The Realtime Report

JANUARY 29, 2019

Become a Fearless Online Community Leader. What’s the difference between productive online conversations and angry online snipping matches? Online communities are powerhouses of collaboration that demand fearless leaders to succeed. Here is how to become an effective online community leader. By Bruce Fikowski. Leadership.

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Oktopost

MAY 12, 2021

It turns out that creating a brand community for your B2B company can give you that type of mouthwatering ROI. . B2B businesses need to foster a strong spirit of community to serve their clients and customers better. Let’s take a deeper look to learn how you can build a beneficial community around your B2B brand.

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B2B Communities Brands Loyalty 121

Social Media Strategies Summit

AUGUST 15, 2023

As you might expect from someone who heads up a higher education social listening company, Liz is attuned to pretty much everything that happens in the industry, making her a valuable source of information (and analysis) on big news, trends, and other developments: The hot water the Stanford president found himself in started in online forums.

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Buffer Social

AUGUST 30, 2023

Both creators and marketers alike are tapping into the power of fostering communities — and with good reason. We asked both online community experts and community-building creators to share their expertise, so you can tap into this powerful approach. What is a community? So how do you do it? And is it worth it?

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Sprout Social

JULY 21, 2022

What about forums? You could post on community review sites or live-stream it to the masses. Discussion forums. Community blogging sites. For brands, social media networking sites offer an opportunity to build awareness, create a community of customers and followers and drive traffic to websites. Discussion forums.

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Ignite Social Media

MAY 27, 2016

So, when I was asked to share what the future of community management would be like, at first it felt like an impossible task. Perhaps you are feeling the strife of defining “community management”, or trying to figure out where a discipline that touches so many areas of your business fits on your org chart. You’re not alone.

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Firebelly

JULY 24, 2013

David Spinks – Community Man. To say that David Spinks loves community is an understatement. He’s all about community – and he’s got a track record that proves it. His other enterprises include BlogDash and The Community Manager where he still actively writes. Can every company grow and maintain community?

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JUNE 19, 2012

Maintaining traditional channels like phone, email and live chat support are a must—but a solid support community can cut that burden drastically, saving you time and money. But good communities are more than support channels. An effective support community relies on members to generate much of the support. It’s Worked Before.

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ProBlogger

MARCH 24, 2022

The post 7 Strategies for Growing Community on Your Blog appeared first on ProBlogger. Recently on ProBlogger we’ve been looking at the topic of building community on a blog. We started by identifying 9 benefits and 3 costs of community on a blog and then looked at 5 stages of building community on a blog.

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Janet Fouts

FEBRUARY 11, 2013

” Community Management Isn’t Content Creation. (go Now, I don’t 100% disagree with him that not all community managers are suited to create content. To tell great stories you have to stop having your community managers produce your content. Some are great conversation wranglers, s**t-disturbers even.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 12, 2011

Her community outreach on behalf of Electronic Arts was amazing and her engagement with customers gives all of us lessons to live by. What’s a typical day like for you as the EA SPORTS Active Community Manager? There are a number of channels (Facebook, Twitter, forums, etc.) I would say that a typical day is very busy.

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Jason Yormark

JULY 22, 2009

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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Social Media Strategies Summit

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Provide Community News & Updates. Arguably the most obvious use case of social media for government agencies is providing news and relevant updates to your community. Treat Social Media As a Two-Way Conversation. Of course, conversations must be a two-way process. Use Community & Event-Specific Hashtags.

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Hootsuite

JUNE 28, 2023

Bonus: Download a free guide to learn how to use social media listening to boost sales and conversions today. Word of mouth , including podcast mentions, in-person conversations, or you and your bestie on the phone. People join private Facebook Groups or forums to meet and talk with other like-minded people. What is dark social?

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Social Media Strategery

MARCH 8, 2011

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. With the growing ubiquity of Enterprise 2.0

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ProBlogger

MARCH 24, 2022

The post 7 Strategies for Growing Community on Your Blog appeared first on ProBlogger. Recently on ProBlogger we’ve been looking at the topic of building community on a blog. We started by identifying 9 benefits and 3 costs of community on a blog and then looked at 5 stages of building community on a blog.

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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

The days of the leased social community are fading, and it’s time to re-embrace owned social. Before the rise of MySpace and Facebook and Twitter and Tumblr, the “original” social media was created in the unglamorous yet impactful world of discussion boards and forums. Thus, the trend pendulum (the trendulum?) It was the best of times.

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Communities Real Estate Forums Loyalty 60

ProBlogger

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

The post 7 Ways to Build a Community Around Your Blog appeared first on ProBlogger. Last week I talked about building a community around your blog , and how it can benefit you as much as it can your readers. Well, this week I’m going to give you seven practical tips and strategies on how you can go about building that community.

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Hootsuite

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

By tuning in to the conversations that your target audience is having–both about your brand and the broader topics in your industry–you can gain valuable insights into how they think, what they care about, and what motivates them. Bonus: Download a free guide to learn how to use social media listening to boost sales and conversions today.

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Janet Fouts

JANUARY 4, 2011

I had a very interesting conversation with a Facebook application developer today. If it’s not yours, or if it is, please– for the love of community –pitch in and SAY something! We were talking about how to build community on a Facebook page and whether or not that’s really even possible. They’re businesses.

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Webbiquity SMM

JANUARY 23, 2024

Some key conversations may even slip through the cracks. Understanding your customer’s feelings requires a deep dive into the intent behind their social media conversations. Regular social listening assesses conversations around your brand and industry and offers insights on the most relevant trends for your brand.

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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 8, 2012

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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BeingOptimist

AUGUST 8, 2023

Primarily used in platforms such as forums, social media, and messaging apps, the term and its uses reflect an influential shift towards internet-based lingo within the cultural sphere. Similar to other acronyms such as LOL or BRB, FTFY emerged as a shorthand for a common phrase in conversation.

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Posterous Sentiment Forums Trends 75

Social Media Strategery

OCTOBER 31, 2011

A community of practice (CoP) is, according to cognitive anthropologists Jean Lave and Etienne Wenger , a group of people who share an interest, a craft, and/or a profession. Sounds like we might already be members of dozens of communities of practice – at work, at church, at school, etc. A CoP is built around conversation.

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Keyhole.co

APRIL 3, 2024

It has become a global powerhouse for real-time news, conversations, and marketing. Twitter communities Join the Twitter Community. X is all about making connections, and what better way to do that than through Twitter Communities? So, let’s jump in and explore what makes Twitter tick for businesses.

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Dave Fleet

FEBRUARY 28, 2013

What if, instead of thinking about conversations in ones and twos, you had to think about them in thousands and tens of thousands? Community Management: How do you go from 1:1 to 1:1,000,000? Community management at scale requires brands to reassess the norms they hear espoused daily. What would change?

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Social Media Communities Overview Forums 393

ProBlogger

AUGUST 1, 2012

I’ll answer that question with another one: do you think of your blog as a publishing platform with occasional interaction, or a full-blown community? Consider the potential of integrating forums into your website. Working with an online community development expert, Heather integrated a Q&A forum into her website.

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Sprout Social

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

It shows that your audience is actively engaging in a conversation about your brand. Comments and replies Similar to reviews and mentions, comments and replies show that your target audience wants to engage in a conversation about you. They are passionate about what you do and want to tell people about it.

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Social Media Strategery

AUGUST 22, 2011

Take five minutes and do a quick search of your organization’s blogs, microblogs, wikis, and forums that are available behind your firewall – and then let me know what the most popular topics are. If so, Mr. Popularity may be taking over your community and the worst part of it all? Let’s do an experiment.

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Communities Microblogging Web 2.0 Wiki 114

Dave Fleet

MARCH 8, 2012

From my perspective, it means that your community management, monitoring and measurement folks are now your best friend. Community management , because as a brand you need to be watching the activity on your page and watching for spikes in attention.

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Social Media Strategery

JANUARY 23, 2012

Unfortunately, as many have already discovered and many more will continue to discover, successful communities are dependent on many variables, from the accessibility, speed, and reliability of the technology to your community managers. What group/community receives the most visits and/or posts on a particular day? 10% to 49%.

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Likeable

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Reddit, on the other hand, is a niche social media platform that’s essentially a series of forums where users can share news, content, and interact with one another. This social media platform is greatly different from Instagram or Facebook in that the Reddit community is directly determining what content gets seen through voting.

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Webbiquity SMM

APRIL 13, 2021

Real-time conversation app Clubhouse has had an incredibly fast start. For anyone not aware of the social conversation’s app brief but remarkable history to date, Clubhouse was launched in April 2020 on the iPhone only. If you’re not there, you miss a conversation forever.” An Android version is in the works.

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Later

APRIL 16, 2021

The trending audio-only app presents a world of opportunity to build community, connect with listeners, and set yourself apart as a thought leader in your industry. We’re sharing 4 ways to establish an engaging marketing strategy — this is one conversation you’ll want to tune into! Join Industry-relevant Rooms and Conversations.

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Marketing Collaboration Hosting Industry 111

Oktopost

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

Catch the conversation by searching for B2B Marketing Now and subscribing wherever you listen to podcasts. Some Key Takeaways From Megan Thudium: Create captivating content by understanding your audience on such a level that you can have a meaningful conversation. Engage with questions and comment on other’s content.

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Sprout Social

MAY 24, 2022

They’re more like actual conversations and not as cold and robotic.”. According to Zendesk’s Customer Experience Trends 2022 report , more than 70% of customers expect conversational care experiences when they engage with companies. Brands are going viral from replies and messages on forums which were previously 1:1,” says Green.

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Sprout Social

AUGUST 25, 2020

With billions of visits per month and 430+ million active users , the platform represents one of the most engaged communities online. Beyond Reddit’s front page, discussions are separated by individual communities known as “subreddits.” Because Reddit is a community, not a platform for self-promotion.”

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