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10 Inspiring Examples of Amazing Brand Communities

Social Media Strategies Summit

Building a brand community isn’t about improving vanity metrics like engagement and follower count. According to a survey from Vanilla Forums , 58% of brands say their communities improve customer loyalty. Nine in ten consumers read reviews before making a purchase, so building review functionality into your community makes sense.

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How to Get the Best Internet Marketing Posts of 2011

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Every year, I spend hundreds, perhaps thousands of hours reading articles on Internet Marketing for my annual Best Internet Marketing Posts blog post. The posts for the last five years are: Best Internet Marketing Posts of 2010. Best Internet Marketing Posts of 2009. Best Internet Marketing Posts of 2008.

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The History of Social Media in 33 Key Moments

Hootsuite

YouTube makes partners, the OG influencers (2007) Through YouTube’s elephantine beginnings , the buzz grew. In May 2007, YouTube introduced its partnership program. The hashtag arrives (2007) The strict 140-character limit for tweets set Twitter apart from rivals, including Facebook and Tumblr.

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How OWN Creates Community and Multi-Platform Success With Social Video

Social Media Strategies Summit

When her show ended in 2011, it was obvious she wasn’t going anywhere. Specifically, would women of color be interested in a dedicated social community? To solve for this need, OWN recently launched The Know: An OWN Community. The Know: An OWN Community. To get the answer, they reached out to over 5,000 women of color.

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Top 10 Search Engine Optmization Blunders of 2011

Bill Hartzer

This year, though, I thought that I would come up with a new list, the Top 10 Search Engine Optimization Blunders of 2011. I cannot possibly forget Robert Scoble’s apology to the SEO community as a whole, saying that he was wrong. I am listing this as the number one blunder of 2011 since this affected not just Overstock.com.

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Webinar Recap: A Decade in Social Media. What’s Now. What’s Next?

Ignite Social Media

We kicked off the webinar with Lisa Braziel, our SVP, talking about how she was one of the original community managers in 2007. Facebook brand pages didn’t exist in 2007 and the focus was around one to one engagement and community building. Influencer marketing and paid is another way to gain exposure.

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15 Lessons That Took Me 15 Years to Learn by Jim Tobin

Ignite Social Media

In this session, Jim shares his personal journey of success in the world of social media and influencer marketing. Ignite was founded in 2007, Carusele was founded in 2015, and that’s just been such a long time. Ignite Social Media launched in 2007, just a few months before the first iPhone came out.