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What A Dog’s Cancer Taught Me About Community

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I tell you all this not to make excuses for being away, but because part of being in a community means we share what’s going on. It’s an acknowledgement of the ties social networks help us build, if we show our humanity and use them for what they truly are – ways to bridge the gaps between us… to really build, and be a part of, a community.

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#measurePR Recap (Feb 2016): Measuring Community

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Seeing as how February, as a month, is all about love, I wanted to focus this month’s #measurePR chat on the folks who give us the most love in our businesses: our community. On how online community impacts PR and vice versa: A3: An engaged community can be a fantastic PR resource, esp in times of disaster.

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Monday Roundup: Celebrating Your Community

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.” Talk about a religious celebration that’s gone mainstream… and one that engenders a feeling of community among those who celebrate the day. How to Build Creativity and Self-Expression with Your Community. Why: “Attention is an opportunity to give value and meet commitments to customers and community alike.

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16 Random Facts My Community Taught Me

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Founder and publisher of Waxing UnLyrical, Shonali Burke is President & CEO of Shonali Burke Consulting, Inc. area, she loves helping for- and non-profit clients, both small and large, turn corporate codswallop into community cool™. Twitter Facebook Google+ LinkedIn 16 Random Facts My Community Taught Me.

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Tips on Measuring Community [April #measurePR Recap]

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At the heart of social PR lies community. So that’s what we focused on for the April #measurePR Twitter chat; how to measure community, how to tell when community-building initiatives are working (and when they’re not), and how community-focused metrics might change over time. Experts in measuring community.

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Bringing Open Community To Public Relations

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Because if there’s one thing I believe takes public relations from good to great, it’s when your audiences start becoming your community through the relationships you develop with them. But I was curious to see how Maddie and Lindy perceived not just Open Community , but its juxtaposition with public relations.

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Content Marketing: Without Community, It’s Only Half the Equation

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You may have created great content, and you may have a good distribution plan, but shares and engagement are unlikely to come unless you have also focused on community building. Commenting on blogs published by the kinds of people you hope will come over and comment on your blog. And that, my friends, is the difference. In a nutshell.