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For Community Gurus around the globe the fourth Monday in January marks a very special date. It’s Community Manager Appreciation Day! This is the day when we get to say “Thanks!”, “You Rock!” or simply “Woot!” to those who spend their days on the front lines of online communities.

As Jeremiah Owyang (Community Genius and Web Strategist Extraordinaire) points out, we love what we do and will keep fighting the good fight – but man there are days when it’s just not easy. Like the Energizer Bunny, we take some serious hits but keep on running. That’s why it’s important to stop and acknowledge those who advocate for the people, by the people and truly are, of the people.

Have you thanked your Community Guru today?

(Thanks to the Managers, Coordinators, Assistants and everyone else willing to take a hit in the name of Community. We appreciate all that you do.)

Answers.com’s Bob Rosenschein is in Munich attending DLD this week, and there is nothing like a Digital, Life, Design conference to get us inspired.

A few such inspired moments were captured on digital film and are shared below.

First, ‘Disruptive,’ a panel with guests all involved in disruptive technologies that changed their respective industries.

This panel was moderated by Yossi Vardi, the father of Israeli high-tech and an angel investor inAnswers.com. The speakers included Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia, Niklas Zennström, founder of Skype, and Mitchell Baker, founder of Mozilla.

Another noteworthy moment was when Mitchell Baker received the Aenne Burda award for outstanding female entrepreneur from last year’s winner, Esther Dyson.

Bob sat with Sharona Justman, who runs the annual Israel Conference in Los Angeles.

A quick chat between sessions… Hey, Bob, are you using Mobile Answers?

Nevermind Avatar. Forget James Cameron. Most of all, who needs a 300+ million dollar budget?

Not Aggie80 who attended Answers Summit 2009, nor Xanthotrichious, his partner in wiki (and daughter). The duo presents us with their short film portraying the battle of the WikiAnswers ninjas and pirates. Must see for yourself!

Atlanta, are you ready?

As you know, this weekend (Saturday and Sunday) Answers.com is holding the Answers Summit in Atlanta, GA. It’s a 2-day event in which Supervisors, Premier Answerers and other contributors will come together to discuss all things community and wiki.

Feel free to partake from wherever you happen to be by promoting/participating in the event:

Facebook: Mention Answers.com in your status update (type @Answers.com and choose it from the drop down) and write on Answers.com’s wall.

Twitter: Tweet about the conference and link to blog posts that mention it. The official hashtag will be #Answers09.

Blog: Get the RSS and leave comments to related posts as they come in.

YouTube: We will be posting videos of the keynotes and other tidbits. Subscribe to our channel to get updated/watch/leave comments.

Looking forward to a great event!

Tweet tweet!

I’m assuming you’ve been following @Answersdotcom on Twitter, so I just thought I’d fill y’all in on how the magic happens:

Answers.com’s answers on Twitter are powered by ObjectiveMarketer

Ta da! ObjectiveMarketer is a social media application designed to give great feedback about who likes what your tweeting… and lots more.

So I hope you like what @AnswersDotCom is tweeting these days… And if you don’t, speak up and suggest!

Good luck to all the teams participating in the first WikiAnswers Answerhunt, starting at 1pm Eastern time.

Looking forward to hearing how it goes!

Winning teams will be announced here, so stay tuned.

The WikiAnswers 9³ Experience is underway. Video Answers are being submitted for the Video Contest, teams are being formed for the Answerhunt and lots of Town Hall questions have been received.

Just to recap:

• Join an Answerhunt team and compete in the scavenger hunt that’s taking place this Saturday, September 5th. Register your team by tomorrow in order to compete for prizes.
• Ask your Town Hall questions by the end of Saturday for them to be considered for the sessions to be shown on Wednesday, September 9th.
• Submit your Video Answers now through September 9th to be considered for one of the prizes. You can submit up to 9 videos!

For more information… you know what to do.