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7 Strategies for Growing Community on Your Blog

ProBlogger

The post 7 Strategies for Growing Community on Your Blog appeared first on ProBlogger. Recently on ProBlogger we’ve been looking at the topic of building community on a blog. We started by identifying 9 benefits and 3 costs of community on a blog and then looked at 5 stages of building community on a blog.

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Dark Social in 2023: Here’s Why (and How) You Should Track It

Hootsuite

The term “dark social” was invented in 2012 by Alexis Madrigal, former editor of The Atlantic. People join private Facebook Groups or forums to meet and talk with other like-minded people. Create your own dark social community Brand-run private communities take time and effort to manage but when done right, can provide huge ROI.

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Five Takeaways from the 2012 State of Community Management Report

Jeff Esposito

One of the more interesting, but challenging, aspects of my job is community management. Effective managers do not view their community as tied to a specific technology or network, but rather as a group of users who share principles and interests. Evolution – communities are not built overnight.

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Social Media Course – $176 – 13 June 2012 Sydney with @InforumGroup

Laurel Papworth

Social Media Training June 2012. Wednesday 13 June 2012, 2pm-6pm. Do you work in sales, marketing or communications? If you attended our Social Media Forum in Sydney, you will remember Laurel was one of our panelists. Facebook, Twitter, blogs will be covered (we set up a blog live) as well as how to build audiences.

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7 Strategies for Growing Community on Your Blog

ProBlogger

The post 7 Strategies for Growing Community on Your Blog appeared first on ProBlogger. Recently on ProBlogger we’ve been looking at the topic of building community on a blog. We started by identifying 9 benefits and 3 costs of community on a blog and then looked at 5 stages of building community on a blog.

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4 Social Media Marketing Events You Won’t Want to Miss

Convince & Convert

Last year, I shared the importance of taking conversations offline to grow your business and suggested some great events to help make that happen in 2012. 2012 keynote speaker and CEO of Arment Dietrich Gini Dietrich announced during her presentation last year that Ohio Growth Summit was the best conference she had ever attended.

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Finding Readers Week: Corinne Talks Commenting, Engagement, and Are Forums Right For Your Blog?

ProBlogger

Corinne runs the successful blog skinnedcartree.com, and consistently gets genuine engagement from her readers and community across the board. Corinne introduced forums at the beginning of the year and has seen that engagement increase sharply. I only started blogging late December 2012.

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