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How Socially Responsible Communications Maintain Your Community Cool

Waxing UnLyrical

Another great resource or ally can come from working with a trusted research firm that can help you “uncover the hidden patterns of understanding that undermine citizen action,” as the Topos Partnership has done for a variety of communities in at least seven different sectors. How do you qualify your audience for each campaign?

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12 Tips to Organize and Run a Tweetathon

Waxing UnLyrical

There are so many things I’ve learned during the course of this campaign – about blogger outreach, about measurement and analytics, about Facebook Groups, about community building – there are probably a ton of posts waiting to be written. The very first tweetathon we held was on June 13, 2011. Background.

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Bringing Open Community To Public Relations

Waxing UnLyrical

Because if there’s one thing I believe takes public relations from good to great, it’s when your audiences start becoming your community through the relationships you develop with them. But I was curious to see how Maddie and Lindy perceived not just Open Community , but its juxtaposition with public relations.

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The Nifty 50 Top Women of Twitter for 2011

Webbiquity SMM

Cheryl and I thought it would be a great idea to collaborate on this special social media project—and so the process began for creating the 2011 #Nifty50 List of Top Twitter Women. Jenara is an Asia-based filmmaker, organic farmer, and freelance journalist for Fast Company magazine and CNNGo, as well as a Harvard and Berkeley grad.

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Link Love Monthly: Best of March 2011

SocialFish

MIT Media Lab Identity, 2011 from readyletsgo on Vimeo. 8 Signs You Have Outgrown Your Online Community Platform (Socious Member Engagement Blog). Your Association: The Living Organism (MidCourse Corrections). The Social Website: Integrating Social Media Into Your Website (Community Organizer 2.0). Ecosystems.

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2011 Q1 Review: SocialFish clients and work

SocialFish

Here’s a review of what we’ve been up to in the first quarter of 2011. STRATEGY WORK –We have clients who come to us at a stage where they understand the tools, they see the benefits, and they need help defining a social media strategy for their organization. Busy as usual! Strategy clients. SPEAKING AND TRAINING.

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Link Love Monthly: Best of February 2011

SocialFish

Background of the Corporate Social Strategist: Educated, with a Focus on Communications and Marketing (Jeremiah Owyang). Creating Community on a Facebook Page (Debra Askanase). Designing An Organization from the Outside-In (Beth Harte). unassociated 2011 is open for registration! The Art of Social. Olivier Blanchard).