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Social Media Today
DECEMBER 2, 2022
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Tips and Best Practices for Enhancing Your Social Media Community
Ignite Social Media
DECEMBER 10, 2020
2020 has created many challenges for the average person, but it may have created even more challenges for social media community managers across the nation. The Importance of Community Management. 5 Tips for Enhancing Your Social Community. Ok, not EVERY single comment.
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How Can Brands Manage Facebook Comment Overload
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Tweet Recent comment count on Facebook brand pages is going up, just proving that now, people accept social media as an effective method of communicating with their brand and entering a conversation. These comments can obviously be both positive and negative and can suddenly spring up in quantities if your update has a viral potential. Often in these situations, a community manager will find herself in a fix, unable to answer and respond to all of them.
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YouTube comments: A complete guide
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4 Tips for Handling Negative Comments in Social Media
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Here are four tips to always keep in mind when addressing negative comments from your customers. So, as a Community Manager , comments can feel like a personal attack. Always remember you’re representing the brand and not to let comments affect your personal feelings or cause you to react from a personal level. If a comment upsets you, step away from it for a few minutes, go vent to a trusted coworker, and then go back and respond.
Managing Negative Comments in Social Media
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If you work as a social media manager or online community manager you see these all the time … negative comments. Here are 6 more tips on how to manage negative comments: Listen to what is being said. Don’t let negative comments linger. The longer a negative comment goes without a response, the more credibility the comment acquires. If the comment is from a turd, your community will see them for what they are, and they will lose their credibility.
Moderating Comments and Managing Online Communities
Akamai Marketing
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Six Examples of Great Community Management
Ignite Social Media
OCTOBER 30, 2018
There’s a lot that goes into community management. A community manager acts as the link between a brand and its customers- helping to build, grow, and manage their online communities. Community managers (CMs) are, in many cases, the voice of the brand. They are immersed in the community and they’re the people you communicate with when you reach out to a brand. We’ve compiled some examples of great community management to recognize some of their hard work!
Here’s Why Brands Are Taking Over Your Instagram Comments
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Have you spotted Instagram comments from huge brands or celebrities popping up in your feed as you scroll through the latest posts? . It used to be that brands wanted to receive Instagram comments from followers to grow their account. using witty comments to optimize their exposure on Instagram and gain more followers! . Here’s how you can use Instagram comments to fuel your growth: Why Instagram Comments Are More Important Than Ever If You Want More Followers.
Moderating Comments and Managing Online Communities
Akamai Marketing
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Tweet Much has been writing over the years about how to manage comments in a blog or online community. And as someone who has a community, I can tell you from personal experience that its deeply troubling to stare down the lowest common denominator. But in my view there are several approaches to community moderation. Open Door Policy: The most liberal of comment moderation policies. All comments are auto-approved without any technical or human moderation.
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Monday Roundup: Building Your Business Community
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Having a strong community is one of the most important aspects of business. This week’s roundup includes seven posts that are good reads on both maintaining as well as building your business community. How To Be A Better Facebook Community Manager. So You Think You Want to be a Community Manager? Why: An inside view on what community management actually entails. Community Consultation – Offline & Online. Please let us know in the comments below.
Using Livestreaming to Grow Your Brand, Community, & Influence
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New! Schedule a First Comment on Instagram with Later
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FEBRUARY 19, 2020
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Building a New Kind of Cruise Community
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How to Create Facebook House Rules or Community Guidelines
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A Facebook Page is an excellent venue for community building among brand advocates and customers (or potential customers) seeking more information, discounts, insight or customer assistance. Every Facebook Page is a potential target for the irrational, irate person that ‘Likes’ the Facebook Page only to leave a barrage of negative comments on the Page. Does your Facebook Page have Rules or is it a free-for-all?
Real and Spam Blog Comments
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Heed the advice of social media consultants and promote your blog by commenting on other blogs. Be active in their blog communities, link to their blog posts, and submit guest post ideas. Comments that tell a story help your brand and help me understand what you’re trying to convey. Commenting that anyone or her mother could write has zero value and is universally known as spam. Meet spam comments on my blog. Meet real comments on my blog.
Improve an Entire Community through Fundraising
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Community fundraising goes beyond raising funds for a specific cause. It provides an opportunity to improve an entire community through the efforts of the fundraiser. Here’s one example of an organization that’s clearly been successful through their community fundraising efforts. Leading by example, Boys to Men helps the whole San Diego community through its singular cause. “We Community, which we are going away from, is so important to our program.
Ask Buffer: Should I Reply to Every Social Media Comment?
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But I’m starting to get a lot of comments and customer questions, and I’m finding it hard to reply to every single one. That said, you don’t have to reinvent the wheel with every comment. Now, to answer your specific questions: Do I Have to Respond to Every Comment?
Are Blog Comments Dead? | Justin Levy
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Justin Levy Marketing and Social Media Home About Archives Contact Disclosures Newsletter Speaking Are Blog Comments Dead? Written on July 30, 2010 by Justin Levy in blog , community , facebook , interactions , social media , twitter 23 Comments - Leave a comment! As engagement and sharing on Twitter, Facebook and other social tools continues to increase, many bloggers are noticing a sharp decrease in comments on their blogs. Thomas I like comments.
More Community Management Resources
SocialFish
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Just a quick follow-up to Maggie’s post on Community Management 101. Rachel Happe of the Community Roundtable pointed us to her slide deck on “Community Management Fundamentals&# in the comments; I wanted to make sure everyone sees it. And by coincidence, there’s a great post by Paul Schneider this week on associationTECH about 5 Common Pitfalls to Avoid When Launching an Online Community which is worth reading in relation to these other resources.
How to Build Community Without the Metaverse
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YouTube Comments
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How many sensible and well-reasoned comment threads have you seen on YouTube? I wonder how many individuals, brands or companies are spending efforts on keeping up with YouTube comments, and if they do, how worthwhile those conversations are? strategy communities Video social mediaGo ahead and think about it. I'll wait. Have your answer? Me too. The number you're looking for is ZERO.
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As a social media manager, you likely have access to great community insights that other members of your organization do not. Reading incoming messages in the form of comments, replies and private messages can help you learn about the positives and negatives of your product or business, and reporting on those insights are a great way to provide value for your company. The post Community Insights Informing Product Decisions appeared first on Ignite Social Media Agency.
Open Community on Facebook!
SocialFish
NOVEMBER 7, 2010
We would love it if you would check out our Facebook page for Open Community … and we would love it even more if you would post a photo of the book when it arrives on your doorstep – thanks to Steve Briggs, Dave Sabol and Garry Polmateer for posting your photos already! If you have an open-ended question, or any comment at all, don’t hesitate to post it here. Tags: Open Community facebook
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Laurel Papworth
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How do you respond to a negative comment in an online community, on Facebook? Shut the Page down, ban the commenter, suck up to them? Well, every company does it differently, but let’s look at corporate vs personal voice when dealing with negative comments. Ignore the negative social media commenter. Unless they go off and create an anti-community such as Dell Hell, alert the Press and continue to pursue their point of view.
Facebook Commenting Platform: Pros and Cons For Businesses
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Open Community: Talkers Toolkit
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