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Transforming audiences into communities: Offering real value

Audiense

How can you effectively turn a social media audience into a passionate, engaged community? This time, we’re investigating how offering real value - to your customers, your community, and your industry - can help you convert silent social lurkers into engaged customers.

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A Tale of Two Communities Part 1 – Volkswagen

SocialFish

This post is the first in a two-part series where guest blogger Garry Polmateer , former association executive currently working at NimbleUser helping organizations with Salesforce, looks at two online brands through the lens of the concepts in our book, Open Community. First, I’ll say that I am involved in 3 major communities. #1

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A Tale of Two Communities Part II – Salesforce.com

SocialFish

This post is the second in a two-part series where guest blogger Garry Polmateer , former association executive currently working at NimbleUser helping organizations with Salesforce, looks at two online brands through the lens of the concepts in our book, Open Community. Open Community Means Collaborating with a Purpose.

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The Five Reasons Why Most Facebook Brand Pages Aren’t True Communities

Convince & Convert

What are the defining characteristics of a community? To get to this point, it becomes necessary to define what a community is. According to dictionary.com, a community is. According to dictionary.com, a community is. As community managers, it’s our job to manage a brand’s online (and offline) presence.

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What's your social currency?

Akamai Marketing

What I AM suggesting is that you brands and companies give serious consideration to what they have to OFFER the community and what motivates their community to be part of social media at all. What you give your community, otherwise, seriously, why should they care? It might frustrate you to know that LOTS of people are lurkers.

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How Social Media Marketers Use Social Media In Real Life

Ignite Social Media

Someone working on the analytics team could be using social media in a far different way than someone working all day as a community manager. While YouTube is great, my community is with other gamers who have moved on to Twitch.tv Do you focus on communicating with your friends and family or do you prefer to be a social media lurker?

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#measurePR Recap: Measuring the Millennial Workplace

Waxing UnLyrical

Maddie is a culture change consultant and digital strategist who is recognized for her authority on productive workplaces and communities, and co-author of the new book, When Millennials Take Over. shonali you can find lurkers through web analytics and community platform metrics, but also simply by asking once in a while!

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