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Getting to the bottom of community management

Jeff Esposito

This post originally ran on the Community Roundtable. . If you read business publications, blogs or websites to any extent, you have probably heard about community management. Next to social media management, community management might be the hottest buzzword or buzzcareerpath (I think we just made up a new buzzword).

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Five Takeaways from the 2012 State of Community Management Report

Jeff Esposito

One of the more interesting, but challenging, aspects of my job is community management. Effective managers do not view their community as tied to a specific technology or network, but rather as a group of users who share principles and interests. Evolution – communities are not built overnight.

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Are you in a blogging rut?

Jeff Esposito

As I’ve been going through the list of people I follow on Twitter looking to see who has blogs that I should be following I couldn’t help but notice a trend: people were neglecting their blogs. My blog does not have a clear focus, and it is somewhere between a little bit personal and somewhat big professional. Just write.

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What is the best blog platform for my wife?

Jeff Esposito

Home About Archives Press Clips Spark Advisors Suggested Reading What is the best blog platform for my wife? Written on September 13, 2010 by Espo in Life , Random As many of you know, I am married, but what you probably don’t know is that the lovely Mrs. Espo is the editor in chief of this blog. I love WP and use it for this blog.

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What’s your story?

Jeff Esposito

But knowing your story and why others should care is something that everyone participating in social media, blogging or managing a brand’s social presence or community should do. Why should they come back to your website or community? I started this blog to talk the things I geek out about and draw from life experiences.

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Friends with benefits, conquering fear and non-sexy products

Jeff Esposito

Now that I have to apologize for deviating from the main messaging of this blog to ask you to consider peeping out some panels for SXSW 2013 that me and some of my coworkers at Vistaprint are on. It is perfect for brand or community managers looking for ways to help build up a strong community that will share your brand’s message.

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Facebook’s the crack and we’re all greedy junkies

Jeff Esposito

The change triggered a lot of negative blog posts in the social media and community management communities. What we were all victim of is that we built communities on Mark Zuckerberg’s platform for two reasons. Facebook and the social media echo-chamber have failed the small business community in how to use the platform.

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