Social Media Strategery

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Create Better Content by First Creating a Better Relationship with Your Lawyers

Social Media Strategery

And so on we go, back to our desks to create content that will get approved. How did lawyers gain so much control over what we do and the content we create? You see, their job isn’t to create engaging content. Here are three key takeaways for anyone creating content for their brand: Do your own research.

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Social Media Could Have Transformed Marketing — Instead, It Amplified Its Flaws

Social Media Strategery

In 1999, Rick Levine, Christopher Locke, Doc Searls, and David Weinberger said the Internet would turn markets into conversations, audiences were actual human beings, and companies would come down from their ivory towers to create meaningful relationships. No one talked about social “content.” Social media” became less social.

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Pay to Play: Seven Ways Social Media is Getting More Expensive

Social Media Strategery

Sure, there aren’t usually any hard costs required to set up social media accounts, but someone is still had to create the content, engage in the conversation, monitor and manage those conversations, etc. Content marketing, the creation and distribution of content to attract leads and generate sales, has become a $118.4

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The Many Roles of an Internal Community Manager

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Let’s take a look at the many hats of the internal community manager: Referee – When someone posts a link to a political article and the conversation is starts to devolve into partisan name-calling and vitriol, guess who gets to be the one to steer the conversation back toward professionalism and healthy debate?

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Mr. Popularity and Your Enterprise 2.0 Community

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You see, while these active champions are responsible for seeding a majority of the content, answering questions, posting content, editing pages, and creating topics, they can also skew the content to suit their own agenda and create a chilling effect on opposing viewpoints and topics.

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Klout for Enterprise 2.0 Networks is a Bad Idea

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as a side note, I need one in real-life too – little did I know that my best friend’s reach and influence are really low and I should stop hanging out with him and instead make new friends who can optimize my conversations better). Bringing Klout to the Enterprise?

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A Community of Practice Is More Than a Website

Social Media Strategery

Over the last year or so, the term communities of practice has entered the social media buzzword lexicon along with virtual collaboration, engagement, platforms, and Enterprise 2.0. A CoP is built around conversation. A website is built around content. The success of a website is measured by hits, visits, and referrals.