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YouTube comments: A complete guide

Sprout Social

Businesses can expand their reach and build brand loyalty on the platform—but they need to actively monitor and manage their comments to get the best results. In this post, we’ll explain everything you need to know about moderating and editing your YouTube comments. Click on Community.

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Here’s Why Brands Are Taking Over Your Instagram Comments

Later

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.

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How Government Agencies Can Best Engage Their Communities on Facebook

Social Media Strategies Summit

Your ability to build an online community and share updates with your constituents on Facebook has never been stronger. Page Comment Moderation. Be sure to check with your legal team before turning on any comment moderation tools. Think Mobile First.

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How to Strategically Comment as a Page on Facebook

agora pulse

As a Facebook community manager, you need to know how to comment on a Facebook Page as your Facebook Page. Comment on a Facebook Page from Your Personal Profile. You may want to post and comment as your Facebook Page on your own Page. Here, you can immediately see the account you’re using to comment. That drop-down is post-specific, meaning you can choose to comment for a specific post as yourself without affecting other actions you may take on the Page.

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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. Our team’s goal is to help bring social, mobile and digital to the cruise world – a huge, sprawling, largely analog $38 billion market. Let loose in the comments and thanks for sharing your wisdom!

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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. You can spot a faker from real commenters from a mile away. Just drop us a comment below and let us know how you’re managing social as a B2B.

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‘Tis the Season to Double Down on Social Customer Care (and Protect Your Community Managers)

Convince & Convert

Just when we thought we, as social media strategists and community managers, could rest up from the twists and turns of the last 18 months, the holiday season is upon us. . How will you respond to positive comments? Ensure Your Community Management Team Has The Right Software.

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Why Online Banking on Mobiles Will Soar

Idaconcpts

Several forecasts predict that by 2015, 50% or more of US mobile users will be conducting transactions from their mobile devices (e.g. opening a money market account ) from friends and family or a significant other than from an online community. Subscribe to the comments for this post? Tags: Why Online Banking on Mobiles Will Soar how to market banking to gen y Preferred Banking Method by Generation X Preferred Banking Method by Generation Y

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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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10 ways the Sprout Social mobile app lets you manage social from anywhere

Sprout Social

Unlike some popular social media apps, there’s nothing “light” about the Sprout Social mobile app. With the Sprout Social mobile app, you can bring your calendar with you wherever you go. You can also add new assets to the library on the mobile app.

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themarketingblog@wordpress on Mobile

The Marketing Blog

16 am themarketingblog@wordpress on Mobile Jump to Comments There was a time when mobile version of a website used to be a rarity. The trend appears to have changed now and today’s development-teams have to consider the compatibility of their website/blog with mobile phones. The process of creating a mobile version of your site/blog is pretty easy and takes less than 2 minutes – thanks to a company called MoFuse.

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How Public Safety Agencies Can Best Engage Their Communities on Facebook

Social Media Strategies Summit

Your ability to build an online community and share updates with your constituents on Facebook has never been stronger. Page Comment Moderation. Be sure to check with your legal team before turning on any comment moderation tools. Think Mobile First.

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Blog Comment Spammer Leaves Comment. Forgets to Spin the Content.

Bill Hartzer

When you have a fairly popular blog, you have to deal with comment spammers. Unfortunately, blog comment spamming still works apparently, or at least the blog spammers haven’t learned that it doesn’t work. Nonetheless, I’m still amazed at some of the comments left on the blog. There are always the really bad comments that make no sense at all, and then there are actual comments by real people. Occasionally I get some really funny blog comments.

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What the New Google+ Mobile App Additions Mean to Small Business Owners

Navolutions

With today’s relaunch of the Google+ mobile apps for iPhone and Android, it’s gotten even easier to let customers and clients keep tabs on your day to day, and give them a glimpse of the faces that make your company work. Regular user posts will now show more text content on the feed, attached media just became easier to access, and comment/reshare options are now more prominent. Mobile Community Controls. Google+ just won’t sit still.

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Content Marketing: Without Community, It’s Only Half the Equation

Waxing UnLyrical

You may have created great content, and you may have a good distribution plan, but shares and engagement are unlikely to come unless you have also focused on community building. In addition, dynamic comment systems like Livefyre (which is what we have here on WUL) can integrate shares/comments from Twitter & Facebook. Every time you reply to a tweet sharing a blog post link, for example, Livefyre counts it as a comment.

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What the New Google+ Mobile App Additions Mean to Small Business Owners

Navolutions

With today’s relaunch of the Google+ mobile apps for iPhone and Android, it’s gotten even easier to let customers and clients keep tabs on your day to day, and give them a glimpse of the faces that make your company work. Regular user posts will now show more text content on the feed, attached media just became easier to access, and comment/reshare options are now more prominent. Mobile Community Controls. Google+ just won’t sit still.

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Dear Blog Comment Spammer: I Think Your Comment Spam Tool is Broken

Bill Hartzer

Dear Blog Comment Spammer, who just left a comment on one of my recent blog posts: I think whatever software tool or script that you are using is broken. Whatever the reason, you should have noticed that none of the blog comments that are left on my blog actually allow outgoing links to websites. I am more interested in the conversation, and the comments by real people that are left on my blog posts: and I love engaging and talking with my blog readers.

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Mr. Popularity and Your Enterprise 2.0 Community

Social Media Strategery

Do they involve &# social media,&# “Web 2.0,&# “new media,&# “mobile,&# “enterprise 2.0,&# or “collaboration?&#. Now, take a look at who is posting and commenting on these topics. Are these the same people who also have the most overall comments, posts, edits, and connections? If so, Mr. Popularity may be taking over your community and the worst part of it all? Instead of a community manager, was I becoming a community bully?

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Do Social Media Engagement Metrics Really Matter for Your Business and Why?

Pam Moore

The more you click, the more you comment, the more you engage, the more content that gets seen. I also know from experience with our own platforms as well as in working with brands of all sizes that measuring engagement is not as simple as looking at public engagement such as comments and likes. We have more than 2 million followers in our community across the different social platforms we own.

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Do Social Media Engagement Metrics Really Matter for Your Business and Why?

Pam Moore

The more you click, the more you comment, the more you engage, the more content that gets seen. I also know from experience with our own platforms as well as in working with brands of all sizes that measuring engagement is not as simple as looking at public engagement such as comments and likes. We have more than 2 million followers in our community across the different social platforms we own.

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The Complete Guide to Facebook Groups: How to Create a Group, Build a Community and Increase Your Organic Reach

Buffer Social

Facebook has recently launched Groups for Pages, enabling the 70 million+ Pages on Facebook to create their own unique communities and feeds. Facebook Groups are the place to connect with other like-minded people and are becoming increasingly important for brands and businesses aiming to cultivate a community. And more importantly, how do you build an engaged community in your Facebook Group? How to build an engaged community in your Facebook group.

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Social Media Community Manager's Management

Social Media Network Marketing

Sections To Read Home Main Page Community - Social Media Network Online Who will benefit from this blog? Tuesday, September 7, 2010 Social Media Community Managers Management Monitoring Social Media can be overwhelming. Lots of people chatting, couple of praises, many silent monologues that could lead the Community Manager themselves into utter silence and the rest of the time stressing with negative feedback. How To Tackle Negative Comments While Managing Com.

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Connecting creatively with your community: Introducing Sprout Social’s Dropbox integration

Sprout Social

You can now add Dropbox images and videos to your posts directly from Compose on Sprout’s web and mobile apps—making content creation to delivery a direct path. Sprout’s Smart Inbox helps you see all of your incoming messages and comments across your networks so you can respond to them.

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The Future of Mobile Social Networking

Kikolani

This is a guest post by Zack Hanebrink , an online marketing professional guest posting on behalf of Zerista, provider of services to help you build your own mobile community app for your community. 67% of global users visit member communities and 10% of all time spent on the internet is on social media sites. Mobile. We have already begun to see a shift in the time spent on social networks on a mobile device. 45% post comments on social networks.

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Writing for Mobile Blog Readers

ProBlogger

This guest post is by Brian Milne of the BlogHyped Blog Promotion Community. As far as you know, your blog is mobile friendly. You’ve optimized the design for mobile devices using plugins such as WPtouch. You’ve started serving Google mobile ads. Heck, you even have your own mobile app. Copyright Aaron Amat - Fotolia.com But are you turning away mobile readers with your content? But with mobile users making up between 5% (global) and 8.2% (U.S.)

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5 Easy Ways to Organically Increase Your App Downloads and Lift Rankings

SocMed Sean

Thanks to Robert for sharing his insights on the topic of mobile apps and how to drive their adoption! Mary Meeker, an analyst at Kleiner Perkins Caufield Byers who reviews technology trends every year, once said “ Mobile to overtake fixed Internet access by 2014 ” and looking at current technology trends we can easily say that statement continues to be true and bold. This expectation holds true for mobile apps, as well. They don’t just accept any mobile app.

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5 Ways that Social Media Marketing Software Can Fail You

Pam Moore

Imagine trying to manage six company profiles and only looking at big picture analytics of how many likes or comments your posts get instead of seeing what people say. Do you have an avid, engaged YouTube following and you need to stay on top of those comments? How to Activate Your Social Media Audience and Communities. 5 Ways that Social Media Marketing Software Can Fail You.

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3 Quick and Easy Short Video Tools for Mobile Animation

Socially Sorted

It’s so easy with the right tools, so let’s jump in and take a look at 3 of the short video tools you can use to do this: 3 Quick and Easy Short Video Tools for Mobile Animation. #1 Adobe Spark has become one of the go-to short video tools for many small business owners to create visuals via desktop or mobile. But there’s a cool function on Adobe Spark Post (on mobile) you might not be aware of: it can animate your images on mobile.

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Email and Mobile - what blasts better?

Social Media Network Marketing

Sections To Read Home Main Page Community - Social Media Network Online Who will benefit from this blog? Friday, April 3, 2009 Email and Mobile - what blasts better? The recent understanding goes that email blasts are obsolete - when you compare this with mobile SMS. Naturally mobile is more on the move. BUT how much can you feed into the mobile? And then does email really work inspite of it rating above than mobile on certain parameters.

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VenueSeen: New Monitoring Tool Brings Customers and Brands Closer Together

Mindjumpers

The SoLoMo (Social, Local, Mobile) revolution is taking over, which means that mobile and location-based social networks are becoming increasingly popular, while desktop based social media platforms are constantly working on optimising mobile access. The number’s don’t lie , mobile is the future. Yet, brands are still trying to grasp exactly how to best reach their customers and community on the go.

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Four Good Reasons to Have Your Social Media Channels Covered on Holidays

Ignite Social Media

A comment can easily turn into a purchase, so be sure to pay close attention to the social engagement that’s coming in. According to Social Media Today , Facebook saw that people are 1.39x more likely to make online purchases on mobile devices the 3 days after Christmas than on Black Friday and Cyber Monday combined. That means a team should be on hand right after the holidays to post content, place ads, and engage with incoming comments.

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Best Internet Marketing Posts of 2010

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

As many of you know, I have an annual tradition of giving back to the community on my birthday, which is why this year is no different. Since I can’t read everything written by the Internet Marketing community, I ask my Twitter and Facebook followers for their own recommendations. Local/Mobile Search. Community Management/Engagement. You might want to be a community builder, beehive, or friend.

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Social Media Marketers: Time to Get Personal

Mindjumpers

At Mindjumpers, we spent a lot of time on constantly optimising and developing our own take on community management. In the centre of any good community management approach is of course the identity of the brand. Ted Rubin’s point is that even though your target group is not always willing to listen to your message, they will grow a sense of belonging and loyalty towards your brand over time, if your community management plays by the rules of engagement. Tweet.

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How H&R Block Activated 90,000 Seasonal Tax Pros in Social Media

Convince & Convert

Scott Gulbransen , Director of Social Business Strategy at H&R Block , joins the Social Pros Podcast this week to discuss the structure of social that allowed 90,000 H&R tax professionals to mobilize in unison earlier this year, driving engagement at a local level, and dealing with federal regulations as a financial services company in social media. Facebook’s quarterly earnings were released last week, revealing that 30% of their revenue is now coming from mobile use.

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How to Use Facebook Groups to Grow Your Business

Later

Facebook Groups are an effective way to create a community, drive engagement, and improve customer relations for your brand or business. Control who is part of your community and create a safe space. Now you’re on your way to building an incredible community!

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[SOLVED] WordPress Gives A HTTP Error When Uploading Images To The Media Gallery

SocMed Sean

It’s my favorite CMS and blogging platform, primarily because of the fact that the community of developers who make themes and plugins for WordPress are amazing. Be sure to share it in a comment! Blogs Featured Mobile Social Media Tech WordPress content management social social media social networking solution tech tips Web Content Management wordpressIf you’ve been around my blog for long, you know I am a bit of a WordPress fanboy.

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Five Signs the Future Belongs to User-Generated Content

Waxing UnLyrical

It’s a landslide: Community creates results. The Harlem Shake depended on community. User-generated content is far better at creating that community. Live event social media generally involves a social media person or standard event-goer using a mobile device to put content online. Now, there are all kinds of devices that allow individuals to put pictures up without having to make comments or even bring up their own social networks.

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Agency Flash Mobs vs Social Flash Mobs

Laurel Papworth

This is an agency created (won ad of the year) flash mob for T Mobile – Saatchi and Saatchi. The comments reflect this on YouTube: UMMM flashmobs are random not so well? End of video – well the comment from YouTube was: “Well done – great venue and looked lots of fun – but flash mobs are a bit yesterday. Camera operators : Anyone willing/able to assist with secretly filming missions, whether it be HDD, hidden cameras or mobile phone uploads. ?

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Social Media News Ticker: Twitter Ad Retargeting, Google ‘+Post Ads,’ Apple Buys Topsy

The Realtime Report

Facebook adds more ‘News’ to News Feed to become more Twitter-like – Facebook is now promoting more ‘real news’ posted by users; the social network’s news-feed algorithm will now expose more links to articles from media organizations — especially on mobile (AdAge). Let us know in the comments below! Social Media News Ticker ad retargeting Apple Facebook Google mobile ads social media analytics Tailored Audiences Topsy Tumblr Twitter

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Instagram’s New Web Profiles: The Value for Brands

Mindjumpers

The 100 million strong photo-sharing community Instagram just launched web based profiles. It allows you to follow users, comment and like photos from a desktop. The Instagram web profiles provide brands with increased exposure as they can now showcase pictures seamlessly with basically everyone, and not only with mobile users operating on smartphone or tablets. In my opinion, Instagram needs to be careful not to alienate their loyal community by mirroring Facebook.

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Best Tips for Successful Social Media and Digital Marketing in 2014

yMarketingMatters

Social media literally is the means by which your business can relate to, exist in and influence human communities. The exponential growth of smartphones and other mobile devices is real. More people are using mobile devices to view Web pages. A recent Skava Consumer Mobile Shopping Survey found that 71 percent of smartphone owners shop using their mobile device. Remember to check how emails display on mobile. Mobile email users are on the increase!

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How to Boost Your Number of Followers on Instagram

Mindjumpers

Visual content allows you to quickly convey the core of your message and with the mobile shift of today’s society, instant photo sharing has become increasingly popular. Interacting with your Instagram community by following, commenting and liking photos will draw attention to your account and make you gain more followers. Comment and like selected followers’ photos. Tweet ??The

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7 Top Personal Branding Goals To Develop Your Social Brand Strategy

Pam Moore

The truth is everything you say, do, post, like, comment on and share is a representation of your brand. Building a personal brand is not just about creating a shiny social profile, but presenting yourself in the most authentic way possible to your community and audiences in a way that will attract them to you organically. Would you like to have customers come to you organically because they know for a fact you can help them achieve their business and/or life goals?

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