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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. Studies show that 67% of constituents want governments to make it easier to interact with digital services. Sometimes a simple graphic is most effective at communicating its message clearly. Facebook Protect.

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Open Community Case Study – American Library Association

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.

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Open Community Case Study – Empowering the Periphery

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.

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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. Studies show that 67% of constituents want governments to make it easier to interact with digital services. Sometimes a simple graphic is most effective at communicating its message clearly. Facebook Protect.

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New Study Finds You Suck

Waxing UnLyrical

The study was listed as one of the bullet points in Academica’s Top Ten , a daily scan of the news stories in Canadian Higher Education. A fine example of this is in an article I read on CollegeWebEditor.com where Rick Stutz, Coordinator of E-Communications at Juniata College, talked about the redesign of the school’s homepage. “It

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Digital grassroots: the Internet fights back

Sherrilynne Starkie

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. People will increasingly seek to influence policy, companies and communities. So that’s what the government did.

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5 Reasons CMOs Can No Longer Own Social Media

Hootsuite

After all, if social media serves primarily as a promotional and communications channel, who else would run it? Hootsuite partnered with the analyst and research firm Altimeter Group to conduct a study of the quantitative value that social offers modern organizations. Our new research reveals it’s time to rethink this assumption.