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The Five Reasons Why Most Facebook Brand Pages Aren’t True Communities

Convince & Convert

What are the defining characteristics of a community? To get to this point, it becomes necessary to define what a community is. According to dictionary.com, a community is. According to dictionary.com, a community is. As community managers, it’s our job to manage a brand’s online (and offline) presence.

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A Tale of Two Communities Part 1 – Volkswagen

SocialFish

This post is the first in a two-part series where guest blogger Garry Polmateer , former association executive currently working at NimbleUser helping organizations with Salesforce, looks at two online brands through the lens of the concepts in our book, Open Community. First, I’ll say that I am involved in 3 major communities.

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Don’t Sell Your Brand’s Soul to the Facebook News Feed Algorithm and Vanity Metrics

Pam Moore

Brand leaders around the globe are freaking out as they read the blog posts, watch the videos and see the tweets fly by from the Facebook fear mongers crying that the end of Facebook as we know it has arrived. Facebook 2018 is all About Engagement. It is true that big changes are coming to Facebook.

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A Tale of Two Communities Part II – Salesforce.com

SocialFish

This post is the second in a two-part series where guest blogger Garry Polmateer , former association executive currently working at NimbleUser helping organizations with Salesforce, looks at two online brands through the lens of the concepts in our book, Open Community. Open Community Means Collaborating with a Purpose.

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What's your social currency?

Akamai Marketing

640 Million on Facebook. Now hear this: No one ever joined Facebook or Twitter so they could follow a brand or a company. Yet, according to HubSpot, brands who connect via the social sphere see a direct impact on sales. What you give your community, otherwise, seriously, why should they care?

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How to Measure Social Media Success for Your Small Business

yMarketingMatters

Community Growth & Sustainability. Community Growth & Sustainability. Community growth is a VERY valuable and important metric because it shows you’re appealing to your audience and staying relevant, especially if they’re not dropping off. Building a community of disinterested, unrelated followers is ultimately useless.

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This weeks #Social Media Topic: Connecting With Consumers Through Social Media

Direct Marketing Observations

So many strategies stop at the tools so you end up with a blog or a Facebook page and the strategist goes home. Inevitably the same marketer or communications person does what they know and starts blasting messages. As a result, the consumers that you were trying to get closer to actually end up further away. Jake McKee 90-9-1.com.

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