Ignite Social Media

MAY 21, 2025

Community management is no longer optional. What Is Community Management? Community management is the practice of cultivating and engaging with online communities centered around a brand or organization. Underestimating the power of comment sections to drive conversions and community. Our Take: Dont Just Post.

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Social Media Today

JUNE 17, 2025

YouTube's new shopping button for Shorts will enable custom placement on screen.

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Social Media Strategies Summit

JANUARY 25, 2024

Building a Social Media Community Think about your own network for a second: how many loved ones do you communicate with via multiple platforms? However, it’s important to remember that building a community on social media is tough. You might tag them in a meme on Instagram, email them, and text them — all on the same day.

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Social Media Today

JUNE 23, 2025

X is looking to ensure it doesn't lose sports discussion to Threads.

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Social Media Today

MAY 18, 2025

X has added a new method to detect coordinated notes activity.

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Social Media Today

MAY 29, 2025

The latest insight into Meta's moderation and rule enforcement efforts.

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Social Media Today

MAY 18, 2025

Reddit ic becoming an increasingly valuable driver of purchase behaviors.

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Social Media Strategies Summit

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

View this post on Instagram A post shared by United Way (@unitedway) Their promotional efforts clearly worked, with the benefit concert helping to raise $11+ million for the United Way Disaster Relief Fund to support communities directly impacted by the hurricanes. If the answers yes, slot it into your content calendar.

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Social Media Strategies Summit

JANUARY 15, 2025

For instance, hes a big advocate of joining a community. Jessie Brown is the Social Media and Communications Specialist at the Iowa Department of Natural Resources and was previously a Vice President for the Government Social Media Member Council. Why should you follow him? Jessie Brown Who is she?

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Sherrilynne Starkie

JUNE 23, 2025

Build a Real Community Follower counts are nice, but loyalty is better. One client, a local hospice built meaningful connections, deepened community support, and unlocked surprising opportunities just by being intentional and responsive on social. That said, hashtags aren’t just about reach anymore.

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Social Media Today

MAY 22, 2025

The option will help you reach high-intent shoppers in relevant subreddit communities.

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Social Media Today

JUNE 16, 2025

Reddit has announced a new community insights element , which will enable you to dig into Reddit conversation trends around different topics, so you can get a better understanding of what’s being said about your brand and/or niche. Again, there’s a heap of potential here.

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Sherrilynne Starkie

JULY 7, 2025

But for LinkedIn’s community of professional communicators, the story hit. But when I reshared a news story on Linkedin about how a letter from US Secretary of Education to Harvard was posted online with a bunch of proofreading markup—it racked up almost 70k impressions. For context, most of my LinkedIn posts get maybe 500.

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Convince & Convert

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

These are people who are passionate about a specific interest or community, whether it’s vegan marathon runners or eco-conscious yoga practitioners. Building Trust Through Niche Communities Trust is the cornerstone of marketing success, and niche communities are fertile ground for building it.

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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 29, 2024

In fact, it’s the second most visited website globally, boasting over two billion logged-in monthly users who actively seek information, entertainment, and community. Take it as your long-term marketing strategy to connect with the right audience , build a community, and drive meaningful business results.

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Sprout Social

OCTOBER 10, 2024

A social media network is an online platform that supports communication, interaction and content sharing among individuals and communities. Interactions are less public and flourish in comment sections, direct messages and closed communities. They’re built primarily for communication, connection and content sharing.

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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 23, 2024

Continuity in design maintains brand equity with our community. This minimized any alienation of our existing community of sellers and creatives, while allowing our new brand identity to appeal to a wider audience in the startup ecosystem. We changed our name but maintained a connection to our past identity through design elements.

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Sprout Social

MARCH 12, 2025

Every network offers opportunities for finding and growing your community, because social users use every platform to meet different needs for connection and consumption. For example, Over the next three months, we will use this new platform to grow our community by X%. But maintaining the status quo is a bigger one.

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Oktopost

JULY 21, 2024

Here’s a non-exhaustive list of some of their responsibilities: writing content, creating graphics, managing an active community, monitoring analytics, and keeping up with the latest trends. This dedicated time ensures you stay on top of community management without overwhelming your schedule. The list just goes on. Let’s dive in!

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Sprout Social

MAY 8, 2025

Reddit has long been a pioneer in community-driven conversationswell before social listening became a marketing staple. Since 2005, its evolved into a cultural nerve center with over 100,000 active communities and 22 billion posts and comments, influencing everything from buying behavior to political discourse.

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Sprout Social

MAY 22, 2025

While much of todays content skews commercial, nonprofits have a unique opportunity to return social media to its roots: building community, inspiring action and amplifying human stories. That distinction influences everything from content strategy to community management. That doesnt mean leaving performance behind.

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Hootsuite

JANUARY 14, 2025

Community Managers can only moderate comments and suspend or remove people from the page. Choose the type of team member you want to add and click the relevant Add New button (or Manage for Community Managers). Go beyond posts and think about connections, says Andreea Constantin , head of brand marketing and communities at LearnWorlds.

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Sprout Social

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

This is essential as your social media goals are likely serve the same purpose as your overall marketing goals: to increase brand awareness, engage your community and drive web traffic. The Power of Community: Establish branded Facebook Groups or similar forums to foster a community where customers can connect. Don’t be shy.

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Sherrilynne Starkie

MARCH 3, 2025

I’ll miss the people, the learning, and most of all, the sense of impact—knowing that my work helped raise awareness of their mission and strengthened their position in the community. They understood that meaningful change—raising awareness, educating the community, shifting mindsets—doesn’t happen overnight.

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Buffer Social

JANUARY 13, 2025

Smaller communities will be prioritized Prediction: Creators and their audiences will pursue small, exclusive spaces to interact. She predicts that “spam pages” or private communities will allow creators to maintain control over their content while building authentic relationships away from the scrutiny of brand partnerships.

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Sprout Social

JUNE 3, 2025

Niche communities are powerful because of their more exclusive nature. In the context of social media, a niche refers to a community built around a specific expertise, interest, demographic or other shared characteristics. Are they using social media for community? If so, is it connected to an IRL community too?

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Hootsuite

OCTOBER 18, 2024

Key takeaways While Reddit isn’t a fit for all brands, it offers exciting opportunities for businesses looking to build authentic connections with niche communities. As a Redditor myself, I take pride in being part of a social platform known for its often humor-driven, niche communities (called subreddits).

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Buffer Social

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Community-driven hashtags : These are hashtags like #photographersofinstagram that collate posts from a niche user-base with similar interests on Instagram. Search what community hashtags your competitors are using to associate themselves with a certain clique on the platform. It doesn’t make sense to use hashtags on Stories.

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Social Media Strategies Summit

MARCH 12, 2025

Source: instagram.com Interact with Followers in a Meaningful Way Another excellent way to differentiate your brand especially if you’re looking to emphasize its humanity or dedication to customer experience is to invest in community building. Source: instagram.com Alternatively, you may opt to go all out.

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Social Media Strategies Summit

APRIL 29, 2025

For instance, Amherst College’s key focus is on strengthening the student community and sense of belonging, so its up to Stephanie to demonstrate how her teams content is making that happen. To that end, Stephanie recommends showcasing your content and linking it to your higher education institution s priorities.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 28, 2024

To summarize, they exhibited: Active social listening On-brand community engagement Nimble responses once videos took off, likely thanks to aligned cross-tactical teams and swift leadership decision-making If you need help with being prepared with a Social Media Mission Statement, Guardrails, Community Management best practices and the like, make (..)

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Sprout Social

AUGUST 30, 2024

That’s why it’s a smart move to establish forums or communities to address service questions publicly. Some brands have community forums where users assist each other with their website issues. Most of the content is totally community-driven but employees can step in to resolve problems if needed as well.

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Social Media Today

JUNE 5, 2025

Today, X’s Community Notes team has announced a new experiment that will highlight content which sees agreement from users of differing political perspectives, in the hopes of reducing division and angst in the app. And if you tap through on the “What do you think?” The callout shows based on early and limited Like signals on the post.

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Oktopost

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Tyler also dives into the value of engaging a broader audience, beyond your high-intent prospects and shares why fostering long-term relationships with your community, gives you the ability to ensure your brand stays relevant and trusted throughout the entire buyer’s journey.

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Ignite Social Media

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Most importantly, they actually closed all their stores for the day to allow employees time to volunteer in their own communities. Patagonia went the other way with this post in 2022. It wasnt the social post that was particularly powerful, it was the action backing up the social post that made this work.

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Social Media Today

JULY 2, 2025

Also last year, the Australian eSafety Commissioner requested that X remove video footage of a stabbing incident in a Sydney church , due to concerns that it could spark further angst and unrest in the community. By Andrew Hutchinson and Emma Wiltshire • Nov. By Andrew Hutchinson • Jan.

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Buffer Social

JANUARY 22, 2025

So, whether you're dreaming of becoming the next big TikTok star or building a meaningful community on LinkedIn, I've got you covered. “Community is everything in 2025, and it's integral to building a presence that stands the test of time, especially if you’re looking to build on a busy platform like Instagram.

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