Nimble, the social relationship management company, has announced it is offering community managers worldwide free subscription to its Social CRM Business Edition.

The offer, available to ‘qualifying’ community managers for a year from today, aims to empower managers to be more successful at connecting, listening and engaging with contacts across multiple social streams. According to the firm, social media early adopters are the linchpin for wider social business integration.

Jon Ferrara, CEO at Nimble, said: “Community managers are the first point of social contact at most companies and the ones that sales people go to for social selling advice. At Nimble we're not just enabling social selling, we're empowering companies to become complete social businesses.

“That starts with the first conversation which can happen with the community manager, sales, marketing or support. Nimble enables a unified approach to connecting the social conversations to the customer no matter which department is having them.

The company is partnering with My Community Manager, a global organisation for professional community managers, to host a live Google+ hangout on Friday 4 May.

Tim McDonald from My Community Manager said: “The best community managers tirelessly work to promote their brands. To do that, community managers today need an engagement platform that allows them to switch message and platform as appropriate, automatically connecting the conversations the entire company is having with their community to the contacts they're having them with. Nimble gives them that and more.”

Community managers interested in the free year-long subscription can sign up here.