SocialFish

JANUARY 11, 2011

Just wanted to take this opportunity to thank everyone who reads, shares, comments on, tweets and otherwise supports our SocialFishing blog. Community platforms do not equal community. Here’s to more great conversations to come in 2011! in chronological order. Mobile apps are a waste of time for associations.

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Jason Yormark

JULY 22, 2009

But that doesn’t mean you can’t build yourself a thriving community. With a little time, research and the right plan, you can have yourself a platform to build your community with. Social Network Platforms 1. Three of the most used platforms these days are vBulletin , phpBB and Simple Forums.

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Harp Interactive

OCTOBER 9, 2009

Build community platforms around real communities of shared interest. Couple your email newsletter content with additional website content on a blog for improved commenting. Track your inbound links and when they come from blogs, be sure to comment on a few posts and build a relationship with the blogger.

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Mindjumpers

AUGUST 11, 2010

It happens spontaneously via the interactions between people on such sites, but also by assembling relevant pages and communities whereby you closely follow the feedback of the communities and provide a viral element. Next to the use of social network sites you can also use proprietary community platforms.

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Adam Cohen

JUNE 30, 2011

To that end, the first major step in our journey was the launch of EMC|ONE – An internal community platform for our global employees. Share and enjoy, and feel free to leave questions for Len in the comments. Thank you LD – this is tremendous insight and I’m grateful you shared EMC’s story here.

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Social Media Strategery

AUGUST 26, 2010

Events Calendar Subscribe: Posts | Comments | Email Social Media Strategery Best Of Best Practices Enterprise 2.0 platform haven’t even created profiles of themselves. If there’s a glitch involved with posting a new comment to a forum, they’re going to be the first ones to see it, diagnose the problem and fix it.

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Social Media Strategery

MARCH 8, 2011

Oh yeah, and you can’t use your admin privileges (the nuclear option) to just “lock&# or delete the conversation either because then you’re not community manager, you’re big brother. You will have to be the one who can start start and manage difficult conversations with the community.

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Adam Cohen

JUNE 30, 2011

To that end, the first major step in our journey was the launch of EMC|ONE – An internal community platform for our global employees. Share and enjoy, and feel free to leave questions for Len in the comments. Thank you LD – this is tremendous insight and I’m grateful you shared EMC’s story here.

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SocialFish

FEBRUARY 23, 2011

Just a quick follow-up to Maggie’s post on Community Management 101. Rachel Happe of the Community Roundtable pointed us to her slide deck on “Community Management Fundamentals&# in the comments; I wanted to make sure everyone sees it. Thanks, Rachel!

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Jeff Esposito

JUNE 3, 2011

If enough comments below ask for the story I will schill it out. Facebook is the hotness that many are using as their community platform to build out oodles of fans (Twitter and LinkedIn are doing this to a lesser extent). How was your week? Any big plans for the weekend? Who owns your brand’s social media data?

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Koka Sexton

DECEMBER 5, 2008

link] – This Contra Costa Times is my local newspaper and though they have a pretty low level community platform on their website someone thought far enough ahead to set up a Twitter profile. Leave a comment! Getting pumpkins with the boy. (@ Clayton Valley Pumpkin Farm) [link] Recent comments Koka Sexton dot Com: [.]

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Koka Sexton

DECEMBER 5, 2008

link] – This Contra Costa Times is my local newspaper and though they have a pretty low level community platform on their website someone thought far enough ahead to set up a Twitter profile. Leave a comment! Getting pumpkins with the boy. (@ Clayton Valley Pumpkin Farm) [link] Recent comments Koka Sexton dot Com: [.]

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JULY 7, 2008

4) None of the following are community platforms: Wikis, Blogs or Forums. These are not platforms…these are implementations on top of platforms. A wiki may have all these things, but that does not a platform make. Why not let us know what you think by adding your own comment! Josh: Good point.

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ProBlogger

MAY 8, 2012

Free software such as Audacity and free webcasting platforms such as Anymeeting make it easy to record your voice and create short audio trainings for your audience. Use it as part of the content for members of a member community platform. Leave a comment and let us know. Get it transcribed and turn it into an ebook.

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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 8, 2012

Deb: It’s hard, because we don’t want to spam people, and we don’t want to say, “Will you please comment on my blog, dammit?” Jay: I like that quote, “You can’t schedule community.” So many times now, it seems that Facebook in particular has become the de facto community platform.

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ProBlogger

DECEMBER 11, 2012

Personal investment: successful communities solicit active contributions from every member. It’s not enough to ask members what they think and respond to a few comments. Feature contributions from members: prominently feature the contributions of members on your community platform. Co-ordinate events with your members.

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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 3, 2010

The increasing use of Facebook as an e-commerce platform (see excellent, elegant solutions from ShopTab ), demonstrate that Facebook can make you money, not just friends. And the link to his article about it couldn't have been posted to FB with the same “explanation&# as the one mentioned in the comments above.

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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 3, 2010

The increasing use of Facebook as an e-commerce platform (see excellent, elegant solutions from ShopTab ), demonstrate that Facebook can make you money, not just friends. And the link to his article about it couldn't have been posted to FB with the same “explanation&# as the one mentioned in the comments above.

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Sprout Social

AUGUST 2, 2022

The answers change as you move across platforms and through time. If you picked up TikTok during the pandemic, you might have been looking for a lockdown diversion—a goal that TikTok recognizes as it brands itself as an “ entertainment platform ” rather than a social media platform. Think about your first social media account.

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