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| Page 1 of 20 | Previous | Next | FRESHNETWORKS JULY 29, 2011  12 community platforms: a list in development There are a lot of community platforms on the market today and we thought it would be useful to collate a complete list of them. We hope it will eventually become a useful community platform tool resource. Get Satisfaction - a cost effective platform for SME business solutions. It can also be integrated with Facebook, Twitter and YouTube to create a digital hub. | FEVER BEE SEPTEMBER 25, 2011 A Useless Platform Last week I spoke at the eVirus conference in Vilnius, Lithuania, where the dominant theme was Facebook. Namely, how can we build a community on Facebook? Don't build a community on Facebook. Sure, Facebook has some uses. However, it's almost impossible to get this audience to meaningfully interact with each other on the platform. As a community platform, Facebook is lies somewhere between awful and redundant. Just ask yourself, how many times do you visit and interact with others on a branded Facebook page? | | | | | |
| JUSTIN LEVY JUNE 5, 2011  It’s Not About the Platform Now that Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and Flickr are out ahead as the major social networks, it becomes harder to debate social platforms, though it definitely still occurs, especially with location-based platforms. One area that has never ceased to die down and has continued to be hotly debated is blogging platforms. Blog Social Media PlatformsDebate is good. | CHRIS BROGAN JANUARY 20, 2012 97 Ideas for Building a Valuable Platform In determining how to deliver value and stay relevant and visible in this new landscape, I’ve written down 97 ideas to help you build a valuable platform. 97 Ideas for Building A Valuable Platform. These two thoughts combined are your best bet at defining your platform. Remember that there are all kinds of platform-making choices. You can use any other platform you want, but you must also use YouTube. This is the core of a humble platform. Ideas Drive Platform. This is a very difficult matter, and yet important to building your platform. | FEVER BEE DECEMBER 1, 2011 The Case Against Facebook As A Community Platform People get upset when you claim Facebook is a bad community platform. Does an active community member only post once per month? If each active fan posts just 5 comments a month (a low figure by community standards), the number of truly active fans drops by 80% or more. Even if this were not the case, 56,000 fans who make one contribution a month is hardly a sign of a healthy, engaged, community. Facebook isn't the best community platform, it's quite possibly the worst. doubt it. | WAXING UNLYRICAL DECEMBER 20, 2012  How To Grow Your Facebook Community This post will depress all the Facebook Ninjas who’ve drunk the Facebook Koolaid. One that could have a vibrant Facebook community, if they could just get to that point. But their Facebook Page has just 23 fans so far. Three of those are my two Facebook accounts, and the third is that of my partner. Image via niallkennedy on Flickr, CC 2.0. | | | | | | | |
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MINDJUMPERS | TUESDAY, MAY 3, 2011  How To Use Facebook For Marketing
Tweet Facebook has published a Best Practice Guide for how to use their platform for marketing. The guide provides a great overview of the marketing potential in having a presence on Facebook as well as suggestions for some strategic steps to go through when building a presence. If you are in need of formulating some goals for your Facebook initiative – here are some clearly defined objectives: • Foster product development and innovation – Learn about your target audience and understand their interests. The Facebook Ecosystem. Engage your fans. MORE >> -
MINDJUMPERS | WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 2011  What Happens When Facebook Fans Engage With You [infographic]
Looking for social media news, I stumbled across this infographic named “The Anatomy of a Fan&# , designed by MoonToast , a social commerce platform. On our blog yesterday, we wrote about how to increase your news feed ranking on Facebook , where we spoke about EdgeRank. The Engagement Spectrum focuses on how to increase interaction with fans by utilizing different types of content to drive conversations that deepen the relationship with the community. Similar Posts: How to Improve Your News Feed Ranking on Facebook. Tweet. The Fan Engagement Spectrum. MORE >> -
WAXING UNLYRICAL | TUESDAY, JANUARY 8, 2013  Facebook: Improving Employee Communications?
Whether you want to go for coffee, meet a friend or keep yourself posted on your friends’ birthdays, Facebook is where today’s generation updates each other by sharing the minutest details of their lives on the platform. Today, though, Facebook isn’t so much about friends, family or clients who are trying to connect with today’s generation. Today, even employers are making a move to connect with their younger workers through the platform. What do you think: will Facebook ever successfully bridge the gap between employers and employees? MORE >> -
DANNY BROWN | SUNDAY, JUNE 6, 2010  Posterous Grows Up as a Blogging Platform - Danny Brown
Home About Me Charities 12for12k Kiva Work With Me About This Blog Disclosure Comment Policy Headway Archives Contact Me Great Blogs Posterous Grows Up as a Blogging Platform June 6, 2010 20 voices share yours! As a quick-start blogging platform, Posterous offers a pretty robust platform to build your blogging expertise from. Posterous Grows Up with Pages A new feature just announced by Posterous sees the platform become a more bona-fide alternative to full-on blogging. It makes you part of a community which I also think is important.I Until now. Chhers! MORE >> -
SOCIALFISH | TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 2011  Open Community Case Study – Food Bank
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. Community: Food Bank of Central & Eastern North Carolina. On their Facebook page and Twitter account they aim to increase awareness of what they’re doing and what others are doing on their behalf. Facebook. See, it works! MORE >> -
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- 10 Community Manager Responsibilities that Don't Involve Twitter. TECHIPEDIA: TAMAR WEINBERG | WEDNESDAY, MARCH 17, 2010
- 97 Ideas for Building a Valuable Platform CHRIS BROGAN | FRIDAY, JANUARY 20, 2012
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- 3 Ways to Analyze Facebook Fan Page Traffic « THE MARKETING BLOG | TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 2010
- 10 Things to Consider As You Move to Google+ SPIN SUCKS | TUESDAY, JULY 5, 2011
- Branded Customer Communities: What Consumers Expect SOCIAL MARKETING FORUM | WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 2012
- The Four Social Strategies Applied to Facebook GEOFF LIVINGSTON | MONDAY, MAY 23, 2011
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- Facebook Reveals New Changes On Platform | Mindjumpers MINDJUMPERS | THURSDAY, OCTOBER 7, 2010
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- The Klout Story – Part 1 – Are You Reading Between The Lines? UNSPOKEN | TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 2011
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- 7 Skill Sets for Nurturing Open Community CONVINCE & CONVERT | TUESDAY, DECEMBER 7, 2010
- Case Study: Shoemocracy (A new online community about shoes) FEVER BEE | WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 2012
- Using Lijit As a Content Marketing Platform DANNY BROWN | THURSDAY, MARCH 31, 2011
- 35 (of the) Best Guides to Facebook Marketing, Advertising, Search and More of 2010 (So Far) WEBBIQUITY SMM | THURSDAY, AUGUST 26, 2010
- Interview with Community Manager: Ben Martin SOCIAL MEDIA CITIZENS | TUESDAY, MARCH 13, 2012
- Social Media Marketing Hall of Fame: The 50 Most Remarkable Platforms and Programs From 2006-2010 GAURAVONOMICS | MONDAY, DECEMBER 27, 2010
- An Open Letter to Facebook TECHIPEDIA: TAMAR WEINBERG | WEDNESDAY, APRIL 28, 2010
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- How to Choose a Social Media Listening Platform for B2B Marketing BUZZ MARKETING FOR TECHNOLOGY | THURSDAY, MARCH 18, 2010
- Facebook’s little secret… SHERRILYNNE STARKIE | MONDAY, AUGUST 20, 2012
- Interview with Community Manager: Morgan Clark from Mondo Management SOCIAL MEDIA CITIZENS | TUESDAY, JANUARY 24, 2012
- Platform Demographics FEVER BEE | THURSDAY, AUGUST 16, 2012
- The difference between an audience and a community in new media AKAMAI MARKETING | TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 2011
- A Tale of Two Communities Part II – Salesforce.com SOCIALFISH | THURSDAY, MARCH 3, 2011
- Interview with Community Manager: Will Long SOCIAL MEDIA CITIZENS | THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 2012
- Investing in Your External Community or the Future Valuation of Facebook? My Interview with Retail Prophet Doug Stephens THE BLAKERY | FRIDAY, OCTOBER 15, 2010
- Freemium Influencer Analysis platform from mPACT WEB METRICS GURU | TUESDAY, MAY 3, 2011
- Interview with Community Manager: Jonas de los Reyes from Yahoo! SOCIAL MEDIA CITIZENS | THURSDAY, MAY 12, 2011
- Why brands need fan action, not fan acquisition SIMON MAINWARING | WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 2010
- Best Social Media Stats, Facts and Marketing Research of 2010 WEBBIQUITY SMM | MONDAY, JANUARY 17, 2011
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- 7 Ways to Market Your Business on Facebook – Free Ebook - Danny Brown DANNY BROWN | THURSDAY, JUNE 3, 2010
- Once upon a time, I Believed in the Fairytale of Klout UNSPOKEN | FRIDAY, DECEMBER 2, 2011
- Free Online Community Management Resources On The Web FEVER BEE | WEDNESDAY, MAY 25, 2011
- The 9 Deadly Sins of Facebook Pages and Their Administrators JUSTIN LEVY | MONDAY, MAY 30, 2011
- 36 (of the) Best Facebook Guides, Stats and Rants of 2010 WEBBIQUITY SMM | MONDAY, JANUARY 10, 2011
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