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Community management and content creation

Janet Fouts

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. That just shows how little respect they have for the community.

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5 ways to use social media for solution marketing

Buzz Marketing for Technology

3) Leverage your community – Whether you build your own or rent one from a provider like LinkedIn Groups, a community is a great place to promote a new solution to your existing customers. When you do that the results reported in a recent Jive report of over 2000 customers are outstanding.

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Best Social Media Monitoring Tools

Bill Hartzer

Facebook and Twitter are some of the main outlets for social media, but there are numerous types of social media like blogs, wikis, forums, chat rooms, etc. You can also measure and track engagement while determining which conversations in chat rooms, forums, etc. These are the top social media monitoring tools out there.

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How to easily find customers on social media

Absolute PA

Yes, regularly sharing updates on your social media profiles or in your chosen online forums is one way to get seen. It starts with this: Make friends and be a valuable member of the community. I’ll say it again: Make friends and be a valuable member of the community. Research and find 2-3 active communities online.

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3 Golden Business Rules for Social Media Engagement

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

On a particular forum I am active on (yes, I still use them!), Sadly, this person’s post was pulled by the strict moderators on that forum; the post was purely self-promotional and nothing but. Just do it while giving back to the community as well. Have you read The New Community Rules ? Want to self promote?

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Dear IT Guy, Can You Actually Use the Tool You're Creating.

Social Media Strategery

Now, take a look at the official support areas for WordPress , Telligent , MindTouch , Jive or any of the dozens of social software vendor sites. The developers are often the most active members of their respective communities and they’re using their own software day after day in the course of doing their jobs. Notice anything?

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Social Media Strategy: 10 Experts Reveal Their Secrets

Viper Chill

That means setting aside time to answer community questions, point people to resources, and find ways to be useful to your audience – whether that’s educating or simply entertaining them. The great thing about Twitter is that anyone can sign up and easily find his “community.&# Use Twitter as your company office hours.