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Is a Discord community right for your brand?

Sprout Social

Discord is the future of online communities. Traditionally associated with gamers, the platform has gone mainstream. Gen Z, in particular, is opting to spend time in smaller, private online communities. Discord is not a traditional social media platform. Instead, it is a community platform.

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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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Activation, Comfort, and Other Secrets of Online Community Management

Convince & Convert

It is Jay Baer joined today by a very special guest, my friend who is the Director of Community and all things fabulous at BlogWorld and also the author of Online Community Management For Dummies , Ms. It really is a treasure trove of advice and best practices around community management. Deb, how are you? How are you?

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7 Skill Sets for Nurturing Open Community

Convince & Convert

Tweet Guest post as part of the virtual book tour by Maddie Grant and Lindy Dreyer to explore concepts from their new book Open Community : a little book of big ideas for associations navigating the social web. We come from the association industry and for many of us “membership” people, community is old hat. It’s what we do.

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The Many Roles of an Internal Community Manager

Social Media Strategery

When someone in the communications industry refers to a “ community manager ,&# they are usually referring to someone that can manage the online relationships for a particular brand, using tools like Facebook, Twitter, and blogs. The Internal Community Manager wears many hats. Yeah, that’s going to be you.

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4 Emerging Social Media Trends to Watch in 2020

Social Media Strategies Summit

In 2019 we saw several social platforms grow and continue to mature – from industry giants like Facebook and Instagram to emerging platform TikTok and more niche sites like Pinterest. This trend toward growth and diversity means that no one social platform or channel can be ignored. Source: Facebook Groups.

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Beyond integrations, Sprout’s focus on partnership adds value for our customers

Sprout Social

The results will be not only more successful utilization of the Sprout platform, but more compelling community conversations and engagements across your social channels. Rely on up-to-date experiences with social networks and community platforms. If you’re not using some of them already, take a closer look.

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