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Become the Pied Piper of Community Building

Waxing UnLyrical

Communities have been around for centuries, however online communities have only been around for a few decades. 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. Let’s get right to it, how to build your brand’s community.

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5 Marketing Rules to Follow in 2024 From Top-Tier Brands

Convince & Convert

Invigorate your strategy with insights from marketers at TikTok, Glossier, Zillow, lululemon, and more Convince & Convert started the Social Pros Podcast back in 2012 as a way to get to know the “real people doing real things” in social media. Iconic beauty brand Glossier swears by this approach, and it has served them well.

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2012 in Recap: The Year of Visual Social Media

Mindjumpers

But 2012 was also characterised by being the year when visual content came into focus, as Sara predicted. The large cover image displayed at the top of your Timeline made it possible to showcase brand identity visually and creatively. Facebook Timeline. Facebook & Instagram: success and turbulences.

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Create Brand Value Through Local Community Management

Mindjumpers

The following post is part of the Mindjumpers Network series and written by our Community Manager, Sara Hansson. For international brands and companies, it can be a challenge to control and maintain product perception worldwide. Talk to your fans in their language.

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Ottawa’s Twitter top 20 for 2012

Sherrilynne Starkie

All the profiles included are actually real people, not brands or companies. Ottawa's top tweeters for 2012. But they were very time consumer to compile and the grading tools used kept changing algorithms and or other aspects of their service making the lists difficult to standardize. This list was compiled using Twitter Grader.

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2012 Is The Year of Visual Communication

Mindjumpers

Now, more than ever before, technology has made it easier to take part in visual storytelling with online communities. The benefits of using visual communication are many. Here are three key reasons why brands should put more effort into producing and distributing visual content as a part of their social media marketing tactics.

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Why Good Community Management Equals Great Business Development

Convince & Convert

Image via BigStockPhoto The last time I wrote for Jay was way back in 2012 when I was still a community manager for MBA@UNC, the online MBA program at UNC – Chapel Hill (Go Heels!). While there’s been no shortage of articles describing community managers as. Read the whole entry. »