Social Media Strategery

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Start Your Community With Role Models, Not Influencers

Social Media Strategery

They were role models who would care for the community as if it were their own. "In "In Pinterest’s early days, Silbermann gave out his cell-phone number, attended blogger meet-ups, and personally composed weekly emails that were sent out to Pinterest’s tiny, but growing, community. "It’s

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The Many Roles of an Internal Community Manager

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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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What Does Integrated Marketing Mean to the Future of the PR Professional?

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This article originally appeared in the April edition of the International Association of Business Communicators (IABC) magazine, Communication World. . For years, marketing, advertising, and public relations folks fought over budgets, scopes of work, ownership, and talent. In 2012, that number increased to more than $1.2

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The Future of Branding is About Making Friends, Not Ads

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" Social Media Is About Cultivating Community, Not Corralling Cattle. "The " If You Want a True Community on Social Media, You Have to Create It. "As Are we crafting community strategies with the brands' objectives truly in mind? Ads alone aren't going to win you many friends.

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Can Greater Social Connections Improve Higher Education?

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That’s why when I saw that the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation recently invested $2 million in a Facebook app to improve post-secondary education, I knew that I had to find out more about this app and how it might help further the SMCEDU mission. Students self organize on Facebook all the time. Created by Inigral Inc. ,

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Set Your New Social Media Manager Up For Success

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"), low resources ("you're all we could get approved for this year"), and an unclear place on the org chart ("well, you'll technically report to me, but you'll be working with Suzie down the hall most of the time as well as being a dotted line to Tom in Marketing"). Provide a clear job description.

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Pay to Play: Seven Ways Social Media is Getting More Expensive

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For a long time, there was a perception that social media marketing was free, or at least very inexpensive. Starting a Facebook or Twitter account was free, and hiring a part-time intern to manage them didn’t cost much. In reality, social media marketing has never been free. billion industry. It’s a vicious cycle.