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Monday Roundup: Collaboration

Waxing UnLyrical

So this week’s roundup focuses on how collaboration can play a major role in successful campaigns and projects. Collaboration Tools for Social Media Teams: You Don’t Have to Do It All Alone. 10 Slack Hacks to Boost Team Collaboration. Why: Slack is just one of the tools I personally use for collaboration. In this post, Heather Whaling shares some of her “favorite ‘Slack hacks’ to boost collaboration.”

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How to Take a Collaborative Approach to Managing Social Accounts Across Higher Ed Departments

Social Media Strategies Summit

They discussed various issues related to collaboration, including how to ensure cohesive branding, maintain effective communication, break down silos, and share best practices with university social media managers. Using Creative & Organizational Tools to Facilitate Collaboration.

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Why Marketers Must Collaborate to Succeed

Convince & Convert

There are reasons that we should be collaborating with other like-minded people in our industry—namely, because it helps you both. In order to build relationships with people, and possibly collaborative projects in the future, always be useful in their business. Building a Collaboration Strategy. This is where collaboration is born. This business is all about collaboration and how two minds can get things done better than one.

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Instagram Live Collaborations: Tips and Examples to Inspire You

agora pulse

Consider Instagram Live collaborations. Check out these how-to tips and examples of Instagram Live collaborations. . But is that the same for Instagram live video collaborations? There are many advantages to an Instagram live collaboration. Strengthen community.

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How brands can collaborate with Black creators in 2023

Sprout Social

They have also focused on strengthening their relationship with the Black community by partnering with Black creators and influencers and investing in Black talent to incorporate into their marketing campaigns.

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How to Grow on Instagram with Brand x Brand Collaborations

Later

Brand collaborations on Instagram are quickly becoming one of the most popular ways to grow your following and promote your brand online. Not to be confused with influencer partnerships, brand collaborations see two (or more!) What are the Benefits of Brand x Brand Collaborations? .

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10 Inspiring Examples of Amazing Brand Communities

Social Media Strategies Summit

Building a brand community isn’t about improving vanity metrics like engagement and follower count. According to a survey from Vanilla Forums , 58% of brands say their communities improve customer loyalty. So how has the company managed to build an engaged brand community ?

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Snapchat: An Emerging Platform for Teamwork and Collaboration

Waxing UnLyrical

While Snapchat has been used for brands and other public relations campaigns, it can be used for collaborative and teamwork efforts as well. In fact, I used Snapchat for the first time this semester to not only showcase what I am doing in my classes, but also to document, share, and collaborate with my students and fellow PR professors on projects and assignments. Here are some ideas to consider for how to use Snapchat for collaboration and teamwork feedback: 1.

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Civic Crowdfunding vs Tax – Collaborative Government #Gov2

Laurel Papworth

Collaborative projects eg. No Gov – complete Big Society community activism. Education let’s us down… Warning: This version of social media and online community call to actions is so far to the Right that it becomes Left again. If you are a student or simply interested in academic papers, here’s C ivic Crowdfunding: Participatory Communities, Entrepreneurs and the Political Economy of Place by Rodrigo Davies (2014).

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General Mills Embraces Collaborative Storytelling with “Hello, Cereal Lovers” Social Media Community

Convince & Convert

Inspired by the passion and enthusiasm people have for cereal, there’s a new, “Hello Cereal Lovers” co-branded social media community from General Mills that is generating buzz for its creative and collaborative visual storytelling approach. Spanning Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Tumblr, the “Hello, Cereal Lovers” communities focus on General Mills’ cereal varieties, but aren’t opposed to (gasp) occasionally mix in a competitor for the sake of a sweet recipe.

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On collaboration and learning organizations

SocialFish

Albeit with very different language, we talk about similar ideas throughout Open Community. Tags: Open Community Watch this interesting video by Don Tapscott, author of Wikinomics and the new Macrowikinomics – which is on my desk – can’t wait to read it.

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Building a New Kind of Cruise Community

Waxing UnLyrical

Regular WUL readers know that Shonali (a friend and former colleague at Socialmedia.biz ) showcases guest posts about how to build, engage and sustain an online community, among other things. so that others might gain insights for their own community efforts. So our small marketing team is now working to grow our user base and nurture our new community. Know anyone in the travel space we should be collaborating with? Building a New Kind of Cruise Community.

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Collaboration supports successful campaigns

Akamai Marketing

My PR friends will strive to find ways to connect or create community and journalism friends are going to remind me about the need for great content and the digital design camp is going to say it won’t mean anything if it isn’t attractive to the eye. Collaboration is a sign of strength, not weakness and we can make each other and our clients even more successful. In fact, social media in itself IS collaboration. If your a social media pro, do you collaborate much?

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The Future of Community Management

Ignite Social Media

So, when I was asked to share what the future of community management would be like, at first it felt like an impossible task. Perhaps you are feeling the strife of defining “community management”, or trying to figure out where a discipline that touches so many areas of your business fits on your org chart. This is a pivotal time in the discipline of community management, and many brands are asking these very questions.

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Building Your Business With Internal Collaboration

Convince & Convert

right there, “ The Collaborative Organization ,” and also the CEO, Founder, and Grand Poobah of Chess Media Group. It’s the first really comprehensive strategy guide to collaboration in the work place. ” Benefits of Internal Collaboration. Jay: …why do people need to collaborate internally? of message that collaboration makes the world a better place. You can’t just go to them and say, “Hey, collaboration’s great.

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In the Collaborative Economy, Are Local Classifieds in Trouble?

Stay N' Alive

I''m a big fan of my friend Jeremiah Owyang''s principle of " The Collaborative Economy." The Collaborative Economy is a new phase of this principle, where instead of only sharing online, close friends, family, and some times strangers are now using online tools to find ways to share in real life. On the real estate front, you''re seeing more and more people embrace the collaborative economy in favor of renting through services such as AirBNB.

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Collaboration and coordination: Why the best social customer experience starts with teamwork

Sprout Social

The secret to creating a best-in-class customer experience on social starts with the collaboration between a brand’s social team and customer support team. Simplify your message workflows with one collaborative tool. Customer Care Intermediate Team Collaboration Consideration Stage

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How I Built a 15,000-Person Community In Under 2 Years

Buffer Social

When I fostered my first puppy only to quickly find out he had fleas, I felt lost and in need of people I could turn to for trustworthy information, and as a dog mom today, I’m regularly looking for community support. The saying goes that it takes a village to raise a child.

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The Social Media Pitfall of Assumptive Collaboration

Direct Marketing Observations

We were on the fence about creating a community but we (the developer and I figured we could roll it out a week or two later). I was collaborative but assumptive. Last week I was working with a client and we were at a critical juncture of a web development project in which we were discussing the jumping off points for their initial foray in social media. We were doing this by merely adding social elements to the website in the form of a few actions.

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10 Community management tools to engage with your audience

Sprout Social

Community management is just one piece of the puzzle. And, just like with every piece of social media management , your community managers need the proper tools to see success. What is community management? Tweetdeck is a community management platform specifically for Twitter.

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Become a Fearless Online Community Leader

The Realtime Report

Become a Fearless Online Community Leader. Online communities are powerhouses of collaboration that demand fearless leaders to succeed. Yet, with the demand for new communities and the never-ending desire to increase engagement, such best practices for moderation become overlooked. Here is how to become an effective online community leader. Rather than force involvement, thriving communities “build benches” for those on the sidelines.

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8 Best Practices for Collaborative Blog Groups

Kikolani

If you own a blog that has multiple authors, regular contributors, or regular guest bloggers , here are seven ways a private blog group can be utilized for helping strengthen the blog and its community as a whole. Twitter: RT @kikolani Best Practices for Collaborative Blog Groups [link] #blogging. Members can share their own blog posts for social promotion from the group *if* it includes a link to a post on the collaborative blog. Your Thoughts on Collaborative Blog Groups.

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Open Community Case Study – GoPlow

SocialFish

This post is part of our regular series of Open Community case studies, in which intrepid association blogger and freelance writer Deirdre Reid will be digging into associations (and other kinds of organizations when relevant) who are living and breathing their open communities in the ways we describe in the book. Community: GoPlow. GoPlow is the Snow & Ice Management Association ‘s (SIMA) online community. Check them out: GoPlow Community.

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Quick Tips About Building a Social Media Community

agora pulse

Building a social media community? If you’re looking for ways to create a thriving online community, check out the following tips. Agorapulse: What’s one huge mistake that people make when building campaigns for their community?

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The Characteristics of A Community Manager

Mindjumpers

The Community Managers (CM). I’ll try to give you an introduction to the benefits of having a CM – and what you should look for in a Community Manager. The corner stones of community management. Yesterday, we talked about the importance of Local Community Managers, when a global brand wants to establish a social media presence on local country markets. Getting a community involved and engaged needs a lot of planning.

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Susan Sarfati Talks Open Community

SocialFish

This post kicks off a series of executive interviews we’re doing about the concepts in our book, Open Community. Susan is someone we greatly admire, and we were thrilled to get the chance to bring you some of her thoughts on Open Community. We started with this question: How do you think the concepts in Open Community will shape associations in the future? Open community empowers a much larger group of people. Collaboration and social responsibility.

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$100 Off First-Ever Master Class on Community Management Best Practices

Ignite Social Media

For the first time ever, Ignite Social Media is offering a detailed, 3-hour Master Class on Community Management Best Practices for 2016. As the job of community manager evolves (yet again), keeping up is increasingly challenging. We’ll cover: The evolution of the Community Manager. Methods for collaborating with your larger team. Reactive community management. Proactive community building.

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If You Want a Culture of Collaboration, You Need to Accept the LOLCats Too

Social Media Strategery

Before wikis were used by the Intelligence Community to develop reports on IEDs , people were creating user badges to show off their favorite NFL teams. If you want to create a vibrant culture of collaboration, you need to be OK with pictures of LOLCats, posts about the NFL playoffs, arguments about Apple and Android, and criticism of company policies. Accept and embrace this fact now and your communities have a much better chance at succeeding.

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How to Grow Your B2B Facebook Community

Waxing UnLyrical

But like any other marketing strategy, growing your B2B Facebook community simply requires an investment of time and genuine engagement. Below I’ll highlight a couple of simple and effective methods that’ll help grow a B2B Facebook community through engaging content curation. These should be “thought leaders” or other people with large Facebook communities that appeal to your company personality and image.

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A Community of Practice Is More Than a Website

Social Media Strategery

A community of practice (CoP) is, according to cognitive anthropologists Jean Lave and Etienne Wenger , a group of people who share an interest, a craft, and/or a profession. 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. Sounds like we might already be members of dozens of communities of practice – at work, at church, at school, etc.

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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. We loved Garry’s idea for this two-parter and we welcome any guest post ideas from any of our readers who are interested in digging into Open Community from whatever angle you choose.

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Bringing Open Community To Public Relations

Waxing UnLyrical

Waxing UnLyrical personal, possibly poetic, musings on public relations, media, communication, and everything in between About Shonali Bringing Open Community To Public Relations November 22nd, 2010 Tweet Color me thrilled When Maddie Grant and Lindy Dreyer asked me to participate in a virtual book tour to explore concepts from Open Community (they call it “a little book of big ideas for associations navigating the social web&# ), I was thrilled.

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How I Got My Job As Director Of Social Media – Step 1: Build Experience Then Blog, Tweet, Collaborate!

SocMed Sean

First Establish Your Area Of Expertise In Communities Contrary to the popular belief of some, social media isn’t really about tweeting, posting, or marketing. My collaboration with these team members expanded my areas of expertise and helped me expand my understanding of how to bring people together using technology as easily as possible.

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Collaborating and Investing in Green Innovations | Justin Levy

Justin Levy

Justin Levy Marketing and Social Media Home About Archives Contact Disclosures Newsletter Speaking Collaborating and Investing in Green Innovations Written on April 20, 2010 by Justin Levy in environmental , innovation 11 Comments - Leave a comment! While you could probably rattle off a list of some immediate actions you could take within your office to go more green, there are more companies coming together to collaborate on other effective green innovations.

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Social Media Case Study: Collaborate with Traditional Media

Bare Feet Studios

Let me introduce you to my client, HCAP – Honolulu Community Action Program, Inc. The post Social Media Case Study: Collaborate with Traditional Media appeared first on Bare Feet Studios. They are among the top 10 largest nonprofits in Hawaii, with a wide range of services being provided across O?ahu. I have been working with them for the past few months as a Social Media Artist-in-Residence. Somewhat surprisingly for an organization of its size, it had managed to.

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Effective collaboration with wikis | DavePress

Buzz Marketing for Technology

‹ links for 2008-07-07 • links for 2008-07-08 › Effective collaboration with wikis. own blog ) for some advice how how wikis can be used to throw some rough notes up and invite people to collaborate and share knowledge and experience to develop them into more coherent documents. Much of this stuff is standard across any kind of online community, and I don’t claim to be very original in any of this. About. Projects. Resources. Services. Contact Me.

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Press release: B2B Marketing launch Propolis online community for marketers

Socialmedia.biz

[ 2 February 2021 ] B2B Marketing , a trusted advisor to the global B2B marketing community, have launched Propolis , an online community aimed at boosting marketing performance and sharing of expertise. The community offers 4 tiers of membership, tied to the level of access to content.

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IFundWomen's Guide to Cultivating an Inclusive and Engaged Digital Community

Buffer Social

Their strength is in their community. They’ve identified a powerful marketing channel to help these women bring their visions to life: digital community. I manage our digital communities through social media strategy, Slack engagement, and e-mail marketing.

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Relationship Advice: Your Nonprofit Organization and Building Community Organization Partnerships

Waxing UnLyrical

To encourage social responsibility, create a culture of giving back to the larger community. This puts the efforts directly in your employees’ hands by having them organizing the larger group, suggesting collaborative efforts and keeping everyone organized and upholding the mission of your company. Encourage human resources to create policy for volunteering that will not harm employees’ performance reviews when they take time off to give back to the community.

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What does YOUR Open Community look like?

SocialFish

Forgive us for what’s sure to be a big promo push to spread the word about our little book, Open Community , which is about to come out in less than two weeks. In the book, we define the concept of Open Community and dig into five elements that we believe are crucial to understand in order to successfully build relationships and build community online in the digital age. The book covers social media concepts that can make or break your community.

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10 Community Manager Responsibilities that Don't Involve Twitter.

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Social Media Consultant and Tech Geek at Heart Home About Press Consulting Contact Sitemap Home > Marketing , Social Media > 10 Community Manager Responsibilities that Don’t Involve Twitter and Facebook 10 Community Manager Responsibilities that Don’t Involve Twitter and Facebook by Tamar Weinberg on March 17, 2010 Share This is a guest post by Itamar Kestenbaum. Every time I tell someone I’m a Community Manager , I get a varied response. A community participates.

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237: How Collaborations Can Accelerate Your Blog’s Growth

ProBlogger

How to Use Collaborations to Grow Your Blog. So today I want to share a principle that has helped me keep a lot of balls in the air, and scale my business beyond what I ever thought I could manage– collaborations. And this podcast is all about how you can make your blogging a more collaborative experience. Links and Resources for How to Accelerate the Growth of Your Blog with Collaborations: Further Listening. Examples of Collaborative Content.

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7 Skill Sets for Nurturing Open Community

Convince & Convert

Tweet Guest post as part of the virtual book tour by Maddie Grant and Lindy Dreyer to explore concepts from their new book Open Community : a little book of big ideas for associations navigating the social web. We come from the association industry and for many of us “membership” people, community is old hat. And yet, for some reason (actually a lot of reasons) what we know about community isn’t always translating well to building community online. Collaboration.