Waxing UnLyrical

MAY 29, 2015

When brainstorming guests for the May #measurePR Twitter chat, I instantly thought of Maddie Grant and Richard Sheridan. 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.

Lurker 100

Lurker Consultant Metrics Journal 100

Jason Yormark

JULY 22, 2009

With a little time, research and the right plan, you can have yourself a platform to build your community with. I won’t dive into the tactics of how to use these tools in this post, but below I reference the ways any person or business can build a community on a limited budget. Social Network Platforms 1.

Communities 190

Communities Tools Strategy Message Boards 190

SocialFish

OCTOBER 1, 2010

Four reasons your Executive Director should be on Twitter (John Haydon). Offline-to-Online-to-Offline: Lessons Learned in Building a Custom Community Platform (Frogloop). Twitter Chats for Association Professionals (SmartBlog Insights). Do you need a social-media succession plan? SmartBlog on Social Media). Dan Zarrella).

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Analysis Social CRM Construction Foursquare 165

SocialFish

JANUARY 11, 2011

Everything you ever needed to get started with Twitter. Community platforms do not equal community. Semantics: Social Media Policy, or Guidelines? Hiring for Social Media: Talkers and Listeners. Mobile apps are a waste of time for associations. 10 Reasons to Have a Social Media Response Triage Flowchart.

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Postrank Handbook Case Study Press Release 170

Harp Interactive

OCTOBER 9, 2009

Build community platforms around real communities of shared interest. Check out Twitter as a way to show a company’s personality. Search Summize.com for as much data as you can find in Twitter on your product, your competitors, your space. Consider the value of hiring a community manager.

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Social Media Press Release Marketing Widget 232

Koka Sexton

DECEMBER 5, 2008

Koka Sexton dot Com Home About Koka Contact Twitter FULL RSS Epic News Alerts On Twitter In my continuing saga to understand everything about Twitter , I wanted to see how mainstream news is contributing. Twitter is a communication tool, so there is no surprise that mainstream media wants to capitalize on the service.

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Proactive Report

JUNE 5, 2011

According to a Hypatia Research report, “Benchmarking Social Community Platform Investments & ROI,&# only 40% of companies measure social media performance on a quarterly or annual basis, while almost 13% or the organizations surveyed do not measure ROI from social media at all, and another 18% said they do so only on an ad hoc basis.

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ROI Social Media Metrics Survey 82

Social Media Strategery

AUGUST 26, 2010

platform haven’t even created profiles of themselves. For you developers, what’s preventing you from getting this involved in the communities/platforms that you’re responsible for creating? Luke [link] lukefretwell (Luke Fretwell) Twitter Comment Commented.

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Social Media Strategery

MARCH 8, 2011

When someone in the communications industry refers to a “ community manager ,&# they are usually referring to someone that can manage the online relationships for a particular brand, using tools like Facebook, Twitter, and blogs. Guess who gets the write the blog post criticizing the new expense reporting policy?

Communities 137

Communities Wiki Yammer Forums 137

Convince & Convert

DECEMBER 7, 2010

Your Open Community is your people who are bonded by what your organization represents and care enough to talk to each other (hopefully about you!) You Don’t Have to Own A Community to Build Community. You’ll need some search-engine ninjas, RSS-reader Jedi masters, and Twitter superheros. Content curation.

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Skills Communities Collaboration Organization 124

Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 8, 2012

I have scheduled blog feeds on Twitter, but I don’t schedule tweets, because you can’t have a conversation. You can’t schedule community. Jay: I like that quote, “You can’t schedule community.” So many times now, it seems that Facebook in particular has become the de facto community platform.

Communities 121

Communities Activities Conference Conversation 121

Koka Sexton

DECEMBER 5, 2008

Koka Sexton dot Com Home About Koka Contact Twitter FULL RSS Epic News Alerts On Twitter In my continuing saga to understand everything about Twitter , I wanted to see how mainstream news is contributing. Twitter is a communication tool, so there is no surprise that mainstream media wants to capitalize on the service.

Foursquare 40

Foursquare News WordPress CoTweet 40

Jeff Esposito

JUNE 3, 2011

Facebook is the hotness that many are using as their community platform to build out oodles of fans (Twitter and LinkedIn are doing this to a lesser extent). Who owns your brand’s social media data? Every company is looking into the social game in one way shape or form nowadays.

Journal 39

Journal Community Platforms Social Media Data 39

Buzz Marketing for Technology

JULY 7, 2008

4) None of the following are community platforms: Wikis, Blogs or Forums. These are not platforms…these are implementations on top of platforms. A wiki may have all these things, but that does not a platform make. © 2008 Community Group Therapy. I wish that could be enough said. advertising.

Communities 117

Communities Groups Groups Social Media 117

Buffer Social

JULY 27, 2023

High-quality content, regardless of platform, audience, or format, should inspire two things in your audience: a feeling (enlightenment, happiness) and an action (commenting to know more, bookmarking for a future date). If it’s entertaining, use sharp editing and the available features on your chosen social media platform.

Content 76

Content How To Guidelines Research 76

Mindjumpers

AUGUST 11, 2010

Next to the use of social network sites you can also use proprietary community platforms. Micro-blogs, of which Twitter is the most famous, add an enormous dimension to this. They do this in any case on other platforms and peer review sites. Demonstrate your know-how for example and share valuable content and teasers.

Marketing 171

Marketing Module Forums Social Networking 171

Convince & Convert

AUGUST 3, 2010

The increasing use of Facebook as an e-commerce platform (see excellent, elegant solutions from ShopTab ), demonstrate that Facebook can make you money, not just friends. link] Justin Remember blogs such as thing one can still come to the readers (RSS, Twitter…) There's a great deal of social web functionality built right in.

Social Media 167

Social Media Facebook Marketing Consultant 167

Convince & Convert

AUGUST 3, 2010

The increasing use of Facebook as an e-commerce platform (see excellent, elegant solutions from ShopTab ), demonstrate that Facebook can make you money, not just friends. link] Justin Remember blogs such as thing one can still come to the readers (RSS, Twitter…) There's a great deal of social web functionality built right in.

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