DISQUS

Elizabeth Able · 2 years ago

What about nonprofits that are not marketing anything? For them, I like "Internet Presence Management."

"Presence Master" would be more fun - care for a super hero cape with that coffee?

Barry Welford · 2 years ago

Good thought, Elizabeth. I like the word Performance that could apply to all, I would think. So that would be either Internet Performance Manager or Web Performance Manager.

Adrian · 2 years ago

I've never heard of a big company using a term like webmaster, instead you'll find things like web architect, or new media manager, or some other managerial title like that.

Barry Welford · 2 years ago

It may not often be a job title, Adrian, although I have come across it quite a number of times. However I don't think you'll have a problem if you ask who is the webmaster for any given website. It's a well understood function. Just look how often you'll see an e-mail link to webmaster@companysite.com.

Kathy Hendershot-Hurd · 2 years ago

I began coding way back in 1994. Back then, we called ourselves "web masters" because we FELT like we were masters of the universe.

A few weeks ago, I was speaking to a group where I was asked if I called myself a "web master". I laughed and responded with this:

"I'm more of a web slave than master. See, I don't make the rules, I just follow them."

However, webslave@mycompany.com just doesn't have the same "ring".

Tom Busch · 2 years ago

Yeah, webslave about sums it up, lol.

If somebody asks, I usually just use the term web developer, correct or not, I don't know.

Dan · 1 year ago

I think its obsolete in other ways besides for its name. The web master died when all these auto generated sites became popular. A person could run a auto generator and have 100 sites created by the end of the day without having any skill what so ever. There are no such things as web masters anymore :(