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JANUARY 25, 2021

What’s a community manager? And why should community managers have their own special day? Find out more about this special social media role and tips for celebrating Community Manager Day. We’ll look at the role of the community manager throughout history and how it has evolved. Pre-Internet.

Communities 112

Communities Forums Disqus Social Media Management 112

Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

HP Communities. Search: HP Communities. Use email, threaded discussions, blogs, and wikis to share what you know and think, ask questions and solicit help, and build credibility and a good reputation. Communities of Practice. Cultivating Communities of Practice. Wikipedia KM Entry: Further Reading.

Wiki 100

Wiki Sports Collaboration Social Networking 100

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

AUGUST 18, 2010

My uncle knows a young girl from his community, a recent college graduate, who is looking for a social media job. Reply Deb Ng August 19, 2010 at 8:55 am Jenn Fowler (@jennfowler) and I joked the other day about starting a support group for our spouses and other social media widows and widowers. Thanks Deb! Thanks for playing!

Activities 216

Activities Social Media Policies Social Networking 216

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 28, 2010

To be sure, though, solicit feedback from a group of trusted peers not directly involved in your company or marketing objectives before going ahead with publishing the video, since you need an unbiased opinion. 12484 SUBSCRIBERS FOLLOWERS Lijit Search Read more about The New Community Rules Get Techipedia on your iPhone or iPod touch!

Video 236

Video Flash Mob YouTube MySpace 236

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 17, 2010

Every time I tell someone I’m a Community Manager , I get a varied response. &# That last one might be the most honest of the three, since asking a Community Manager whether they tweet for a living is like asking a construction worker if they cat-call for a living, or a doctor if he asks people to say “ah!&# for a living.

Communities 237

Communities Twitter Web 2.0 ROI 237

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 12, 2010

Calls to Action Have Benefits For starters, leveraging your primary site and email communications is by far the easiest way to reach your existing consumer base, since they are the ones that typically spend the most time visiting your site and reading the emails you send them. Tamar is also the author of The New Community Rules (July 2009).

Smart Phone 218

Smart Phone Mobile Social Media SEO 218

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

NOVEMBER 28, 2007

That story hit the front page of Reddit and on Digg , and 67 people voted on my comment : Props to Reddit for visibly interacting with the community it serves. I actually found Digg’s community to be more open and accepting than Reddit’s, but to be fair I probably approached Reddit in the wrong way. Answers Yahoo!

Digg 100

Digg Reddit Web 2.0 StumbleUpon 100

Josh S Peters

OCTOBER 20, 2009

Right now the camps seem to be polarized and split into two very outspoken groups. Wikipedia defines KPI as “A performance indicator or key performance indicator (KPI) is a measure of performance. Building your reputation and community while strengthening your brand over time. it's pretty cut and dry.

ROI 161

ROI Social Media Metrics Loyalty 161

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

APRIL 10, 2008

I’d love to befriend everyone or even specify groups of friends to which I’d subscribe so that I can get updates delivered to my RSS reader (versus other updates that I would check on a more infrequent basis), though for the time being, the team has not worked that out. Google, Wikipedia and FriendFeed. Answers Yahoo!

Plaxo 103

Plaxo Picasa StumbleUpon Netvibes 103

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

NOVEMBER 28, 2007

Earlier this month, I wrote a blog post about how you cannot be a participant of a community without understanding the community members therein. It’s so new that the community is being created right now as we speak. And for that reason, you should join–now. That’s why Mixx has a lot of potential. So why Mixx?

Review 102

Review Digg StumbleUpon Web 2.0 102

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 4, 2010

Twitter, he says, “became my way of talking with a community of people.&# More importantly, they’ve created a go-to place or space for community. Roger Smith Hotel also teaches us another thing: you should take advantage of your market by giving them opportunities exclusive to their communications channel. izmantot soci?los

Hotels 245

Hotels Social Media Communities Discount 245

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

NOVEMBER 26, 2007

Totally connected groups are average sharers, creating as much as they can consume and using free sites to display it all. BTW – I’ve really been interacting with the Digg community more and more. It really is about being a part of the community. Tamar is also the author of The New Community Rules (July 2009).

Meme 100

Meme Digg Web 2.0 StumbleUpon 100

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

SEPTEMBER 23, 2009

A lot of the major content producers like publishing groups have too much overhead to compete on price with bloggers etc and there’s too many places to get the same content so they can’t differentiate. 12484 SUBSCRIBERS FOLLOWERS Lijit Search Read more about The New Community Rules Get Techipedia on your iPhone or iPod touch!

Aggregator 151

Aggregator Content Digg Posterous 151

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 12, 2009

In my upcoming book, The New Community Rules: Marketing on the Social Web ( Amazon link ), which is slated to be released in late Spring, I talk about the importance of brand evangelism as part of an effective community management strategy. I just think that the *active* cruise community is definitely a bit disappointed.

Brands 133

Brands Message Boards Travel Forums 133

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 9, 2008

As a top Digg submitter, it worked like this: at first, people noticed my heavy community involvement and my participation , and consequently, my submitted stories easily front-paged. The community had to react. But you still have to build a reputation as a known submitter. There’s no real community in Digg.

Digg 100

Digg Sites News API 100

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

AUGUST 27, 2008

Many people found the research interesting, but a number of people commented that the social networks probably shouldn’t be grouped together. So the question arose – was social media traffic misrepresented by grouping traffic from all networks together? Tamar is also the author of The New Community Rules (July 2009).

Social Media 100

Social Media StumbleUpon SEO ROI 100

Social Media Strategery

JANUARY 26, 2009

Our first group is the Junior Employee - For junior employees - “Yeah, that’s great that I can start a blog that everyone in the organization can read, but what will I say? You’re in grad school studying Global Communication with a specialization in Middle Eastern Studies? We want people to establish a reputation.

Gov 2.0 56

Gov 2.0 Social Media Web 2.0 Wiki 56

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 5, 2010

40 Key Elements to Getting Started in Social Media (Louis Gray): Mike Fruchter writes an awesome blog post on Louis Gray’s blog about how to get involved in social media, from branding to blogging to Twitter to community. It’s good to know that there are ways to bring Facebook community closer together. Think again!

Marketing 265

Marketing SEO Journal Engineering 265

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 12, 2010

I needed to differentiate Digg from social media because they actually are part of a distinctive community (and as you know, I’m very passionate about Digg so it really did deserve its own category). I get fixated on one community and ditch the last, yet I still have my profiles on them and they usually get outdated within minutes.

MySpace 114

MySpace LinkedIn Facebook Social Networking 114

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FEBRUARY 22, 2008

Anyone can visit online meeting places like Digg and Reddit and promote the voices and opinions of others, and anyone can mobilize a group of people around a common cause on Facebook or elsewhere. Not just being talked about but be an active voice in the community. In a sense, they can become part of the community.

Social Media 105

Social Media Marketing Digg MySpace 105

Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

For example, in Wikipedia, “knowledge&# is constructed by negotiating compromises among various points of view. reflects a shift in leading-edge applications on the World Wide Web, a shift from the presentation of material by website providers to the active co-construction of resources by communities of contributors. tools (e.g.,

Web 2.0 182

Web 2.0 Review Wikipedia Construction 182

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FEBRUARY 1, 2008

As a side point, Google is a bigger beast and it has tens or hundreds of staff members visiting forums and moderating groups to ensure that the user experience is a good one. It’s their community of choice and that’s fine. I don’t know yet if it changes my feelings at all.

Digg 100

Digg Social Media Upcoming Ustream 100

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 28, 2010

Blogging helps you build community (especially via comments), establish thought leadership, bring links to your website (both internally, perhaps to products or to other articles on your blog, and externally, when people like what you say and opt to link to you), and get you some nice traffic. Give to your community. Customer Service.

Social Media 278

Social Media Strategy Yahoo Communities 278

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 5, 2010

Don’t use a Facebook Group. Don’t shy away from giving your community the information needed to find you elsewhere both online and offline. Let it be posted on every social platform of choice and then watch as it seeds through other communities (which is likely to happen and shows that your marketing is viral).

Facebook 279

Facebook How To Marketing URL 279

Viper Chill

MAY 3, 2010

Although I don’t have any goals for the size of the community here, I still think it is an interesting metric to monitor. Here in Bloomington, Illinois you rank #2 for viral marketing…behind only a wikipedia entry. Reply Bex says: May 3, 2010 at 6:51 pm Thanks for subscribing Jean. That’s a MAJOR achievment!

Report 68

Report Marketing Web 2.0 Blogosphere 68

Convince & Convert

AUGUST 10, 2010

Cheers, Sheldon, community manager for Sysomos [link] 40deuce I agree that influence mining will definitely be a huge thing in the next year or so. Netslangcafe The attention era is supposed to be the main evolution of the Information Era ( according to wikipedia ). You're building your reputation through your customers.

Social CRM 134

Social CRM Influencer Klout Social Media 134

Convince & Convert

JULY 21, 2010

How to avoid a social-media lawsuit [link] [link] Evans Media Group RT @jaybaer Protecting Yourself From Social Media Lawsuits [link] [link] Dea Surjadi Good points RT @Ad_Chickadee: How to avoid a social-media lawsuit [link] [link] Joseph Manna Not necessarily; fair use still applies. Wikipedia has a good explanation of it ( [link] ).

Social Media 155

Social Media Policies Consultant Social CRM 155

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 8, 2008

These scenarios come to fruition in spontaneous communities, on social networks, and other self-service tools – all thanks to the availability of low cost technology and access to the world wide web. You can also not use the tools correctly or not behave appropriately within communities around the tools and market poorly.

Social Media 163

Social Media Marketing Consultant Communities 163

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JUNE 30, 2008

After using both Plurk and Twitter pretty heavily, I’ve come to the conclusion that Plurk is best at its features for community-building, whereas Twitter succeeds more with its interface that bolsters information-sharing. After all, the full disclosure is that I am the community and marketing director of Mashable. Great post!

Twitter 199

Twitter Microblogging MySpace Comparison 199

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 5, 2009

What are the most popular sites in these age groups? Ignore the Social Media Scoreboard (Instigator Blog): Ben Yoskovitz says that you need to leverage friendships to build brand, reputation, trust, and to discover new opportunities. What are Social Media Marketing and Social Media Optimization?

Marketing 144

Marketing StumbleUpon SEO Reputation 144

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 21, 2008

By May 18 , the MetaFilter community dared to ask the same, very unpopular questions Becky and some of her friends had been asking for months. This happened last week on the tightly knit community on Plurk, which has a unique and friendly atmosphere as Tamar described a few weeks ago. Be observant! Did your room just light up?

Social Media 104

Social Media StumbleUpon Communities MySpace 104

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 12, 2010

There were other typical social networks in this grouping as well, including Flickr, FriendFeed, Kirtsy, Mixx, Plurk, StumbleUpon, Tip’d, and Twitter. So many people use LinkedIn this way; I’d be surprised if less than 90% of LinkedIn’s community didn’t. I’d be honored to have you join me. It’s not.

Facebook 233

Facebook LinkedIn Social Networking Microblogging 233

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 26, 2010

But with all other social networks, there are rules of engagement that are determined by the community. More information and tips for usage can be read in The New Community Rules: Marketing on the Social Web. Until then, there will be users who take but can’t give back to the community. Still stuck? Did I miss anything?

StumbleUpon 181

StumbleUpon Digg Social Networking Review 181

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FEBRUARY 16, 2010

With Twitter being so incredibly large and vast, there are different types of mini-communities. It’s not enough to be insular and focus on your groups of friends. At business networking events, try to get to know people outside your group of trusted colleagues. I created an additional account for people in that group.

Twitter 205

Twitter Sports Microblogging HootSuite 205

Buffer Social

AUGUST 1, 2016

— we’ve had a blast getting to join with our community every week for the past two years in #bufferchat. . What began as a curious community experiment has grown into a pillar of our community efforts. Community has been a driving force within Buffer from the start. Our current #bufferchat workflow.

Twitter 40

Twitter How To Storify Communities 40

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 10, 2010

Over the next few months, I received multiple invites to various groups on Facebook and messages imploring me to participate in activities in which I had no interest. Users submit timely news articles to Sphinn, and the community votes up the best stories to appear on the front page. I highly recommend you follow his stuff.

Marketing 240

Marketing How To SEO Training 240

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 19, 2008

I became a big fan of playing games (bingo especially) at a little hub on AOL called RabbitJack’s Casino , which was considered a unique community within the AOL borders with a close-knit group of people from all walks of life. As the wikipedia article suggests, there are still people waiting for October 1.

MySpace 101

MySpace Yahoo Ustream StumbleUpon 101