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What social media tasks to automate and what to personalize

Sprout Social

Automation saves time—Sprout’s Social Media Productivity report highlights that almost 60% of marketers using tools have time to get work done and focus on the activities that really need their attention. Without their backing, social media can become siloed, underfunded or pushed aside for other marketing activities.

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Community Bootstrapping: Tools & Strategies To Build A Community.

Jason Yormark

While community is a hot buzz word these days, it’s still quite a ways before most businesses truly embrace the idea. Companies like Starbucks , Dell , even my previous employer Microsoft Advertising , all do community incredibly well and it has paid off for all of them many times over.

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15 of the Best Social Media Monitoring Tools to Save You Time

Hootsuite

Social media monitoring helps you track key social metrics like brand awareness and social share of voice. The social listening part is more active and strategic. With its 330 million average monthly active users and 14 billion average views per month, Reddit is a social site you can’t ignore. Hootsuite RSS Syndicator.

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What's your social currency?

Akamai Marketing

What I AM suggesting is that you brands and companies give serious consideration to what they have to OFFER the community and what motivates their community to be part of social media at all. What you give your community, otherwise, seriously, why should they care? 640 Million on Facebook. Million users on YouTube.

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Making Dough(nuts): A Real World Example of Using Social Media.

Jason Yormark

For the past few months I’ve had the luxury of watching a new local business not only use social networking and community building to build buzz for their business, but integrate it so much so, that it is an integral part of their day to day routine. Active Engagement – FROST does not rest on its laurels.

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Nuggets from Social Media workshops as of late. : Community Group Therapy

Buzz Marketing for Technology

I’ve done a number of workshops the past few months with clients designed to do two primary things: Land a common understanding across the teams involved around what social media, communities and influencer programs really are and more importantly why it matters to a business. Each workshop is its own learning process. Go join that!

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Controlling The Conversation: Strategies To Get People Talking.

Jason Yormark

It’s about the strategies and methods to incorporate in your communities and social spaces to facilitate mutually beneficial conversations. Be Everywhere The first step that any business needs to take is establishing themselves as a company that embraces community. In other words, a community platform that lives on your site.