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The Serious Goings-On Behind The Social Networking Scene

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It wasn’t a link to a “Join me at New Social Group.” The Serious Goings-On Behind The Social Networking Scene. We share each other’s links, support and tease each other on Twitter, and share brief direct message dialogues every now and again (no, not about you. So what was the email about?

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Uncovering The Remarkable In Your Social Networks

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And that made me think some more: what is the hidden remarkability in the lives of those we encounter every day – or, at least, every few days – in social media? So I asked the question: “What remarkable thing have you done that your social networks do NOT know about you?&#. We think we know them.

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Is “Social Media” Really Worth It? Musings Following a Facebook Hack

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As much in terror as I was – and I was – I had the wherewithal to get the Arena comms/social media team together via text/phone. Heavens bless them, they jumped into action before 8 am ET that morning, and we spent the next several hours on group text/phone calls trying to retrieve the page, cancel credit cards, etc.

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5 Simple Ways Small Businesses Can Ace Social Listening in 2019

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Identify Relevant Groups, Communities. Groups and communities enhance the feeling of community , which is core to social media. People form social media groups and communities to discuss matters they care about. Using our example above, there are lots of groups advocating green living on different social networks.

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Why Buffer, HootSuite and Post Planner are the Holy Trinity of Managing Social Media

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It’s a terrific way to post to a number of social networks, schedule posts and listen in on what’s going on, either by creating dedicated searches or creating streams of Twitter lists you’ve set up. You can give posting rights to a team for group posting, which is terrific! HootSuite. Post Planner.

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What Compels People to Share Your Content?

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Have you ever wondered what compels people to share content on their social networks? Two social accounts cross in the night , and a re-tweet or Like is born – why is that? Facebook insists it has the answer: write better content. That distress probably keeps users risk-averse when it comes to provocative content.

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Become the Pied Piper of Community Building

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According to Computerworld the first “online community” came about in 1973 when Talkomatic for the PLATO time-sharing system released a text-based group chat. Bulletin Board Systems (BBSs), finally leading us to modern day social networks. From there it evolved into email discussion lists (who remembers LISTSERV?),