Working for coComment has a feel of adventure for me. First of all, I’m actually going to be paid to do what I like doing (be a pain in the neck and throw ideas all over the place). Second, this is the first time for me that work and blogosphere collide. My previous jobs have had nothing to do with the blogosphere, and I’ve never blogged much about my work.

I’m going to experience what it is to be caught between the desire to be transparent, and the fact that in business you cannot always say everything. I’ll probably have more to say about this in the coming weeks!

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  3. Tu en avais parlé lors du dernier Bloggy Friday.
    Je me rappelle aussi un de tes billets où tu indiquais les limites de la communication pour une blogeuse non rémunérée. J’espère que ce job te permettra d’allier encore mieux ta passion avec profession.
    Enfin, petit bad joke, je me réjouis de prendre connaissance d’un futur billet intitulé : “I’m working fot HEP Vaud” 😉
    Bonnes fêtes pascales.

  5. Congrats etc ! Qui dit professionelle dit “rémunéré”. Petites questions : c’est quoi le business-model ? Y a de la pub qui va arriver un jour ? CoComment va devenir payant après une préiode de gratuité ? Cash-burning en attedant d’être racheté par Yahoo ou Google ?

  6. Moi ma question serait plutôt : quid de l’école ? As-tu arrêté ou est-ce un job parrallèle ?
    Et, bien sûr, congrats ! 🙂

  9. Merci à  tous!

    Baud: pour le business model, je ne sais pas encore 🙂
    Xavier: c’est un temps partiel, je continue l’école jusqu’en juin, après quoi je serai étudiante à  la HEP à  temps partiel…

  10. C’est la bonne nouvelle—félicitations! Je suis utilisateur de coComment (j’ai le plus de commentaires!) et le logiciel m’enthousiasme aussi. Je suis ravis de savoir qu’il y a un fan du blogosphere chez coComment!

  11. salut Stephanie ! j espere que tu vas bien ! est ce que pour toi c est plus facile de parler de toi sur le net ou dans la vie reelle ? Bisous Laurent

  12. Congratulations Stephanie!
    Now that I know you’re part of the coComment adventure, I’ll definitely look forward to it with much more interest 🙂

    …but I’m having troubles coCommenting this post (it says I’ve to login but I’m definitely logged in cocomment, does it mean your blog? I don’t think so).

  13. Voilà … ça tombe bien! Je me relance dans les blogs… je veux retester cocomment… et voilà  que ce commentaire ne sera pas cocommenté! Pourquoi? Parce que j’ai maladroitement effacé mes mots de passe sous Firefox la semaine passée (il ne faut faire qu’un clic sans confirmation pour voir tous ses mots de passe à  jamais perdu, arghhh pour des sites futiles) J’ai beau clické sur mon icône coCo dans ma barre personnelle, il me vient un message “Please use the bookmarklet only on a page containing a comment form”. Alors là , soit c’est climbtothestars.org qui n’est plus compatible soit, un bug du côté du script de coCo. Alors voilà  que Stephanie pourra peut-être relayé mon petit prob du moment 😉

  14. Ça m’interesse—j’ai utilisé coComment avec Maxthon (il y a une ficelle pour coComment à  marcher dans ce logiciel) et il n’y a pas une problème avec le bookmarklet et ce blog. J’espère que cette nouvelle pourrait vous aider, Stéphane—Maxthon au ‹moteur› de Internet Explorer, mais les fonctions de Firefox. Et excusez mon ‹français étranger› …
       Bru, the log-in would be for coComment, and not Stephanie’s blog.

  16. I try to find a solution to not write my complains here. But I’m loosing time, so Stephanie, or an other coComment team member will understand and help me:

    I try to post something in the forum, I’ve tried many ways to do it. At the origin, I want to post in:
    http://www.cocomment.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=137

    but all my message was archived in my coComment part:
    http://www.cocomment.com/comments/St%C3%A9phane

    or directly visible on this ‘articles’ part:
    http://www.cocomment.com/article/32410

    Or it is not more possible to post in the coomment forum for unknown people?

  17. Stéphane a écrit:

    I try to find a solution to not write my complains here. But I’m loosing time, so Stephanie, or an other coComment team member will understand and help me:

    I try to post something in the forum, I’ve tried many ways to do it. At the origin, I want to post in:
    http://www.cocomment.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=137

    but all my message was archived in my coComment part:
    http://www.cocomment.com/comments/St%C3%A9phane

    or directly visible on this ‘articles’ part:
    http://www.cocomment.com/article/32410

    Or it is not more possible to post in the coomment forum for unknown people?

    This sounds like a problem with your coComment bookmarklet. I would say you may need to submit twice, once with the bookmarklet on, and once with it off, until they find a solution.

  18. Cool, bravo Steph tu as trouvé un bon job!
    Salutations à  Nicolas

  21. I guess I’m out of the news loop these days, I never noticed this post until now. Congratulations both to cocomment and to Steph, with all the Web2.0 thingies springing up these days, evangelization is a must :-).

  22. Congrats and I have to say you’re doing great work already, thanks for the comment on my blog re: concerns about CoComment

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