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Celebrating Black History Month: Best practices for celebrating on social media and beyond

Sprout Social

With budget cuts, resignations and layoffs in diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) departments, professionals and consumers alike have noticed a trend in companies backtracking on their social justice commitments made in 2020. Cultural heritage months like Black History Month are a cornerstone to many DEI initiatives for brands.

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When I Couldn’t Find Marketing Outlets to Elevate My Brand, I Created My Own

Buffer Social

When I first started building Diversability with the vision of creating a community of people with disabilities (and the allies who support us) elevating disability pride, I kept encountering roadblocks when trying to get the word out. Now, in 2023, we have 80,000 followers across our social networks and 5,800 in our closed communities.

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Klout, the Super Bowl, and Our Addiction to Shooting the Messenger

Convince & Convert

According to the Indianapolis Super Bowl Host Committee , Klout was used to help identify the participants, and the list was augmented manually with known local bloggers, gadflies, and connectors. I have addressed it below through cmp.ly (which I love, am an investor in, and very much wish the host committee would have adopted).

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Digital grassroots: the Internet fights back

Sherrilynne Starkie

The new law provides a safe harbour to those who create and also those who host that content, for example.”. It started in 2004 when a legislative committee held a series of hearings on digital copyright reform. Hundreds of Facebook groups started cropping up indicating the issue was finding space in local communities.

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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. Others, however, were able to see the opportunities in front of us and worked to determine how we could use social both internally and to communicate with our customers.

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From Shared Databases to Communities of Practice: A Taxonomy of Collaboratories

Buzz Marketing for Technology

From shared databases to communities of practice: A taxonomy of collaboratories. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication , 12 (2), article 16. From Shared Databases to Communities of Practice: A Taxonomy of Collaboratories. Therefore, many projects are assigned a secondary category of Virtual Learning Community.

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Social Pros Podcast – Super Bowl Social Media Command Center

Convince & Convert

Next week’s guest is Scott Monty from Ford Motor Company. We use Argyle Social for our social engagement; we use Infusionsoft for our email; and Jim is our guest host for the podcast and a smart guy). Taulbee’s company put together and is staffing, right now as we discuss this, the Super Bowl Social Media Command Center.