Jon Loomer

JUNE 23, 2017

Facebook is rolling out new features for Group admins that will aid in the management of members and content. Let’s take a closer look at what you can expect, and how you might take advantage of these updates… Group Insights. Group Insights will give admins access to real-time metrics around growth and post engagement.

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Later

JUNE 26, 2020

Facebook Groups are an effective way to create a community, drive engagement, and improve customer relations for your brand or business. Ready to build a successful Facebook Group for your business? Ready to build a successful Facebook Group for your business? What are Facebook Groups. What are Facebook Groups .

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Webbiquity SMM

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Spread them around and be sure to keep your blog as your home base and have an email list (for example ConvertKit offers a forever-free trial account ). If you don’t have a blog, you can use Substack to host one. If you don’t the rules on Facebook, for example, they will lock you out of your account. It’s free!).

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Buffer Social

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

To help you stand out from the crowd, here’s some guidance — complete with tried-and-tested examples. In this article, you’ll find a host of tips, tricks, and tactics that can help you boost your already-planned Black Friday and Cyber Monday campaigns. billion in the U.S.

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Waxing UnLyrical

APRIL 29, 2015

Community fundraising goes beyond raising funds for a specific cause. It provides an opportunity to improve an entire community through the efforts of the fundraiser. Here’s one example of an organization that’s clearly been successful through their community fundraising efforts. Guest Post by Kari Kiel.

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SocialFish

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

We’re very excited to be kicking off a regular series of Open Community case studies, in which intrepid association blogger and freelance writer Deirdre Reid will be digging into associations (and other kinds of organizations when relevant) who are living and breathing their open communities in the ways we describe in the book.

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Sprout Social

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

When you think about the commitments that were made to individual communities and people altogether, taking that away is bad from a business perspective,” she says. The recognition and acknowledgement of diverse communities is so important for employees to feel seen, heard and included in the company culture.

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Keyhole.co

JANUARY 20, 2024

Create a separate Facebook group and community page Your first task is to set up your Facebook business page. One Facebook marketing strategy is to create a group for your business, where fans, customers, and anyone with an interest in your brand can come together and form a community. Their Facebook group has 3.2

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Jon Loomer

APRIL 14, 2020

Today, I wanted to show you how I set up and conduct webinar-style Facebook Live sessions for my private community. This is part of a series of posts I’ve written on a topic that’s more important now than ever, as businesses around the world are forced to prioritize communication with customers, partners, and staff online.

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SocialFish

MARCH 3, 2011

This post is the second in a two-part series where guest blogger Garry Polmateer , former association executive currently working at NimbleUser helping organizations with Salesforce, looks at two online brands through the lens of the concepts in our book, Open Community. Open Community Means Collaborating with a Purpose.

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Social Media Strategies Summit

JANUARY 12, 2023

Our panel was hosted by Aliza Rosen , Assistant Director of Social Media at Johns Hopkins University, and included: Kayla Bosco , Social Media Strategist, Syracuse University. One way Ohio State has overcome silos is by creating a social media community of practice group led by Dani’s team. You can’t do it all alone.

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Jon Loomer

MARCH 30, 2020

I’m hosting an upcoming training to walk you through all of the specifics regarding how I do it — and how you can do it, too. METHOD: Facebook Live to a private Facebook group using Ecamm Live. The Power Hitters Club is my exclusive private membership community. Power Hitters Club – Elite Weekly Webinars.

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Sprout Social

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Plus, we’ll show you some shining examples of what audience engagement looks like. Here are some examples of common types of audience engagement: Likes and reactions Likes and reactions are one of the simplest ways for an audience to engage with your brand on social media—all your target audience has to do is click or tap a button.

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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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agora pulse

APRIL 17, 2018

An active Facebook group will help you build a band of advocates who will talk about you not just in the group but elsewhere, both online and offline. In this post, we’ll take a look at how you can build an active and engaged Facebook group that helps you reach more people and (ultimately) increase sales and show ROI.

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agora pulse

APRIL 17, 2018

An active Facebook group will help you build a band of advocates who will talk about you not just in the group but elsewhere, both online and offline. In this post, we’ll take a look at how you can build an active and engaged Facebook group that helps you reach more people and (ultimately) increase sales and show ROI.

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Convince & Convert

MAY 15, 2014

Well, with over 150,000 communities with more than 10 people, and tens of thousands will thousands of members, Google+ is really happening. Types of G+ Communities There are two types of communities: 1. Private: This content cannot be shared outside of that community and can only be viewed by members.

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Hootsuite

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Users create posts in topic-based communities — called subreddits — and interact in comment threads. Reddit is all about fostering community by encouraging users (a.k.a. R.I.P. Yahoo Groups.). Subreddits have their own URL, for example the Star Wars subreddit can be found at www.reddit.com/r/StarWars. What is Reddit?

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Social Media Strategies Summit

AUGUST 11, 2022

Building a brand community isn’t about improving vanity metrics like engagement and follower count. According to a survey from Vanilla Forums , 58% of brands say their communities improve customer loyalty. Nine in ten consumers read reviews before making a purchase, so building review functionality into your community makes sense.

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Sprout Social

JULY 19, 2022

According to 72% of our LinkedIn community , hashtagging impacts the overall performance of social media content. We explore what hashtags are, how to use them and examples of ways brands are successfully ushering in the new era of hashtagging. Hashtagging examples to spark your next big idea. What is hashtagging?

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Buffer Social

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

When I first started building Diversability with the vision of creating a community of people with disabilities (and the allies who support us) elevating disability pride, I kept encountering roadblocks when trying to get the word out. Now, in 2023, we have 80,000 followers across our social networks and 5,800 in our closed communities.

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Hootsuite

JUNE 27, 2022

Discord is a platform for hosting real-time text, video, and voice chat. While other social platforms are oriented around one central community, Discord is divided into servers or many smaller communities. Here are some concrete examples of how Discord can contribute to your business’s social media marketing.

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Sprout Social

JULY 13, 2021

A cross between a video stream, variety show and group chat, livestream shopping is the next big thing in interactive social commerce. There’s a host, typically an influencer or celebrity, who highlights a product on the stream and viewers can purchase said product during the broadcast. A better way to shop from home.

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Sprout Social

JULY 21, 2022

You could post on community review sites or live-stream it to the masses. 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. Examples: Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram, Twitter, TikTok and Snapchat.

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Sprout Social

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Around this time, I decided to help revive our small women’s computer science group: Extraordinary Women of Computer Science (EWoCS). For example, Sprout holds monthly diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) Guild meetings that focus on educating our team about different cultures, identities and societal issues.

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Social Media Strategies Summit

MARCH 11, 2021

This is not to suggest you strike up a brand partnership with Elon Musk but you could absolutely try linking up with a slightly less high-profile influencer or content creator to co-host talks on subjects that relate to your business or closely align with your values. Brands have already been trialing this approach.

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Convince & Convert

JANUARY 13, 2015

It’s no small secret your online community and your loyal customers within are your company’s greatest asset. While a customer may be happy with their one-time experience with your brand, what’s going to make them a lifelong community member? Give your online community a nickname that’s exclusive amongst your group members.

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Sherrilynne Starkie

NOVEMBER 4, 2012

The new law provides a safe harbour to those who create and also those who host that content, for example.”. Lobbyists from the film, music and video games industries even hosted a fund-raising dinner for Bulte in advance of the election. This was when groups first started to come together to self-organize online.”.

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Hootsuite

MAY 3, 2023

For example, the terms “real estate agent” or “[your city] realtor” should be somewhere in the title so your page shows up in search results when people search for those terms. Join a Slack community You may already use Slack to communicate with your team internally, but have you ever thought of using it to generate real estate leads?

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Sprout Social

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Meryoli Arias , Senior Social Media and Community Manager, and Daniel Cmejla , Senior Director of Community, Customer Marketing, Events, PR, and Social, of Chili Piper gave us an inside look into how they approach social selling. According to Cmejla, being helpful is how you maintain authentic relationships within online communities.

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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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Buffer Social

JANUARY 22, 2024

Lia’s prediction is bolstered by her research on LinkedIn for a client and seeing examples of what corporate accounts such as Lyft, Robert Half, SEMRush, Vista Social, and Hubspot are doing on the platform.   There's a growing preference for smaller, specialized, trusted groups in community building.

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Convince & Convert

MAY 10, 2016

The online community pendulum is swinging back. It’s no longer enough to rely on social networks for community infrastructure. Smart companies are now combining owned and rented community functions into a 1+1=3 scenario I call Omni-Social. A commitment to moving beyond the hegemony of rented social community.

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Ignite Social Media

MARCH 4, 2021

Users can create or join Clubs (like groups or communities) or rooms where speakers can discuss whatever the host decides to allow. Rooms in Clubhouse are a bit like a panel at a convention; the host can invite people to come up to a virtual stage and those people can take turns talking. What is Clubhouse?

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Sprout Social

JUNE 22, 2021

Largest age group: 25-34 year olds. Largest age group: 15-25 year olds. Largest age group: 25-34 year olds. Largest age group: 30-49 year olds. Largest age group: 50-64 year olds. Key Stats: Over 2.8 billion global active users. 90 million US users. Average time spent per day: 33 minutes. Key Stats: Over 2.1

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Hootsuite

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Take the r/explainlikeimfive subreddit, for example. Users share complex ideas and the Reddit community breaks them down. In the example below, a “full class of 11th graders” got a simplified lesson in biology. Improve community engagement. Build a community. Communities can take many forms, too.

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Jon Loomer

JANUARY 26, 2017

There is no better example of this than a couple of campaigns I started running on Monday. While the groups I targeted is important, don’t overlook the exclusions. When I shared some preliminary results to my Power Hitters Club – Elite community , one question quickly came up: What was your ad? The Campaigns.

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