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What A Dog’s Cancer Taught Me About Community

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Thanks to the relative flexibility of running my own business and incredibly understanding partners and clients, I was able to reduce business travel to the bare minimum to focus on finding the best treatment options—and venue—for Suzy. Through Facebook. This is not an ode to Facebook. We are a community.

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Building a New Kind of Cruise Community

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Regular WUL readers know that Shonali (a friend and former colleague at Socialmedia.biz ) showcases guest posts about how to build, engage and sustain an online community, among other things. so that others might gain insights for their own community efforts. , so that others might gain insights for their own community efforts.

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Facebook: Improving Employee Communications?

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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. What do you think: will Facebook ever successfully bridge the gap between employers and employees?

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#measurePR Recap (August 2017): How Measurement Affects Strategy Development

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Don’t miss this stellar opportunity to gain measurement smarts from this Sisterhood of the Traveling AMEC Board Members as I call them (ha!). So, mark your calendars for September 14th from 12-1pm ET and RSVP to our Facebook event. Khali Sakkas , Chief Executive of Insights & Research for Isentia and AMEC Board member.

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Lessons in Listening and Customer Outreach From Chobani

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The Chobani Facebook page. And the company has used a lot of the techniques I discussed recently, right here on WUL, on growing your Facebook community. WUL : And how many tweets and Facebook comments a day (or week) do you guys get? WUL : And how many tweets and Facebook comments a day (or week) do you guys get?

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How to Make Your Email Autoresponders Sizzle More Than Jessica Rabbit

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There must be something in the wind, because after months of not traveling I’m suddenly all over the map. Over time you’ll see that this extremely useful automation that we’ve come to rely on will make you look anything but robot-like to your network … and help transform them into your community.

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Monday Roundup: Sustaining Relationships

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Why: Between travel, presentations, business development, and life, the task list of the small business owner seems neverending. Quit Asking for Likes On Facebook or Risk a Penalty. Why: Facebook’s getting flooded with spammy attempts from Pages to gain likes. Janet Fouts explores the benefits of #MindfulSocial.